NIGER ILLEGAL STAMPS
2011

Information and Reference of illegal stamps for Niger Dating 2011

The following images are of illegal stamps produced for Niger. Please remember that the producers of these illegal stamps are not only greedy, they are crude and sometimes disgusting which is the nature of these people.

To find out what stamps are real and legitimate for Niger visit the UPU WNS website and look at the Niger section. Sadly because the system was not online until 2002, it does not help in identifying the early era illegal stamps. It does show from 2002 through 2010 what the official stamp issues were in accordance to what the postal authority said in the circular. One should not buy any other issues unless only paying pennies for them. Again, sadly, the country has gone "rouge" against all UPU guidelines for philatelic best practices in regards to stamp production and issuing. I for one would kick them out of the UPU if they continue on this path. The stamps produced to this day are not anything but made to profit from collectors and are 99% excessive of postal needs. This is why from 2011 to present time....none are listed there.

The Universal Postal Union WNS website

I have found the Colnect online catalog to be very helpful to verify legal stamp issues.

The Colnect Online Catalog for Niger

Check out their Illegal Stamp section as well. It is upgraded as of 2023 and shows counterfeits that may be missing here.

The Colnect Online Catalog Illegal Stamp Section for Niger

I have found the Stampworld.com Catalog to be very helpful as well.

The Stampworld Online Catalog for Niger

Here we go!

Many of the following illegal stamps can be found as imperforates and as color proof sets as well. Many exist on fake First Day Covers too.
Most times now (2020) the souvenir sheet sets and sheetlet sets are sold individually. Many times the stamps have been removed from the sheetlets and souvenir sheets. All of these "tactics" are used to avoid detection by UPU circular descriptions.

Sellers that call these "private", "locals", "Cinderella's", "unauthorized" are deceiving you. They are illegal stamps produced by a stamp dealer that is bent on ripping you off! Some sellers state "we offer them because they are on the market". Well how about you use a different dealer because that seller is "on the market"? If the stamp societies, auction sites and all other venues kicked these sellers off of their sites then they would have to comply or lose their ability to sell anything.

The following images are free for the use of all to use to alert the public to them. If anyone wants to make a public list of users on eBay, Delcampe and elsewhere who are selling these issues....fine by me since the UPU, PWMO and others appear to have given up or have not been updated in years.

If you have purchased any of these stamps from a dealer or if that dealer offers them, you should avoid that dealer! You will only be supporting illegal stamp makers who are only ripping you off.

2011

Niger post has been doing well after the Impressor nightmare that ended in 2002. But in 2011 it all started to go bad for Niger. Throughout the years 2001 through 2010 only "issued" and listed stamps are available online. Then all of a sudden in 2011 new illegal stamps appear. These being the unique style distributed by globalphila (user on eBay) and his associates like Marlen Stamps and others known to sell past and current illegal stamps distributed by this user.

In 2011 Niger officially issued 5 stamps. All the major catalogs are in agreement. The Stampworld online catalog shows them. Oddly enough, the Colnect catalog skips right over the year! Why?

Niger Tourism and Landmarks of Niger
Scott Catalog No. 1119-1123
Issued 2011 Printer is Imprimerie de la Poste Tunisienne


Niger Salou Djibo General of the Corps
Scott Catalog No. 1124
Issued 2011 Printer is Imprimerie de la Poste Tunisienne


It is therefore understood that any stamp dating 2011 in the name of Niger other than the stamps shown above is a counterfeit illegal stamp!

Try to find the following listed by any catalog and you will find they are not there. Of course to this day the ones distributing them are the same counterfeit illegal stamp dealers distributing the older Niger illegal stamps.

2011 Albert Einstein Souvenir Sheet of 2



2011 Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster Souvenir Sheet of 2



2011 First American in Space Alan Shepard Souvenir Sheet of 2



2011 Fridtjof Nansen Polar Explorer Souvenir Sheet of 2



2011 International Year of Chemistry Souvenir Sheet of 2



2011 London Olympic and Paralympic Games (2012) Souvenir Sheet of 2



2011 Pope John Paul II Souvenir Sheet of 2



2011 Space Yuri Gagarin and Vostok 1 Souvenir Sheet of 2



2011 Xinhai Chinese Revolution Sun Yat-sen and Mao Zedong Souvenir Sheet of 2



2011 Year of the Dragon (2012) Souvenir Sheet of 2

Topnimarka Russian Made Counterfeit Stamps Back Dated

In 2019 the company Topnimarka.com based in Russia was discovered to be producing a massive number of counterfeits in the name of many countries. This company has made an extensive number of counterfeit illegal stamps in the name of Niger. We have since discovered that this rotten to the core company has been producing illegal stamps in recent years and back dating them as if made in earlier years.
So far they have only created one set dating back to 2010. A much more detailed explanation on this company will be found on the 2015 page which is when this company actually started producing counterfeit stamps in the name of Niger. I present the 2010 counterfeit set on this page.

2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver Souvenir Sheet of 4

This set was created in 2017 and back dated 2010. It was never on the market until 2017.



2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver Souvenir Sheet of 2



2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver Souvenir Sheets of 1



In 2012 it gets much worse. A new counterfeiter gets involved....

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