NIGER ILLEGAL STAMPS
2017

Information and Reference of illegal stamps for Niger Dating 2017

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 in showing all of the abusive Stamperija issues.

The Stampworld Online Catalog for Niger

Here we go!

Many of the following illegal stamps can be found as imperforates as well.
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.

2017

In 2017 the agency Stamperija continues to pump out abusive stamp sets in the name of Niger. In a search on eBay in present time (2020) over 670 listings are again currently running of these abusive issues dating 2017. On Delcampe over 5,400 listings of which almost all are these abusive issues is running! The majority on both sites being offered by a small group of dealers associated with the agency. Several are also notorious illegal stamp dealers. The number of stamp sets produced by this agency in 2017 according to the Stampworld online catalog was a staggering 200 different souvenir sheets again! All of them common topics geared toward topical collectors having nothing to do with the culture or heritage of Niger. Divide them up to individual stamps, (nearly half the souvenir sheets having four stamps on them), you come up with another 500 individual stamps again! So now we have in three years over 600 different souvenir sheets made in the name of Niger. This is completely ridiculous. This is for a country with a population of 22.4 million people in 2018. The majority never using the postal system for anything.
This is why they are called "abusive stamps" and this is why this company is considered by the UPU not a good option for any country to use as an agent.

In 2017 the Russian based dealers who I believe are also the producers gets much worse. The company is called Topnimarka.com located in Moscow Russia.
They have created a new website called stamps-world.eu as well in 2019. Everything they are selling on both sites is fake and counterfeit stamps.
They are mass producing counterfeit illegal stamps in the name of many countries. The "styles" unique to themselves, these people are producing and selling counterfeit stamps at a massive rate dating to current times. They are producing fake stamps for countries controlled by Stamperija. Stamperija's owner has stated that he knows who most of the counterfeit producers are and has some control over stopping their productions at least for countries he has contracts with. This is shown to have happened with Niger on the 2013 abusive stamps page. This is not the case for this producer. Being located in Russia, I guess they believe that nobody can stop them. I am exposing them which is the first step.
I note that Stamperija knows who these people are and what is being produced. Yet even though they know, they are not warning anyone including the postal authorities of the countries this company is distributing counterfeits in the name of that are contracted by Stamperija.

Here is the site that Stamperija diverts you to when you search for "Niger post stamps"

Niger Postage Stamps

You will see a link on the left for Illegal Stamps. Go to it and read the line at the bottom. It states:
"Currently we have no information about illegal Niger postage stamps."



This is a complete understatement and is stated on every country page like this that this agency runs contracts with. The owner knows fully about them. The explanation of what the illegal stamps are is also fully worded to divert what illegal stamps are. They are counterfeit stamps and nothing this stamp dealer owned company or any other stamp dealer states to the contrary is to be believed as you can see they all want the term counterfeit to be avoided at all costs because the selling of counterfeit goods is a crime in any country and thus a punishable offense that can be used to stop the production and sale of them permanently.

The Russian based company has produced the following counterfeit illegal stamps dating 2017 in the name of Niger. They are not commonly seen on the main stamp market because we are fighting for you to keep them off the main market. Should this company be allowed to run accounts on the main stamp venues like eBay and Delcampe, you will see a new flood of illegal stamps worse than ever seen before. This company is consistently trying to create new accounts on the venues to move them into the main stream market. Should you see them on sites like eBay and Delcampe, you can report them to me and I can assure you that they will not be there long!

Illegal Stamps Dating 2017 Disbursed by Topnimarka.com
Республика Нигер Не настоящие Незаконньӏе Штампьӏ по
topnimarka.com Филателистический салон а также stamps-world.eu

In 2017 Topnimarka emboldened by Niger and Stamperija and the UPU doing absolutely nothing to stop them, produce a massive number of souvenir sets that rivals the excessive production of abusive stamp issues Stamperija was doing. This status can change at any time as we have discovered the company has and will create new illegal stamp sets and "back-date" them as if made in prior years.
I note them as such and tell you when they were really created.

As of May 2020 they have made 55 counterfeit illegal stamp souvenir sheet sets. They have created 14 of those sets after 2017 and back dated them by inscribing them with the year 2017. Six of those sets were made in 2020!

2017 Aviation History in the 1950's Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Aviation History in the 1950's Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Aviation History in the 1950's Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Basketball Olympic Games in 2012 in London Kobe Bryant Souvenir Sheet of 4

This set was created in 2020 and back dated 2017. It was never on the market until 2020.

This shows just how evil this producer is. Yet to show how the producer is even more evil than simply creating sets and back dating them, this particular set is even worse. Because of the tragic death of Kobe Bryant this year (2020), this criminal producer created this set which celebrates the year that Kobe Bryant was in the Olympic Games. One of the stamps and the corresponding souvenir sheet is specifically designed with an image of Kobe on them. Yet another example of how crude and disgusting these producers of illegal stamps are. They do not care one bit about the death or tragedy they depict on their counterfeit stamps. They only use the emotions and/or popularity of the death or tragedy to gain as much profit as possible from the counterfeit stamps they produce. As soon as anything like this happens, you can be assured these criminals will run off sets made on the topic and start selling them to unknowing victims almost immediately after the event happens.
A perfect example are the hundreds of Princess Diana counterfeit stamps and souvenir sheets these producers have made and circulated on the market since 1998. Nearly half (if not more) of the Princess Diana stamps on the market are counterfeit illegal stamps! And to this day they are still producing more of them including this Russian clown!

This is why all collectors should avoid stamps depicting topics that are in reference to people and places involved in current tragedies that cannot be verified as genuine. This criminal has taken this even one step farther in back dating the counterfeits to make it look like they were not just recently made because of the death of Kobe Bryant. If you see any stamp dealer selling this set.....run and report them to everyone. This is one of many reasons this criminal needs to be taken down hard and with force!



2017 Basketball Olympic Games in 2012 in London Kobe Bryant Souvenir Sheet of 2

The right stamp is Kobe.



2017 Basketball Olympic Games in 2012 in London Kobe Bryant Souvenir Sheets of 1

The bottom left two souvenir sheets show Kobe.



2017 Beetles Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Beetles Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Beetles Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Birds Parrots Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Birds Parrots Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Birds Parrots Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Boxers in France Souvenir Sheet of 4

Noting that many of the counterfeit sets this company produces are cheaply made photoshop type enhanced images. The producer takes images from magazines or online images (many times copyright images) and puts them in a photoshop type program and then enhances or uses effects to create these really bad looking images on the fake stamps. Why any collector would buy them is a mystery.



2017 Boxers in France Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Boxers in France Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Bridges Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Bridges Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Bridges Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Circus Cirque du Soleil Souvenir Sheet of 4

This set was created in 2019 and back dated 2017. It was never on the market until 2019.



2017 Circus Cirque du Soleil Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Circus Cirque du Soleil Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Civil War in Russia Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Civil War in Russia Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Civil War in Russia Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Cuban Missile Crisis Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Cuban Missile Crisis Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Cuban Missile Crisis Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Dinosaurs Souvenir Sheet of 4

This set was created in 2018 and back dated 2017. It was never on the market until 2018.



2017 Dinosaurs Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Dinosaurs Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Diving at the Summer Olympics in 2016 Souvenir Sheet of 4

This set was created in 2018 and back dated 2017. It was never on the market until 2018.



2017 Diving at the Summer Olympics in 2016 Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Diving at the Summer Olympics in 2016 Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Figure Skating Cong Han and Wenjing Sui Souvenir Sheet of 4

This set was created in 2020 and back dated 2017. It was never on the market until 2020.

This set is the newest back dated set this counterfeit producer has made in the name of Niger. It has appeared on their website as a new edition in mid May of 2020. Snapshots are retained as evidence. This is a new low in quality as you can see. A number of sets made in 2020 are this new style. Noting there is not even a title on the souvenir sheets of four. also notice the value change. All of the fake stamps have a 5000F value on them.

It must be noted that this clown producer cannot even get the names of the skaters right. He has titled it Kong Khan and Wenchlng Sul. On his rip off websites he titles it Kong Khan and Wenohing Sul.



2017 Figure Skating Cong Han and Wenjing Sui Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Figure Skating Cong Han and Wenjing Sui Souvenir Sheets of 1



Here is one of the stolen images used on one of the fake stamps. This clown just Googles them up, copies them, puts them in a photoshop type program and uses one of the "effects" options to make the fake stamp images. Not only the worst illegal stamp producer at present in numbers of counterfeits he is producing, but he is also the laziest and worst designer of them as well!

2017 Figure Skating Cong Han and Wenjing Sui Stolen Image used on Topnimarka Counterfeit Stamps



2017 Football Clubs Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Football Clubs Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Football Clubs Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 George Stephenson Locomotives Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 George Stephenson Locomotives Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 George Stephenson Locomotives Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Great Circuses of the World Big Apple Circus Souvenir Sheet of 4

This set was created in 2020 and back dated 2017. It was never on the market until 2020.



2017 Great Circuses of the World Big Apple Circus Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Great Circuses of the World Big Apple Circus Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Hunting Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Hunting Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Hunting Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Japanese Figure Skating Team Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Japanese Figure Skating Team Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Japanese Figure Skating Team Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Lenin and Stalin Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Lenin and Stalin Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Lenin and Stalin Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Lighthouses Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Lighthouses Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Lighthouses Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Lighthouses (different) Souvenir Sheet of 4

This set was created in 2020 and back dated 2017. It was never on the market until 2020.

This set was not offered on the Topnimarka website with souvenir sheets of 1 as of June 1, 2020. It is possible and probable they will produce them later in this year.



2017 Lighthouses (different) Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Lighthouse Art Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Lighthouse Art Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Lighthouse Art Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Locomotives in Museums Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Locomotives in Museums Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Locomotives in Museums Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Ludwig Van Beethoven Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Ludwig Van Beethoven Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Ludwig Van Beethoven Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Minerals Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Minerals Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Minerals Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Mother Teresa Souvenir Sheet of 4

This set was created in 2019 and back dated 2017. It was never on the market until 2019.



2017 Mother Teresa Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Mother Teresa Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Mushrooms Souvenir Sheet of 4

This set was created in 2018 and back dated 2017. It was never on the market until 2018.



2017 Mushrooms Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Mushrooms Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Napoleon Bonaparte in Art Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Napoleon Bonaparte in Art Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Napoleon Bonaparte in Art Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Napoleon Campaigns Battle of Leipzig Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Napoleon Campaigns Battle of Leipzig Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Napoleon Campaigns Battle of Leipzig Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Napoleonic Wars Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Napoleonic Wars Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Napoleonic Wars Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Nelson Mandela Souvenir Sheet of 4

This set was created in 2019 and back dated 2017. It was never on the market until 2019.



2017 Nelson Mandela Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Nelson Mandela Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 October Revolution in Russia Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 October Revolution in Russia Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 October Revolution in Russia Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Olympic Champions in Rio 2016 Kirani-James Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Olympic Champions in Rio 2016 Kirani-James Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Olympic Champions in Rio 2016 Kirani-James Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Olympic Games in Rio 2016 Women's Field Hockey Souvenir Sheet of 4

This set was created in 2020 and back dated 2017. It was never on the market until 2020.



2017 Olympic Games in Rio 2016 Women's Field Hockey Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Olympic Games in Rio 2016 Women's Field Hockey Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Orthodox Christian Cathedrals Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Orthodox Christian Cathedrals Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Orthodox Christian Cathedrals Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Paintings by Carlo Crivelli Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Paintings by Carlo Crivelli Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Paintings by Carlo Crivelli Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Paintings by Guriy Nikitin Souvenir Sheet of 4

This set was created in 2018 and back dated 2017. It was never on the market until 2018.



2017 Paintings by Guriy Nikitin Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Paintings by Guriy Nikitin Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Paintings by Pierre Auguste Renoir Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Paintings by Pierre Auguste Renoir Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Paintings by Pierre Auguste Renoir Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Paintings by Tintoretto Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Paintings by Tintoretto Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Paintings by Tintoretto Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Polar Aviation Souvenir Sheet of 4

This set was created in 2018 and back dated 2017. It was never on the market until 2018.



2017 Polar Aviation Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Polar Aviation Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Railway Bridges Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Railway Bridges Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Railway Bridges Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Railway Bridges (different) Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Railway Bridges (different) Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Railway Bridges (different) Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Retro Locomotives Collection Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Retro Locomotives Collection Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Retro Locomotives Collection Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Sailing Ships Christopher Columbus Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Sailing Ships Christopher Columbus Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Sailing Ships Christopher Columbus Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Space Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Souvenir Sheet of 4

This set was created in 2019 and back dated 2017. It was never on the market until 2019.



2017 Space Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Space Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Space Apollo-Soyuz Alexei Leonov Souvenir Sheet of 4

This set was created in 2020 and back dated 2017. It was never on the market until 2020.

Noting the spelling of the first name is Alexey on the stamps.



2017 Space Apollo-Soyuz Alexei Leonov Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Space Apollo-Soyuz Alexei Leonov Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Speed Trains Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Speed Trains Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Speed Trains Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Tupolev Aircraft Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Tupolev Aircraft Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Tupolev Aircraft Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Valeriy Brumel 1964 Olympics Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Valeriy Brumel 1964 Olympics Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Valeriy Brumel 1964 Olympics Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang 2018 Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang 2018 Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang 2018 Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang 2018 (different) Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang 2018 (different) Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Winter Olympic Games in PyeongChang 2018 (different) Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 World Cup Soccer 2018 Football Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 World Cup Soccer 2018 Football Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 World Cup Soccer 2018 Football Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 World Cup Soccer 2018 Football Stadiums of Russia Khimki Arena Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 World Cup Soccer 2018 Football Stadiums of Russia Khimki Arena Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 World Cup Soccer 2018 Football Stadiums of Russia Khimki Arena Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 World Cup Soccer 2018 Spain Football Players Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 World Cup Soccer 2018 Spain Football Players Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 World Cup Soccer 2018 Spain Football Players Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 World Cup Soccer 2018 USSR Football Players Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 World Cup Soccer 2018 USSR Football Players Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 World Cup Soccer 2018 USSR Football Players Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 World War II Tanks Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 World War II Tanks Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 World War II Tanks Souvenir Sheets of 1



Again, just like the last page, this one page shows you the extent of damage that one criminal person or group of people can do to the philatelic market. This is why stricter laws, rules and enforcement need to be established against these types of criminal producers and their distributors in which to apprehend and bring them to justice no matter what country they reside in or run to when exposed.

In 2018 this company gets even worse! Topnimarka produces 71 more sets of counterfeit illegal stamps dated 2018 of which 15 sets were produced in 2019 and back dated!

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