UZBEKISTAN ILLEGAL STAMPS
KARAKALPAKIA ILLEGAL STAMPS
O'ZBEKISTON ILLEGAL STAMPS
KARAKALPAKISTON ILLEGAL STAMPS
2000

Information and Reference of illegal stamps for Uzbekistan dating 2000 according to U.P.U. Circulars 70 and 61 and other resources

The Universal Postal Union published the following Circular on March 3, 2003 denouncing illegal stamps at the request of the Postal Administration for Uzbekistan. This Circular was validated by K. J. S. McKeown, Director of Markets of the UPU Secretariat. The circular is number 70. You can view it in the linked file below:

UPU Circular Number 70

Here is what was stated in the circular.

Dear Sir/Madam

The Communications and Information Agency of UZBEKISTAN asks me to inform
you of the following:
"Unidentified individuals have been seeking to discredit our country through the
circulation of illegal postage stamp issues. We have been informed of the appearance
on the philatelic market of counterfeit postage stamps marked
"O’ZBEKISTON". These stamps, whose value is marked in Uzbekistan sums, have
not been issued by the postal administration of Uzbekistan.
"Our administration wishes to make the postal administrations of Union member
countries, the philatelic community and collectors aware of the emergence of these
counterfeit postage stamps, and urges them not to accept these stamps as postal
prepayment or purchase them.
"The postal administration of the Republic of Uzbekistan also asks the postal
administrations of Union member countries to inform their philatelic partners of the
existence and circulation of these counterfeit stamps and exercise vigilance.
"A list of the counterfeit postage stamps is annexed."

Yours faithfully,

K J S McKEOWN
Director of Markets

The circular goes on to describe counterfeit illegal stamp sets inscribed with their country name O’ZBEKISTON.

The Universal Postal Union published another Circular on March 2, 2009 denouncing illegal stamps at the request of the Postal Administration for Uzbekistan. This Circular was again validated by K. J. S. McKeown, Director of Markets of the UPU Secretariat. The circular is number 61. You can view it in the linked file below:

UPU Circular Number 61

The second circular describes counterfeit sets made in the name of Uzbekistan inscribed O’ZBEKISTON and counterfeit sets made in the name of the Republic of Karakalpakistan which are inscribed KARAKALPAKIA, Republic KARAKALPAKIA or KARAKALPAKISTON. The Republic of Karakalpakistan is part of the Republic of Uzbekistan. It does not issue its own postage stamps and has never had authority to have any made ever! No local issues either for those looking to try to convince us any of the following illegal stamps have any sort of legitimate value at all.

This research was difficult to complete namely because of the different country names used by the counterfeiters. The counterfeiters once again are the British producer and his buddies. A few later sets were made by the Eastern European counterfeiters but for the most part it was all done by the British producer. It is quite simple to know this by simply comparing them with all the other counterfeits these clowns made. Yes, the Feigenbaum/Montero bunch. Documented by numerous reports from various countries and sales by the connected group of illegal stamp dealers who have sold and continue to sell these counterfeits to this day, virtually three decades later! They and this needs to be ended....permanently!

Uzbekistan caught onto this late in the game. They did not know nor realize that these clowns were producing counterfeits in the name of Uzbekistan and the Republic of Karakalpakistan since 1991! They started by producing fake overprints in the name of both republics on Russian stamps. What really causes confusion for collectors of this country is that Uzbekistan did have some of the same Russian stamps overprinted!

Uzbekistan was under Russian control until December 1991 when they gained independence. In May of 1992 they issued their first independent postage stamps. Before that they used stamps of the Soviet Union. In 1993 and 1995 Uzbekistan indeed had Soviet stamps overprinted as supplies of the new Uzbeki stamps ran low. The British counterfeiters must have jumped for joy when this happened as it did and still does cause confusion as to what are real and what are counterfeit. These earlier overprint counterfeits have never actually been recognized by collectors because they were made in the name of an independent republic that does not belong to the Russian Federation and were therefore not listed in the numerous Russian Federation circulars of which all of those have been directly connected to Feigenbaum and Montero via numerous countries, dealers and the dossier I found in the National Postal Archives.

These counterfeit illegal stamps, yes counterfeit as noted in the circulars, are everywhere now. They are in collections and dealer stocks all over the world. They are still to this day being proliferated by the same criminals who were involved in the production and proliferation of them them when they were first produced! Anyone selling them should be shunned because either they are selling them with full intent to rip you off or they lack the knowledge because of being too lazy or ignorant to do the research to find out what they are. They are obviously not listed in the major catalogs which is the first and most simple way to know there is something wrong with them. Anyone who is selling them that cannot take the time to do this first check is a bogus seller in my book and is not a seller to be trusted by any means of the word.

I have traced the counterfeits back to 1991 and do believe them to be the first.

To find out what stamps are real and legitimate for Uzbekistan you can first go to their own website and view their catalog of stamps which shows you what was issued from beginning to present time.

The Uzbekistan Post Catalog of Stamps

You can visit the UPU WNS website and look at the Uzbekistan section. Sadly it appears Uzbekistan has not updated there since 2012.

The Universal Postal Union WNS website

I have found the Colnect online catalog to be very helpful as well.

The Colnect Online Catalog for Uzbekistan

Some of the illegal stamps are shown in their Illegal section and noted as such. Still nothing close to what is out there as you will see.

The Colnect Online Catalog Illegal Stamp Section for Uzbekistan: Karakalpakstan

The Colnect Online Catalog Illegal Stamp Section for Uzbekistan

I have also found the Stampworld online catalog to be very useful as well.

The Stampworld Online Catalog for Uzbekistan

Or use a respectable catalog like Scott or Stanley Gibbons. Do not listen to these dealers trying to convince you they are something other than counterfeit illegal stamps.

Here we go!

2000

In 2000 the British counterfeit producer changes course in production of counterfeit illegal stamps in the name of the Republic of Karakalpakistan. He ends the use of the inscription KARAKALPAKISTON completely probably because it was obviously "out of sorts" with relation to the republic. In 2000 only one counterfeit souvenir sheet was made with the inscription Republic KARAKALPAKIA thus ending the use of the word "republic" as well.

In 2000 the criminal produced numerous counterfeit souvenir sheets targeting Uzbekistan as a whole using the inscription O’ZBEKISTON which the Uzbekistan postal administration has and still does use to this day on many of their stamps. The criminal producer and his little mafia who are all persons of greed, seeing virtually no retaliation from Uzbekistan nor the U.P.U. became even more emboldened and saw more profits could be made by creating counterfeit stamps using the main countries name. Many of these caught the eye of the postal administration way too late in the game as the first U.P.U. circular was not published until 2003.

I will again place notes with the illegal stamps that are described in the circulars letting you know which circular the counterfeit sheet(s) are described in.

KARAKALPAKIA 2000 ILLEGAL STAMPS

2000 KARAKALPAKIA Cats Kittens Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 12

These are verified as illegal with many others that follow in the Illegal Stamps section of the Colnect catalog. Some are in conflicting year sections though.



2000 KARAKALPAKIA Dogs Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 12

This one is described and denounced as illegal in U.P.U. Circular 61.

I could not find a good image of this counterfeit sheet anywhere as all of the dealers selling it are using the Avion Stamps website image which is very tiny. Even the image in the Colnect Online Catalog Illegal Stamps section is the same image. On Colnect and on some dealers sales the image is resized larger thus making a "blurry" image just like this one I to have resized. All due to the sheer laziness of the main distributors in upgrading images over the past two decades. I show an example of the original image below the resized one.



2000 KARAKALPAKIA Dogs Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 9



2000 KARAKALPAKIA Elephants Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 9



Here we see the criminal producers true face. The style exactly the same for so many countries. This is Juan Montero's work using the Mayfair International "Security" Printers company in France. A bogus printing company used by bogus "stamp agents" France Philatelie Ltd. and France Philatelie (2000) Ltd. all controlled by this guy. All are now defunct due to lawsuits against them by Niger in the early 2000's. See the Niger section of this study to really learn about this ghoul. You will be shocked!

2000 KARAKALPAKIA Hollywood Movie Stars Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 9



2000 KARAKALPAKIA Julia Roberts Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 9

KARAKALPAKIA REPUBLIC 1999 ILLEGAL STAMPS

This is the last counterfeit souvenir sheet made with the inscription "Republic KARAKALPAKIA". This is listed as a 1998 issue in the Colnect Online Catalog Illegal Stamps section. It is verified as made in 2000 on the Avion Stamps (ex Stampdile) website which has been present for three decades plus, thus placed in the catalog long before Colnect even existed. So which is right? A collector or the major distributor of British made counterfeit illegal stamps?

2000 KARAKALPAKIA REPUBLIC China Beijing Imperial Palace with Mao picture Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 9

O’ZBEKISTON 2000 ILLEGAL STAMPS

As stated above it was in 2000 that the criminal producer started making counterfeit illegal stamps strictly in the name of O’ZBEKISTON. They are the mainly listed counterfeits described in the circulars.

These first two counterfeit illegal stamp souvenir sheets are described in U.P.U. Circular 70 as "Two vertical miniature sheets of six postage stamps each, featuring birds"

2000 O’ZBEKISTON Birds Eagles Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6

This one is described and denounced as illegal in U.P.U. Circular 70.



2000 O’ZBEKISTON Birds Parrots Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6

This one is described and denounced as illegal in U.P.U. Circular 70.



2000 O’ZBEKISTON Chameleons Reptiles Lizards Animals Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6

It was difficult to figure out what "animals" sheet they were describing in Circular 70. I zeroed it in to this one. Again, at present times it is only being offered by Avion Stamps and this time by Newshop2012 on Hipstamps which is obviously another "commissioned" lousy good for nothing illegal stamp dealing dealer located supposedly in Spain. Both this clown and Roger West aka the user rogerpo99 who is Avion Stamps use this same tiny image. Because the image is the one that circulated back in 2003 it is most probable that the Uzbekistan postal authorities not being able to see what was on the stamps clearly gave it the general description of "Animals". I resized it with the original image shown below the resized image.

This one is described and denounced as illegal in U.P.U. Circular 70.



2000 O’ZBEKISTON Chess Pieces Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6

This one is described and denounced as illegal in U.P.U. Circular 70.



2000 O’ZBEKISTON Exotic Fish Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6

This one is described and denounced as illegal in U.P.U. Circular 70.



2000 O’ZBEKISTON History of Trains Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6

One of the following two History of Trains counterfeit sheets is described and denounced as illegal in U.P.U. Circular 61. The other was missed.

Sheet 1


Sheet 2


2000 O’ZBEKISTON Horses Perissodactyla Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 5 Plus Label

This one is described and denounced as illegal in U.P.U. Circular 70.



2000 O’ZBEKISTON Lizards Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6

This one is described and denounced as illegal in U.P.U. Circular 70.



2000 O’ZBEKISTON Marilyn Monroe Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6



2000 O’ZBEKISTON Marine Fish Stingrays Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6



2000 O’ZBEKISTON Seals and Sea Lions Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6

This one is described and denounced as illegal in U.P.U. Circular 61.



2000 O’ZBEKISTON Years of Snake Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6

This one is described and denounced as illegal in U.P.U. Circular 70.



In 2001 the British counterfeit illegal stamp producer and his buddies continue to abuse the stamp world by producing more illegal stamps in the name of Uzbekistan and the Republic of Karakalpakistan. A huge set on the topic of Steam Trains is produced and being massively proliferated to this day in 2021!

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References taken from:
U.P.U. Circular No. 70 and 61
Major Stamp Catalogs
Internet Research

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