UZBEKISTAN ILLEGAL STAMPS
KARAKALPAKIA ILLEGAL STAMPS
O'ZBEKISTON ILLEGAL STAMPS
KARAKALPAKISTON ILLEGAL STAMPS
2002

Information and Reference of illegal stamps for Uzbekistan dating 2002 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!

2002

In 2002 the British counterfeit producer and his distributors continued producing illegal stamps in the name of Uzbekistan and the Republic of Karakalpakistan. This time they went overboard creating a huge set of Marilyn Monroe counterfeits along with another "off the wall" subject on Jimmy Carter. What attracted the attention of the Uzbekistan postal authorities was the sets of counterfeit souvenir sheets on the topic of trains that they produced and were madly distributing in 2002 as train collectors were probably asking about the legitimacy of them. This caused the publication of U.P.U. Circular 70 in 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 2002 ILLEGAL STAMPS

All of these are correctly verified as illegal in the Colnect Online Catalog Illegal Stamps section for Karakalpakistan 2002.
Noting that some of the images are only found on the Avion/Stampdile website and are very bad images. Even the Colnect catalog is using them. Certain clown illegal stamp dealers like this member389845 on Delcampe are enlarging the same image thus it is very blurry. Sadly, because I can only find the images exclusively being shown by these same ghouls, I have to use them here....for now. Should you have a better image, please let me know and I can "upgrade" it.

2002 KARAKALPAKIA Buffy the Vampire Slayer Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheets of 12

Sheet 1


Sheet 2


2002 KARAKALPAKIA Jimmy Carter Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 12

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



2002 KARAKALPAKIA Pope John Paul II Visit in Poland Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 12



2002 KARAKALPAKIA Quo Vadis Movie Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheets of 12

Sheet 1


Sheet 2


2002 KARAKALPAKIA The Beatles Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 12

O’ZBEKISTON 2002 ILLEGAL STAMPS

Only one of the Impressionists counterfeit souvenir sheets is verified in the Colnect Online Catalog Illegal Stamps section for Uzbekistan 2002. None of the Marilyn Monroe counterfeit souvenir sheets are in there at all!

Marilyn Monroe

These are described and denounced as illegal in U.P.U. Circular 61. They got the counterfeit souvenir sheets of one but missed the souvenir sheets of nine!

2002 O’ZBEKISTON Marilyn Monroe Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheets of 9

Sheet 1


Sheet 2


Sheet 3


The criminal British producer made color proof sets of these counterfeits as well. They are just as worthless as the counterfeit sheets themselves because they are color proof sets of
ILLEGAL STAMPS.
Of course being exclusively sold by Avion Stamps and crew at a whopping 60 GBP. Not worth 60 cents!

2002 O’ZBEKISTON Example of Marilyn Monroe Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 9 Color Proof Set



2002 O’ZBEKISTON Marilyn Monroe and Walt Disney Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheets of 1

All of the souvenir sheets of 1 have white borders around them. Most of the images I retained are from the source who has a tendency to cut the borders off on the images he displays on his criminal sales.

Sheet 1


Sheet 2


Sheet 3


Sheet 4


Sheet 5


Sheet 6


Sheet 7


Sheet 8


Sheet 9


Sheet 10


Sheet 11


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Sheet 13


Sheet 14


Sheet 15


Age of Impressionism

These are described and denounced as illegal in U.P.U. Circular 61.

All of these souvenir sheets also have white borders around them. Most of the images I also retained are from the source who has a tendency to cut the borders off on the images he displays on his criminal sales.

2002 O’ZBEKISTON Paintings Impressionists Alfred Sisley Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6



2002 O’ZBEKISTON Paintings Impressionists Berthe Morisot Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6



2002 O’ZBEKISTON Paintings Impressionists Camille Corot Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6



2002 O’ZBEKISTON Paintings Impressionists Camille Pissarro Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6



2002 O’ZBEKISTON Paintings Impressionists Claude Monet Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6



2002 O’ZBEKISTON Paintings Impressionists Edgar Degas Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6



2002 O’ZBEKISTON Paintings Impressionists Edouard Manet Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6



2002 O’ZBEKISTON Paintings Impressionists Eugene Boudin Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6



2002 O’ZBEKISTON Paintings Impressionists Frederic Bazille Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6



2002 O’ZBEKISTON Paintings Impressionists Georges Seurat Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6



2002 O’ZBEKISTON Paintings Impressionists Gustave Caillebotte Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6



2002 O’ZBEKISTON Paintings Impressionists Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6



2002 O’ZBEKISTON Paintings Impressionists Henri Matisse Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6



2002 O’ZBEKISTON Paintings Impressionists Mary Cassatt Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6



2002 O’ZBEKISTON Paintings Impressionists Paul Cezanne Renoir Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6



2002 O’ZBEKISTON Paintings Impressionists Paul Gauguin Renoir Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6



2002 O’ZBEKISTON Paintings Impressionists Pierre Auguste Renoir Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6



2002 O’ZBEKISTON Paintings Impressionists Vincent van Gogh Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6



These were the last counterfeit illegal stamps the criminal British producer made in the name of O’ZBEKISTON.

In 2003 he made one more set on the topic of the Pope in the name of the Republic of Karakalpakistan before slithering down his rat hole. This is because the postal authorities of Uzbekistan were now onto him and as usual when the circulars are published he runs away and "hides".

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

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