UZBEKISTAN ILLEGAL STAMPS
KARAKALPAKIA ILLEGAL STAMPS
O'ZBEKISTON ILLEGAL STAMPS
KARAKALPAKISTON ILLEGAL STAMPS
2006-2010

Information and Reference of illegal stamps for Uzbekistan dating 2006 through 2010 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!

2006

In 2006 after several years of "peace" in the production of Uzbekistan illegal stamps, the Eastern European producers decide to try their hand at it. Sales must not have been very good because they started out with a bang and then withered down to nothing. Of course their "brand" of counterfeits are very crude and poorly designed with little originality....

Most of the following counterfeit stamps I could not find on the internet being sold by anyone on the main venues. Most are only shown in the Colnect Online Catalog Illegal Stamps section for KARAKALPAKIA. I did find a couple though that were sold in the past and not listed there.

I must also note that collectors on the topic of Owls were targeted heavily by these goons! Virtually all of them being shown on the owlsandbooks website as "Cinderella" stamps. I wish people would get it through their heads that none of these are "Cinderella" stamps. They are I say again,
COUNTERFEIT ILLEGAL STAMPS
made with intent to rip you off unlike what real Cinderella stamps are. The criminals behind the production and sales of illegal stamps LOVE IT when you call them Cinderella stamps thus legitimizing the sales of them.
Got it?

KARAKALPAKIA 2006 ILLEGAL STAMPS

Apparently none of these were caught by the postal administration of Uzbekistan. All of these are correctly verified as illegal in the Colnect Online Catalog Illegal Stamps section for Karakalpakistan 2003.

2006 KARAKALPAKIA Dakar Rally Racing Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 15

This one is not listed in the Colnect Online Catalog Illegal Stamps section.



2006 KARAKALPAKIA Hares Rabbits Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6



2006 KARAKALPAKIA Owls Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6



2006 KARAKALPAKIA Owls Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Block of 6



2006 KARAKALPAKIA Sports Cars Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Block of 6

This one is not listed in the Colnect Online Catalog Illegal Stamps section.

KARAKALPAKIA 2007 ILLEGAL STAMPS

2007 KARAKALPAKIA Owls Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6



2007 KARAKALPAKIA Owls Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Block of 10

KARAKALPAKIA 2008 ILLEGAL STAMPS

2008 KARAKALPAKIA Owls Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Block of 6



2008 KARAKALPAKIA Owls Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 2

KARAKALPAKIA 2009 ILLEGAL STAMPS

2009 KARAKALPAKIA Owls Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 12



2009 KARAKALPAKIA Owls Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 8

KARAKALPAKIA 2010 ILLEGAL STAMPS

2010 KARAKALPAKIA Owls Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 9



2010 KARAKALPAKIA Owls Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 4



These were the last counterfeit illegal stamps the criminal Eastern European producers made in the name of KARAKALPAKIA at least....for now.

The reason they stopped is probably because of U.P.U. Circular 61 being published in 2009 which verifies any stamp using the name of the Republic of Karakalpakistan is counterfeit and illegal. Just like the British producer, the Eastern European producers also run and hide.

Expect to see more counterfeits appear in the name of this country in the future as these rats will lay low for years and when they think that all is forgotten and things have "cooled down" on the country being targeted, they will attack again. This is why the countries need to unite and they along with the U.P.U. need to get after these producers and their distributing con stamp dealers and take them down permanently. Punishing them for their deeds over the last three decades and what they are doing now in 2021. The evidence against them is plentiful all over the internet. They cannot hide what they are selling today nor the sales they have already made in the past. It is with certainty that they have evaded their taxes in the countries they reside in, laundered the money they obtain, and continue to work together in a criminal enterprise that needs to be destroyed from the bottom up.

The case is made. It only needs to acted on by the countries themselves.

This ends the study of the Uzbekistan illegal stamps, at least for now. Beware when buying stamps from this country and be exceptionally wary of dealers who sell the illegal stamps in the name of Uzbekistan or the Republic of Karakalpakistan. Punish them by avoiding them no matter what they sell. As long as the dealer or seller is selling any illegal stamps, that dealer or seller should be shunned by everyone and exposed for doing it. Fear no retaliation from these people because in retaliation they will only expose themselves and they will do everything in their power not to do that!

To be continued?

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

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