ANGOLA ILLEGAL STAMPS
2000

Information and Reference of illegal stamps for Angola according to U.P.U. Circular 406 and other resources

On September 25, 2000 the postal administration for Angola by request to M.S. Ramon (Assistant Director-General for the U.P.U.) posted to the Universal Postal Union a circular warning of the discovery of a large number of illegal stamps created with their country name that are on the market. The circular is number 406. It states the following.

Dear Sir/Madam

The postal administration of ANGOLA asks me to inform you of the following:

"Our administration has been informed of the existence of several sets of illegal postage stamps issued by three companies located in Belgium, Great Britain and Lithuania.

"We would like to point out that all the stamps produced by these companies in the name of our country are illegal and that their circulation does harm to the Angolan and international postal services and to collectors. A list of the postage stamps concerned is given in the annex.

"The illegal issue of these postage stamps is contrary to the provisions of the Detailed Regulations of the UPU Convention and to the laws of the Republic of Angola. These fake postage stamps must not therefore be accepted as a means of postal prepayment."

Yours faithfully,

M S RAMAN
Assistant Director-General

Information about the sheetlets

Type of issue Denomination of stamps Subject of stamps
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Flora: roses 2x
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Animals: fish 2x
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Flora: bonzai 2x
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Animals: Cats 2x
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Flora: flowers
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Flora: cactus 2x
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Animals: Eagles
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Animals: birds
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Animals: lions
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Animals: butterflies
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Animals: panda
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Flora: mushrooms 2x
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Trains of Angola 2x
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Animals: gorillas 2x
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Trains of Angola 2x
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto 2x
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto 2x
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Animals: dogs
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Animals: swans
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Animals: turtles
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Animals: owls
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Animals: bees
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Animals: dinosaurs
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Trains of Angola
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Flora: flowers
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Flora: roses
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Flora: Mushrooms
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Flora: Bonzai
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Flora: Flowers
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Flora: mushrooms
Sheetlet 2500000 NKz (6 stamps) Millennium 2000
Sheetlet 2500000 NKz (9 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 2500000 NKz (4 stamps) Millennium 2000 - Centenary of the film
Sheetlet 2500000 NKz (9 stamps) Papal visit
Sheetlet 2500000 NKz (6 stamps) Personalities of the 20th century
Sheetlet 950000 NKz (2 stamps) Cardinal John O'Connor
Sheetlet 2500000 (9 stamps) Cardinal John O'Connor

The circular describes numerous souvenir sheets that were found to be on the market in 2000. The majority of the counterfeits described are all dated between 1998 to 2000.

The Scott catalog has a noting on more of them as well. One set was actually listed until it was discovered that the set was also counterfeit illegal stamps.
You can find the note in the 1999 section of the catalog. It states the following:

The Flora and Fauna stamps, formerly Nos. 1067-1078,
were not authorized by Angola postal authorities.
Other items inscribed "Angola" that were not authorized
but which have appeared on the market include sheets
with the themes of Disney and History of Animation,
Millennium, Animals, Trains, Flora, Muhammad Ali & Lennox Lewis,
Bruce Lee, Albert Einstein / Moon Landing, Elvis Presley and other entertainers,
Great Personalities, John Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe,
Martin Luther King Jr., Payne Stewart, Colin Montgomerie,
Babe Ruth, Cardinal John O'Conner, Pope John Paul II / Mother Teresa,
and Queen Elizabeth II / Winston Churchill.

Many more have been produced at that time and since that time. Most of the illegal stamps described are still on the market today in 2021. They are available through private stamp dealers and their websites. They are available on eBay and Delcampe. They are everywhere! These illegal issues are fabrication of stamps that have never had any postal validity in Angola and have been denounced as fraudulent. They were and are created by certain greedy, unethical and immoral stamp dealers. Any stamp seller out there that offers these "stamps" either does not know they are illegal stamps or is deceitful and they should be avoided at all costs. The deceitful ones prey upon unknowing collectors new and old. They prey upon topical collectors mostly because the majority do not have the knowledge that they are worthless in the stamp market. Some are quite obvious because they have hundreds of lots available on eBay and other public auction venues.

If they are selling this junk then avoid them!
Even if they have legitimate stamps for sale. Buy from sellers that do not have these in their offerings. If you are buying legitimate stamps from them you are still supporting the illegal stamp trade because they are supporting it. Tell them that you do not want to buy from them because they sell illegal stamps. There is no excuse to make them available to anyone.

The following images are of illegal stamps produced for Angola. 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 Angola visit the UPU WNS website and look at the Angola section.

The Universal Postal Union WNS website

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

The Colnect Online Catalog for Angola

Check out their Illegal Stamp section as well. There are many listed there including many new ones not listed on my site.

The Colnect Online Catalog for Angola Illegal Stamps

I have also found the StampWorld Catalog an excellent resource.

The StampWorld Online Catalog for Angola

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 illegal stamps.

Here is a link to the Scouts on Stamps Societies page verifying some of the Angola 2000 illegal stamps with Scout related logo's and images. Some were not listed in the circular nor in the Scott catalog. Look at the "Class D" section.

Scout and Guide Issues 2000

Here we go!

Many of the following illegal stamps can be found as imperforates and as color proof sets as well. Some exist on fake First Day Covers too.
Many times now (2021) 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 and researchers like myself.

Sellers that call these "private", "locals", "Cinderella's", "unauthorized" are deceiving you. They are counterfeit 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.

2000

A note on the denominations.
On December 13, 1999 Angola devalued its currency, with approximately 1,000,000k being the equivalent of 1k after the devaluation. Therefore any "stamp" dating 2000 and beyond having value denominations in the form of millions is a counterfeit illegal stamp!
These criminal producers did not "catch on" to that fact before producing many of the following illegal stamps and placing them on the market.

In 2000 the British producers continue the onslaught of illegal stamp production in the name of Angola. This time creating a massive surge of illegal stamps. All being produced in numerous styles, formats and varieties. All should be avoided.

There are tons of these illegal stamp souvenir sheets, color proofs, imperforates, deluxe sheets and so forth. Way too much to show everything. They have been sold to thousands of collectors worldwide and are still being offered by many dealers to this day in 2021. Please view the 1999 page to see just a small sample list of who is selling this junk.

This page will be a long one.....

2000 Albert Einstein and the Moon Landing Souvenir Sheet of 1

This souvenir sheet is noted in the Scott catalog.

There are a number of this style of souvenir sheet which are noted as what I call "combo" souvenir sheets in the Scott catalog. This one being noted as "Albert Einstein / Moon Landing".



2000 Albert Einstein Person of the Century Souvenir Sheet of 6



2000 Annika Sorenstam World No. 1 Souvenir Sheet of 1



2000 Art Legacy of the Past Souvenir Sheet of 6



2000 Bees Souvenir Sheet of 6

This Souvenir sheet is noted in Circular 406.



2000 Birds Souvenir Sheet of 6

This Souvenir sheet is noted in Circular 406.



2000 Birds of Prey with Scouts Logo Souvenir Sheet of 9

This Souvenir sheet is verified on the Scouts on Stamps Society website as being illegal.



2000 Birds of the World with Scouts Logo Souvenir Sheet of 9

This Souvenir sheet is verified on the Scouts on Stamps Society website as being illegal.



2000 Bonzai Trees Souvenir Sheets of 6

These Souvenir sheets are noted in Circular 406.

How many collectors got ripped off at the Bangkok 2000 Stamp Exhibition with these? How many more since then?



2000 Bruce Lee Souvenir Sheet of 1

This souvenir sheet is noted in the Scott catalog.



2000 Butterflies Souvenir Sheet of 6

This Souvenir sheet is noted in Circular 406.



2000 Butterflies with Scouts Logo and Baden Powell Souvenir Sheets of 9

These Souvenir sheets are verified on the Scouts on Stamps Society website as being illegal.



2000 Cactus Souvenir Sheet of 6

This Souvenir sheet is noted in Circular 406.

Noting that all current sales of this counterfeit set are either in this form as block of 6 without the selvage or being sold broken into single stamps. Somebody went through a lot of work removing the outer selvage to try to hide their original form as being described as sheetlets in the circular! It appears only fake CTO versions are available. Avoid!



2000 Cardinal John O'Connor Souvenir Sheet of 9

This Souvenir sheet is noted in Circular 406.

Noting the circular also describes a sheetlet of 2. I could not find it anywhere. Destroyed? If so....good!



2000 Cats Souvenir Sheet of 6

This Souvenir sheet is noted in Circular 406.



2000 Cats Souvenir Sheets of 1

These Souvenir sheets are verified on the Scouts on Stamps Society website as being illegal.





2000 Chess Souvenir Sheet of 4



2000 Colin Montgomerie Stamp

This stamp is noted in the Scott catalog.

Noting this illegal stamp comes from the "Great People" sheet which is shown below. At the time the Scott Catalog note and the circular was made, only a small portion of what had been created by the counterfeit producers had been seen and verified. The full "Great People" souvenir sheet was obviously "missed" at that time.



2000 Derek Jeter Baseball Souvenir Sheet of 12 Plus 4 Labels

There are a number of this "style" of souvenir sheets depicting different personalities. Any that look like this in the name of Angola are counterfeit!



2000 Derek Jeter Baseball Souvenir Sheet of 1



2000 Dinosaurs with Scouts Logo Souvenir Sheet of 9

This Souvenir sheet is verified on the Scouts on Stamps Society website as being illegal.



2000 Dinosaurs Souvenir Sheet of 6

This Souvenir sheet is noted in Circular 406.



2000 Dinosaurs Souvenir Sheets of 1



2000 Dogs of the World with Scouts Logo Souvenir Sheet of 9

This Souvenir sheet is verified on the Scouts on Stamps Society website as being illegal.



2000 Dogs of the World with Scouts Logo Souvenir Sheet of 9 on Fake First Day Cover

This Souvenir sheet on FDC is verified on the Scouts on Stamps Society website as being illegal.

It is noted on the Scouts on Stamps Society website that many of the FDC's with illegal stamp souvenir sheets dating 2000 are canceled with the year 2001. Because everything is counterfeit including the cancelling device used we go by the year on the illegal stamps rather than what these criminals want to say on their garbage First Day Covers. The bottom line is to avoid any of them and avoid the dealers that want to rip you off with them.



2000 Dogs of the World with Scouts Logo (Wild Dogs) Souvenir Sheet of 9

This Souvenir sheet is verified on the Scouts on Stamps Society website as being illegal. It is referenced as "Wild Dogs".



2000 Dogs Souvenir Sheet of 6

This Souvenir sheet is noted in Circular 406.



2000 Dogs with Scouts Logo Souvenir Sheets of 1

These Souvenir sheets are verified on the Scouts on Stamps Society website as being illegal. They are referenced as "Pugs".




2000 Eagles Souvenir Sheet of 6

This Souvenir sheet is noted in Circular 406.

Again selvage removed like the Cactus set above.



2000 Eagles Souvenir Sheet of 1



2000 Elvis Presley and Other Entertainers Souvenir Sheet of 1

This souvenir sheet is noted in the Scott catalog as "Elvis Presley and other entertainers".



2000 Ferrari Formula I Drivers Souvenir Sheet of 9



2000 Ferrari Formula I Drivers Souvenir Sheet of 9 on Fake First Day Cover

Again the fake cancel is dated for 2001.



2000 Ferrari Formula I Race Cars Souvenir Sheet of 9



2000 Fish Souvenir Sheet of 6

This Souvenir sheet is noted in Circular 406.

Flowers

In Circular 406 you can see that there are a number of Flowers sheetlets are listed in a "general" statement (flowers or ditto) It is possible that several are "repeat" listings. Here I place all the "general" flower related illegal stamps I found. Others probably exist.

2000 Flowers Souvenir Sheets of 6






2000 Golf Grand Slammer Souvenir Sheets of 3



2000 Gorillas Souvenir Sheet of 6

This Souvenir sheet is noted in Circular 406.



2000 Great People of the 20th Century Souvenir Sheet of 9

All of the stamps from this souvenir sheet are used on the souvenir sheets of one like the Elvis Presley souvenir sheet shown above. Many noted in the Scott Catalog.



2000 History of Animation Souvenir Sheets of 9

These souvenir sheets are noted in the Scott catalog.





2000 John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe Souvenir Sheet of 1

This souvenir sheet is noted in the Scott catalog as "John Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe".



2000 Legends of the 20th Century Souvenir Sheet of 6



2000 Lions Souvenir Sheet of 6

This Souvenir sheet is noted in Circular 406.



2000 Lions Souvenir Sheet of 1



2000 Martin Luther King Jr. Souvenir Sheet of 1

This souvenir sheet is noted in the Scott catalog.



2000 Michael Jordan Basketball Souvenir Sheet of 12 Plus 4 Labels



2000 Michael Jordan Basketball Souvenir Sheet of 1

Millennium

I stated on the 1999 page that Angola did issue one souvenir sheet on the topic of the Millennium. All other Millennium related stamps and souvenir sheets dating 1999, 2000, and 2001 are counterfeit illegal stamps. Here is an image of the genuine souvenir sheet.

2000 Millennium Genuine Souvenir Sheet of 17 Plus 1 Label Sc 1150



2000 Millennium 2000 Souvenir Sheet of 9

This Souvenir sheet is noted in Circular 406.

The criminal producers simply took an individual illegal stamp from the 1999 "Countdown to the Millennium" sheets and combined them into this one souvenir sheet.



2000 Millennium 2000 Souvenir Sheet of 9 (New Design)

They then proceeded to make a new souvenir sheet using the commonly used what I call Mayfair International style of sheet with the 1999 style illegal stamps on it. See the Niger section of the study to understand.



2000 Millennium 2000 Souvenir Sheet of 4

They then proceeded to make new souvenir sheets of 4 inscribed "Millennium 2000". Here is one example.



2000 Millennium 2000 Souvenir Sheet of 1

They then proceeded to make new souvenir sheets of 1 using the 1999 style of single stamp souvenir sheets inscribed "Millennium 2000". Here is one example.



2000 Millennium 2000 Century of Film Souvenir Sheet of 4

This Souvenir sheet is noted in Circular 406.



2000 Muhammad Ali and Lennox Lewis Souvenir Sheet of 1

This souvenir sheet is noted in the Scott catalog and described as "Muhammad Ali & Lennox Lewis".



2000 Mushrooms Souvenir Sheets of 6

These Souvenir sheets are noted in Circular 406.

The count is four but I could only find three. Possible another exists or the circular has a "repeat" error.





2000 Music of the 20th Century Souvenir Sheet of 4



2000 Owls Souvenir Sheet of 6

This Souvenir sheet is noted in Circular 406.



2000 Owls Souvenir Sheets of 1






2000 Pandas Souvenir Sheet of 6

This Souvenir sheet is noted in Circular 406.



2000 Papal Visit Pope John Pail II Visit to Holyland Souvenir Sheets of 9 and 1

The Souvenir sheet of 9 is noted in Circular 406 described as "Papal Visit".

All of the illegal stamps on the souvenir sheet of 9 have been produced on single stamp souvenir sheets like the one shown.



2000 Parrots Souvenir Sheet of 6

This Souvenir sheet is noted in Circular 406. It is one of the souvenir sheets described as "Birds".



2000 Payne Stewart Stamp

It is possible this stamp is the one referenced in the Scott Catalog notes. More than likely it is the 1999 issue though. Either way both are counterfeit illegal stamps so it does not matter. This illegal stamp is from the Sports Legends souvenir sheet shown below.



2000 Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa Souvenir Sheet of 1

This souvenir sheet is noted in the Scott catalog and described as "Pope John Paul II / Mother Teresa".



2000 Queen Elizabeth II and Winston Churchill Souvenir Sheet of 1

This souvenir sheet is noted in the Scott catalog and described as "Queen Elizabeth II / Winston Churchill".



2000 Roses Flowers Souvenir Sheets of 6

These Souvenir sheets are noted in Circular 406.

The circular lists 3 souvenir sheets of 6 with roses (two listed at top area and one listed at lower area) but I could only find these two. It is possible they are also listed as "flowers" in the circular as a duplicate listing.

How many collectors got ripped off buying these at the London 2000 Stamp Exhibition? How many are still being ripped off to this day in 2021?



2000 Russell Crowe Gladiator Souvenir Sheets of 1

I found the full set of these to be pretty much exclusively sold on the Avion Stamps website aka rogerpo99 on Hipstamps. This is where I got the images from. No souvenir sheet with all six on it that I could find.



2000 Sports Legends Souvenir Sheet of 6



2000 Swans Souvenir Sheet of 6

This Souvenir sheet is noted in Circular 406.



2000 Tiger Woods Golf Souvenir Sheet of 9

Trains

You can see in circular 406 there are a lot of sheetlets listed on the topic of Trains. A count of 15 total. I could only find 10 different souvenir sheets of 6 so there may and probably are more.

2000 Trains Souvenir Sheets of 6

These Souvenir sheets are noted in Circular 406.












2000 Trains Souvenir Sheets of 1

I found these being exclusively offered on the Avion Stamp website as well.



2000 Turtles Souvenir Sheet of 6

This Souvenir sheet is noted in Circular 406.



2000 Wayne Gretzky Hockey Souvenir Sheet of 12 Plus 4 Labels



2000 Wayne Gretzky Hockey Souvenir Sheet of 1



2000 Wild Cats with Scouts Logo Souvenir Sheets of 9

These Souvenir sheets are verified on the Scouts on Stamps Society website as being illegal.




The production of illegal stamps in the name of Angola by the British producers rages on in 2001.

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References taken from:
U.P.U. Circular No. 406
Major Stamp Catalogs
Internet Research

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