BENIN ILLEGAL STAMPS
2016
Information and Reference of Illegal Stamps for Benin Created in 2016
The following images are of illegal stamps produced for Benin. Please remember that the producers of these illegals are not only greedy,
they are crude and sometimes disgusting which is the nature of these people.
To verify what stamps are real and legitimate for Benin visit the UPU WNS website and look at the Benin section.
The Universal Postal Union WNS website
You can also get a very good reference of what was officially issued from the Colnect website.
The Colnect Online Catalog for Benin
Check out their Illegal Stamp section as well. It is far from complete but will help you verify many as well.
The Colnect Online Catalog for Benin Illegal Stamps
I have also found the StampWorld Catalog an excellent resource.
The StampWorld Online Catalog for Benin
You can also 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.
In 2004 when Benin produced circular 30 they did not know that there were more illegal stamps that were being circulated than what they listed.
This has occurred for many of the victim countries. To correct it I have researched them all using the major catalog listings and the WNS system as
reference to what was officially issued.
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.
Most times now (2019) 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 search terms.
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.
2016
From 2012 forward Benin stopped filing their official stamp issues with the WNS system. The reasons why are unclear. Possibly because they did not
see the system helping to stop the proliferation of fake counterfeit illegal stamps being produced and sold in the name of Benin. Possibly for financial
reasons of which it is costly to to list each issue on the WNS system. For whatever reason(s) the WNS system cannot be used to find the newer official issues
for Benin.
The Colnect online catalog is your best bet now for online access to verify the official issues. We still have conflicts with some of those as many are being listed by
Michel and/or Yvert but not listed by Scott catalogs or Stanley Gibbons. There definitely needs to be some kind of unification of agreement between all the
major catalogs in regards to the official issues for Benin.
In 2016 according to the Colnect catalog for Benin only one official stamp was issued.
Scott Catalog has no listing for this stamp....yet.
Benin 2016 Nonvitcha Association of Grand-Popo 95th Anniversary Michel 1673
Issued May 2016 Printer is Cartor Security Printing
Following are images of the illegal stamps I have found offered for Benin dating 2016. There may and probably are more.
All of these I found in searches on eBay and Delcampe and all are illegal stamps made by producers bent on ripping you off!
I present them in alphabetical order of titles as there is no logical order for illegal stamps.
In 2016 appears to have slowed considerably. Why is anyones guess. Maybe because of the massive glut of illegal stamps produced
in 2014-2015. they had so much they did not need to produce so many in this year. Again I must state that every stamp dating 2016 except the one shown
in the name of Benin is a
COUNTERFEIT ILLEGAL STAMP!
Our current main movers user names on eBay (2019) or attempting movers of these counterfeit illegal stamps are:
eren3049
marlen-stamps
kir30kirill (account suspended November 2019)
Our current main movers user names on Delcampe (2019) or attempting movers of these counterfeit illegal stamps are:
spectre-stamps (account closed.....good!)
philove (account closed.....good!)
mapka
w4stamps
baifeiyun1
I note that some of the user names will change as they are the same people using different accounts. One of many deceptive "tactics" these people use.
We are beginning to reveal what I call "the network". This is a network of dealers worldwide who are directly connected with the producers
or are the producers themselves of illegal stamps. Because of the blatant selling of the most recent counterfeit illegal stamps by these sellers for years
now in my opinion they should be rejected by the stamp community as a whole in all regards. We should not buy anything from them nor even allow
them to remain on the online venues that give them worldwide access to collectors. In other words...let's shut them out of the market!
Anniversaries 2016
2016 Alexander Wilson in Souvenir Sheet of 3
2016 Alexander Wilson in Souvenir Sheet of 1
2016 Baden Powell Scouts in Souvenir Sheet of 3
2016 Baden Powell Scouts in Souvenir Sheet of 1
2016 Baden Powell Scouts in Souvenir Sheets on Fake First Day Covers
You will find most of this Anniversaries series on these fake FDC's. They are worthless!
2016 Bob Dylan in Souvenir Sheet of 4
Russian Made Counterfeit Illegal Stamps being pushed by this kir30kirill aka Topnimarka.com
2016 Bob Dylan in Souvenir Sheet of 2
2016 Bob Dylan in Souvenir Sheets of 1
2016 Elvis Presley in Souvenir Sheet of 4
Russian Made Counterfeit Illegal Stamps being pushed by this kir30kirill aka Topnimarka.com
2016 Elvis Presley in Souvenir Sheet of 2
2016 Elvis Presley in Souvenir Sheets of 1
2016 Emanuel Lasker Chess in Souvenir Sheet of 3
2016 Emanuel Lasker Chess in Souvenir Sheet of 1
2016 Ephraim Shay Trains in Souvenir Sheet of 3
2016 Ephraim Shay Trains in Souvenir Sheet of 1
2016 H.G. Wells in Souvenir Sheet of 3
2016 H.G. Wells in Souvenir Sheet of 1
2016 John Dalton in Souvenir Sheet of 3
2016 John Dalton in Souvenir Sheet of 1
2016 Louis Bleriot Planes in Souvenir Sheet of 3
2016 Louis Bleriot Planes in Souvenir Sheet of 1
2016 Mao Zedong in Souvenir Sheet of 3
2016 Mao Zedong in Souvenir Sheet of 1
2016 Marilyn Monroe in Souvenir Sheet of 3
2016 Marilyn Monroe in Souvenir Sheet of 1
2016 Miguel de Cervantes in Souvenir Sheet of 3
2016 Miguel de Cervantes in Souvenir Sheet of 1
2016 Serguei Korolev Space in Souvenir Sheet of 3
2016 Serguei Korolev Space in Souvenir Sheet of 1
2016 Serguei Prokofiev Music in Souvenir Sheet of 3
2016 Serguei Prokofiev Music in Souvenir Sheet of 1
2016 Simon Lake Submarines in Souvenir Sheet of 3
2016 Simon Lake Submarines in Souvenir Sheet of 1
2016 Stanislaw Lem in Souvenir Sheet of 3
2016 Stanislaw Lem in Souvenir Sheet of 1
End Anniversaries 2016
2016 Chinese Paintings in Souvenir Sheets of 2
Here we have our first "tete-beche" pairs for Benin.
2016 Fidel Castro in Souvenir Sheet of 3
2016 Fidel Castro in Souvenir Sheet of 1
2016 North Pole in Souvenir Sheet of 4
Russian Made Counterfeit Illegal Stamps being pushed by this kir30kirill aka Topnimarka.com
2016 North Pole in Souvenir Sheet of 2
2016 North Pole in Souvenir Sheets of 1
2016 North Pole Planes in Souvenir Sheet of 4
Russian Made Counterfeit Illegal Stamps being pushed by this kir30kirill aka Topnimarka.com.
2016 North Pole Planes in Souvenir Sheet of 2
2016 North Pole Planes in Souvenir Sheets of 1
2016 Olympic Games in Souvenir Sheet of 6
Following are fake counterfeit illegal stamps seemingly a specialty of users spectre-stamps and Philove.
I found they are connected with the Russian counterfeit dealer Topnimarka. Possibly that dealer using different user names?
2016 Olympic Games in Souvenir Sheet of 4
These two souvenir sheets offered long ago by philove (who had his account closed for selling this garbage on Delcampe) are the same
souvenir sheets being offered and sold on eBay (see below) by kir30kirill now! Let's get them!
2016 Olympic Games in Souvenir Sheet of 2
2016 Olympic Games in Rio in Souvenir Sheet of 4
Russian Made Counterfeit Illegal Stamps being pushed by this kir30kirill aka Topnimarka.com
2016 Olympic Games in Rio in Souvenir Sheet of 2
2016 Olympic Games in Rio in Souvenir Sheets of 1
2016 Olympic Games in Rio (different) in Souvenir Sheet of 4
Russian Made Counterfeit Illegal Stamps being pushed by this kir30kirill aka Topnimarka.com
2016 Olympic Games in Rio (different) in Souvenir Sheet of 2
2016 Olympic Games in Rio (different) in Souvenir Sheets of 1
2016 Olympics Speed Skating in Souvenir Sheet of 4
Russian Made Counterfeit Illegal Stamps being pushed by this kir30kirill aka Topnimarka.com.
2016 Olympics Speed Skating in Souvenir Sheet of 2
2016 Olympics Speed Skating in Souvenir Sheets of 1
2016 Polar Explorers in Souvenir Sheet of 4
Russian Made Counterfeit Illegal Stamps being pushed by this kir30kirill aka Topnimarka.com
2016 Polar Explorers in Souvenir Sheet of 2
2016 Polar Explorers in Souvenir Sheets of 1
2016 Soccer in Souvenir Sheet of 1 and a Single Fake Stamp
Being pushed by this mapka character....
2016 Soccer in Souvenir Sheets of 4 and 2
Being pushed by this Philove character. This guy has about the worst illegal stamp products on the market. Get a better printer dude!
2016 Soccer in Souvenir Sheets of 1
Again being pushed by this Philove character. Total Trash!
2016 Soviet Space in Souvenir Sheet of 4
Russian Made Counterfeit Illegal Stamps being pushed by this kir30kirill aka Topnimarka.com
2016 Soviet Space in Souvenir Sheet of 2
2016 Soviet Space in Souvenir Sheets of 1
2016 Space Dogs in Space in Souvenir Sheet of 4
Russian Made Counterfeit Illegal Stamps being pushed by this kir30kirill aka Topnimarka.com
2016 Space Dogs in Space in Souvenir Sheet of 2
2016 Space Dogs in Space in Souvenir Sheets of 1
2016 Space Vehicles in Souvenir Sheet of 4
Russian Made Counterfeit Illegal Stamps being pushed by this kir30kirill aka Topnimarka.com
2016 Space Vehicles in Souvenir Sheet of 2
2016 Space Vehicles in Souvenir Sheets of 1
2016 Spaceships of the USSR and the USA in Souvenir Sheet of 4
Russian Made Counterfeit Illegal Stamps being pushed by this kir30kirill aka Topnimarka.com
2016 Spaceships of the USSR and the USA in Souvenir Sheet of 2
2016 Spaceships of the USSR and the USA in Souvenir Sheets of 1
2016 Year of the Rooster in Souvenir Sheet of 4
2016 Year of the Rooster in Souvenir Sheet of 1
And then came the "heart" style.......
2016 Yuri Gagarin in Souvenir Sheet of 4
Russian Made Counterfeit Illegal Stamps being pushed by this kir30kirill aka Topnimarka.com
2016 Yuri Gagarin in Souvenir Sheet of 2
2016 Yuri Gagarin in Souvenir Sheets of 1
In 2017 the production of illegal stamps in the name of Benin gets worse again.
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References taken from:
WNS Website
Major Stamp Catalogs
Internet Research
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