Not All That Shine Is Philately. Prohibited Emissions
Feb 18, 2024 1:10:46 GMT
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The reference for this information is taken from the Spanish book No todo lo que brilla es filatelia. Emisiones prohibidas (second edition) written by the philatelist Mr.Edgar Abraham Valencia Jiménez,Lima (Peru) 2022
Possibly every philatelist has heard of noxious or prohibited issues and most probably one of those stamps has passed through his or her hands.
After the appearance of the first stamp, in May 1840, and when philately began to gain more followers, the first falsifications appeared (Spain, 1850) with the intention of defrauding the postal services and most probably also to deceive the philatelists. It was also during the 19th century that fantasy issues began to appear, i.e. stamps supposedly from places that in reality did not exist. Stamps of places that did not have postal independence and/or autonomy also made their appearance.
All this was already seen as a problem by philatelists and philatelic organisations who began to organise themselves to discuss measures to be taken on these issues. With the founding of the International Philatelic Federation in 1926, the idea of having lists of so-called "unwanted" issues began to be discussed. In 1950 a first list of so-called "abusive issues" was issued, recommending that they should not be collected and should not be shown at philatelic exhibitions, although such a measure was criticised by some national philatelic federations. In those years the word "noxious" began to be used for such issues, the I.P.F., in its congress held in Amsterdam, changed what was only a recommendation and adopted as a concept that noxious issues are those that are harmful to philately, collectors and prohibited the use of such material in collections and exhibitions.
In recent years, the I.P.F.'s "Commission for the fight against counterfeits and forgeries", responding in particular to the proliferation of illegal broadcasts, has already defined them as and has divided them into three groups, which it has been disseminating since 2014. These groups are as follows:
(a) Fake, Counterfeit and Fancy Broadcasts;
b) Abusive broadcasts and;
c) Illegal broadcasts
1- Counterfeits, forgeries and fanciful issues: It is in this group that we find the oldest banned stamps (forgeries). banned stamps that are the oldest (counterfeits).
a) Counterfeits: These are stamps produced to defraud collectors or postal collectors or postal services. They imitate and/or try to imitate as closely as possible issues that have actually circulated. In this field there have been some very famous counterfeits such as those of Jean Sperati, to mention just one.
b) Fakes: This refers to existing stamps which are modified in order to defraud collectors. collectors. The modality is to simulate rarities through the use of perforations, overloads or cancellations that in reality do not do not exist.
c) Fantasy issues: These are vignettes of countries or places that do not exist and have no philatelic and/or postal value, such as Alderaan or Empire of Atlantium. philatelic and/or postal value such as Alderaan or Empire of Atlantium. Some are made for commercial advertising or political propaganda purposes or are simply privately made. of private manufacture. Their similarity to postage stamps means that they are often sold and bought by philatelists. They are often referred to as " Cinderellas".
2- Abusive issues: These are those that are issued with the characteristics agreed by the I.P.F. at the Philadelphia congress in 1976 to be considered prohibited. at the Philadelphia congress in 1976 to be considered prohibited. In the same way also do not comply with the recommendations of philatelic ethics (philatelic deontology - code of ethics) accepted by the member accepted by the member countries of the U.P.U. and which have been approved and implemented since 2008. implemented since 2008. They are legal issues with franking value as they have been approved by their respective approved by their respective postal administrations but they are not sold by the national philatelic national philatelic services but by agencies or private commercial companies that are often located in other often located in other countries, so in many cases these stamps are not even sold in the country of issue. even sold in the country of issue. Their issuance does not correspond to the domestic domestic postal traffic in the country.
As there is no specific list in force of abusive emissions banned by the I.P.F., their precise identification is difficult, although there are some countries/places whose ban on most of their emissions has been in place (Ajman, Manama, Sharjah, etc.) since the early most of their emissions (Ajman, Manama, Sharjah, etc.) have been banned since the 1960s, in some cases even to the point of In some cases, all their issues have been considered abusive and therefore banned (Ajman, Manama, Sharjah, etc.) since the 1960s. abusive and therefore banned (Mahra, Upper Jafa, etc.).
Some of the countries that currently have emissions that could be considered abusive include: Burundi, Central Africa, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Federated States of Micronesia, Gambia, Grenada - Grenadines, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Mali, Maldives, Mozambique, Mustique (St. Vincent and the Grenadines), Niger, Solomon Islands, Uganda, Union of the Comoros, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo and Zambia. Often what is done with these countries and their issues is to recommend that they should preferably not be used in collections participating in exhibitions and that priority should be given to some issues from the so-called "serious" countries. "serious" philatelic issues.
3- Illegal issues: These are stamps that are fraudulently printed by private companies with the sole purpose of selling them to philatelists, passing them off as real stamps. Passing them off as real stamps. Unlike counterfeits and forgeries, they do not imitate legitimate issues but use the name of places and/or countries that exist and/or that have postal autonomy. For a better classification Richard Gratton of the I.P.F.'s "Commission to Combat Counterfeits and Forgeries" has divided such issues into three types, which are as follows:
a) Type I: These are issues bearing the name and characteristics of the stamps of real countries (Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, etc.), but which have not been of real countries (Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, etc.) but which have not been issued by them or through issued by them or through a contract made by their postal administrations. postal administrations. They are basically identical in all their characteristics to the regular issues of the countries they seek to simulate. of the countries they are intended to simulate. Since 1996, the U.P.U. has been issuing circulars in which it reports on these illegal issues, although for some time now they have not been publicly. They have not been available to the public on its website for some time.
b) Type II: Issues whose information is similar but not identical to that of existing country stamps. stamps of existing countries. Normally the monetary unit varies or there is a small difference with the small difference in the name of the country. It seems that this is intended to deceive philatelists. to deceive philatelists but at the same time to avoid legal implications with the issuing countries, arguing that the existing issuing countries, arguing that since there are differences, it is not strictly speaking an attempt at fraud.
c) Type III: These stamps bear the name of places that exist but do not have postal autonomy or whose independence is not recognised by the majority of countries in the world and/or by the United Nations (Abkhazia, Chechnya, etc.), i.e. they are not countries in the strict sense of the word. In many cases, they are places that do not even have a population (Davaar, Redonda, Staffa, etc.).
The reference for this information is taken from the Spanish book No todo lo que brilla es filatelia. Emisiones prohibidas (second edition) written by the philatelist Mr.Edgar Abraham Valencia Jiménez,Lima (Peru) 2022
Possibly every philatelist has heard of noxious or prohibited issues and most probably one of those stamps has passed through his or her hands.
After the appearance of the first stamp, in May 1840, and when philately began to gain more followers, the first falsifications appeared (Spain, 1850) with the intention of defrauding the postal services and most probably also to deceive the philatelists. It was also during the 19th century that fantasy issues began to appear, i.e. stamps supposedly from places that in reality did not exist. Stamps of places that did not have postal independence and/or autonomy also made their appearance.
All this was already seen as a problem by philatelists and philatelic organisations who began to organise themselves to discuss measures to be taken on these issues. With the founding of the International Philatelic Federation in 1926, the idea of having lists of so-called "unwanted" issues began to be discussed. In 1950 a first list of so-called "abusive issues" was issued, recommending that they should not be collected and should not be shown at philatelic exhibitions, although such a measure was criticised by some national philatelic federations. In those years the word "noxious" began to be used for such issues, the I.P.F., in its congress held in Amsterdam, changed what was only a recommendation and adopted as a concept that noxious issues are those that are harmful to philately, collectors and prohibited the use of such material in collections and exhibitions.
In recent years, the I.P.F.'s "Commission for the fight against counterfeits and forgeries", responding in particular to the proliferation of illegal broadcasts, has already defined them as and has divided them into three groups, which it has been disseminating since 2014. These groups are as follows:
(a) Fake, Counterfeit and Fancy Broadcasts;
b) Abusive broadcasts and;
c) Illegal broadcasts
1- Counterfeits, forgeries and fanciful issues: It is in this group that we find the oldest banned stamps (forgeries). banned stamps that are the oldest (counterfeits).
a) Counterfeits: These are stamps produced to defraud collectors or postal collectors or postal services. They imitate and/or try to imitate as closely as possible issues that have actually circulated. In this field there have been some very famous counterfeits such as those of Jean Sperati, to mention just one.
b) Fakes: This refers to existing stamps which are modified in order to defraud collectors. collectors. The modality is to simulate rarities through the use of perforations, overloads or cancellations that in reality do not do not exist.
c) Fantasy issues: These are vignettes of countries or places that do not exist and have no philatelic and/or postal value, such as Alderaan or Empire of Atlantium. philatelic and/or postal value such as Alderaan or Empire of Atlantium. Some are made for commercial advertising or political propaganda purposes or are simply privately made. of private manufacture. Their similarity to postage stamps means that they are often sold and bought by philatelists. They are often referred to as " Cinderellas".
2- Abusive issues: These are those that are issued with the characteristics agreed by the I.P.F. at the Philadelphia congress in 1976 to be considered prohibited. at the Philadelphia congress in 1976 to be considered prohibited. In the same way also do not comply with the recommendations of philatelic ethics (philatelic deontology - code of ethics) accepted by the member accepted by the member countries of the U.P.U. and which have been approved and implemented since 2008. implemented since 2008. They are legal issues with franking value as they have been approved by their respective approved by their respective postal administrations but they are not sold by the national philatelic national philatelic services but by agencies or private commercial companies that are often located in other often located in other countries, so in many cases these stamps are not even sold in the country of issue. even sold in the country of issue. Their issuance does not correspond to the domestic domestic postal traffic in the country.
As there is no specific list in force of abusive emissions banned by the I.P.F., their precise identification is difficult, although there are some countries/places whose ban on most of their emissions has been in place (Ajman, Manama, Sharjah, etc.) since the early most of their emissions (Ajman, Manama, Sharjah, etc.) have been banned since the 1960s, in some cases even to the point of In some cases, all their issues have been considered abusive and therefore banned (Ajman, Manama, Sharjah, etc.) since the 1960s. abusive and therefore banned (Mahra, Upper Jafa, etc.).
Some of the countries that currently have emissions that could be considered abusive include: Burundi, Central Africa, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Federated States of Micronesia, Gambia, Grenada - Grenadines, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Mali, Maldives, Mozambique, Mustique (St. Vincent and the Grenadines), Niger, Solomon Islands, Uganda, Union of the Comoros, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo and Zambia. Often what is done with these countries and their issues is to recommend that they should preferably not be used in collections participating in exhibitions and that priority should be given to some issues from the so-called "serious" countries. "serious" philatelic issues.
3- Illegal issues: These are stamps that are fraudulently printed by private companies with the sole purpose of selling them to philatelists, passing them off as real stamps. Passing them off as real stamps. Unlike counterfeits and forgeries, they do not imitate legitimate issues but use the name of places and/or countries that exist and/or that have postal autonomy. For a better classification Richard Gratton of the I.P.F.'s "Commission to Combat Counterfeits and Forgeries" has divided such issues into three types, which are as follows:
a) Type I: These are issues bearing the name and characteristics of the stamps of real countries (Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, etc.), but which have not been of real countries (Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, etc.) but which have not been issued by them or through issued by them or through a contract made by their postal administrations. postal administrations. They are basically identical in all their characteristics to the regular issues of the countries they seek to simulate. of the countries they are intended to simulate. Since 1996, the U.P.U. has been issuing circulars in which it reports on these illegal issues, although for some time now they have not been publicly. They have not been available to the public on its website for some time.
b) Type II: Issues whose information is similar but not identical to that of existing country stamps. stamps of existing countries. Normally the monetary unit varies or there is a small difference with the small difference in the name of the country. It seems that this is intended to deceive philatelists. to deceive philatelists but at the same time to avoid legal implications with the issuing countries, arguing that the existing issuing countries, arguing that since there are differences, it is not strictly speaking an attempt at fraud.
c) Type III: These stamps bear the name of places that exist but do not have postal autonomy or whose independence is not recognised by the majority of countries in the world and/or by the United Nations (Abkhazia, Chechnya, etc.), i.e. they are not countries in the strict sense of the word. In many cases, they are places that do not even have a population (Davaar, Redonda, Staffa, etc.).
