A number of stamps (blocks or sheetlets) have appeared on Ebay and in the philatelic trade commemorating the 85th birthday and the death of Pope John Paul II.
THESE ARE ALL FORGERIES
Note the different in************************************ions: Palestinian National Authority instead of the correct The Palestinian Authority,
The missing currency Fils, also the false ordinal 85. and several other errors
The printed postmarks also bear little relation to official first-day cancellations used by the PNA.
Official stamps of Palestine bearing the Pope's portrait were issued in 1995 and 2000. Only these are real postage stamps
!
A number of similar products exist commemorating the Pope's 25th anniversary, first seen in 2003, purporting to be "stamps" from Palestine (note the correct in************************************ions!), Kirgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Rwanda, The Congo, Benin, Tadjikistan, Mauretania, and Côte d'Ivoire. Fellow collector Thomas Schubert showed me examples that were (in my opinion) apparently produced explicitely for the Polish market. Other "states" issueing such fake stamps (apparently by the same graphic designer) include Gagauzia, Tatarstan, Karelia, Mordova, and others
طوابع مزورة تحمل صورة البابا يوحنا بولس الثاني و الرئيس الراحل ياسر عرفات
ظهرت خلال عام 2006
تحمل اسم خاطئ للسلطة الفلسطينية باللغة الانجليزية, كذلك بالنسبة للقيمة
((منقول))
THESE ARE ALL FORGERIES
Note the different in************************************ions: Palestinian National Authority instead of the correct The Palestinian Authority,
The missing currency Fils, also the false ordinal 85. and several other errors
The printed postmarks also bear little relation to official first-day cancellations used by the PNA.
Official stamps of Palestine bearing the Pope's portrait were issued in 1995 and 2000. Only these are real postage stamps
!
A number of similar products exist commemorating the Pope's 25th anniversary, first seen in 2003, purporting to be "stamps" from Palestine (note the correct in************************************ions!), Kirgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Rwanda, The Congo, Benin, Tadjikistan, Mauretania, and Côte d'Ivoire. Fellow collector Thomas Schubert showed me examples that were (in my opinion) apparently produced explicitely for the Polish market. Other "states" issueing such fake stamps (apparently by the same graphic designer) include Gagauzia, Tatarstan, Karelia, Mordova, and others
طوابع مزورة تحمل صورة البابا يوحنا بولس الثاني و الرئيس الراحل ياسر عرفات
ظهرت خلال عام 2006
تحمل اسم خاطئ للسلطة الفلسطينية باللغة الانجليزية, كذلك بالنسبة للقيمة
((منقول))
