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Illegal Jules Verne Stamps

From: Zvi Har'El <rl~at~math.technion.ac.il>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:36:47 +0200
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Dear Vernian Friends,

In the last two years, the Internet is flooded by sellers of illegal stamps.
Jules Verne theme seems very popular among these illegal issues, and you may
easiily guess why. To fight this flood, the Universal Postal Union (UPU) and
the World Association for the Development of Philately (WADP) have created
a data base, the WADP Numbering System, or the WNS, located in
<http://www.wnsstamps.ch>, which registers all the authentic postage stamps
issued by UPU members since 1 January 2002. I myself became a victim of this
fraud and few of the stamps I bought through Internet sources and present in
my site are indeed fakes. I am not removing them from the site. Instead, I
marked them with a skull and cross-bones, with a link to the data in the WNS,
to say: Beware! Pirates! I feel that still more stamps in my collection should
be marked the same, but I am not sure. The problem is that with these newer
stamps, you cannot check in the established catalogs, and the forgerers count
of this difficulty. Now with the advent of the new data base, I hope it will
be harder to fall in their trap. Please visit
<http://www.upu.int/philately/en/upu_combat.html> to read more about UPU's
combat against illegal issues.

Best,

Zvi.

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Dr. Zvi Har'El      mailto:rl~at~math.technion.ac.il    Department of Mathematics
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                            Monday, 12 Tishri 5765, 27 September 2004, 11:16AM

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