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Re: Illegal Jules Verne Stamps

From: Bernhard Krauth <BGYKRAUTH~at~t-online.de>
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 18:19:27 +0200
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

Dear Zvi, Dear all,

it is good to give such an information to the vernians - not everyone is a "philatelist" and knows about this problem. I knew about it and also about an existing website, but missed the link. So thank you for that. I've never heard about piracy - products of german stamps in recent times, but it is interesting to see that Germany is NOT participating at this site. Poor provement for Germany, but confirming to me again how we are going down the drain...

Best regards

Bernhard
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Zvi Har'El
  To: Jules Verne Forum
  Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 11:36 AM
  Subject: Illegal Jules Verne Stamps


  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
  tel:+972-54-4227607 icq:179294841 Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
  fax:+972-4-8293388 http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/ Haifa 32000, ISRAEL
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                              Monday, 12 Tishri 5765, 27 September 2004, 11:16AM
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