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Simpsons Postage Stamps Illegal Items China Created and Maintained by Bruce Gomes Sr. |
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This page documents known issues of illegal China Simpsons postal items. If you know of any issues not documented within, have any additional information about these issues or have any questions please feel free to write! |
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Commemoratives (2009) |
Postal Cards (2009) |
First Day Covers (2009) |
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Other Official (2009) |
Art Prints (2009) |
Special Postmarks (2009) |
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Other Countries |
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Australia (2005) |
Romania (2004) |
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Kyrgyzstan (2000) |
Mauritania (2003) |
Soviet Republics (1999, 2001) |
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Congo (2004) |
China (2009) |
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Illegal Stamps
Any stamp not authorized by an issuing country is illegal, including those purporting to be from territories of larger countries. For a complete explanation and set of definitions around illegal stamps see our Notes page. |
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Countries that are the subject of illegal stamps will traditionally issue circulars through the Universal Postal Union. The entries below are linked to the applicable circular where appropriate. Circulars may refer to the problem in general from the applicable country or may refer to the specific illegal stamp issue. |
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China Illegal Issues These are legal postal cards from China Post sold by an independent seller with various illegal Simpsons images. |
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China Illegal Postal Card
Denomination: .80 Size: 17.0 cm (H) x 12.6 cm (W) Dated: 2009 [the legal postal card] This particular item is an official China Post postal card (with the correct and current pre-printed postage) with copyright Simpsons images printed on them, making this an illegal use of Simpsons image on a legal China Post postal card. While it doesn't fall into the category of illegal stamps we nonetheless wanted to document the existence of this item for the sake of completeness. Generic postal cards unfortunately are often poorly documented and not noted on the China Post, Michaels or Postal Union sites, although I hope to find this in the Scott Catalog some day. Note of course that I know of no postal authority that documents issues other than those currently on sale. Ironically, the printing is apparently done on a high quality colour printer (as in printing photographs) but the images themselves were poorly chosen, and are almost always truncated in odd ways. A "set" consisted of ten postal cards with ten different images. Lastly, this is only included here because it's printed on a postal card (issued with postage by a postal authority) and not just a postcard, of which there are hundreds, including illegal postcards. |
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| Back to Index |
Definitions, Notes & Thanks! |
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United States | ||
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Commemoratives (2009) |
Postal Cards (2009) |
First Day Covers (2009) |
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Other Official (2009) |
Art Prints (2009) |
Special Postmarks (2009) |
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Other Countries |
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Australia (2005) |
Romania (2004) |
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| Illegal Issues (purporting to be from:) | ||
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Kyrgyzstan (2000) |
Mauritania (2003) |
Soviet Republics (1999, 2001) |
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Congo (2004) |
China (2009) |
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Simpsons images on these stamps are, naturally, TM & copyright Fox and its related companies and were not authorized for use on these stamps. The logo for the Universal Postal Union is © Universal Postal Union and not authorized by the Universal Postal Union.. even if we endorse and commend their activities. The China Post postal card, issued by the State Postal Bureau, is TM & copyright 2009 by China Post and not authorized for use here. |
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