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Stamps printed in excessive quantities

According to an article in the Philatelic Webmaster Organization, some companies that have printed stamps on behalf of poor countries (especially in Africa) are printed in excessive quantities aimed at collecting.

Stamps are only apparently approved by local postal administrations,

The article mentions in particular

many stamps and leaflets related to minerals, from countries such as Chad, Comoros, Mali, Niger, Congo , 

Burundi, Guinea Rep., Guiné Bissau Rep.,

Solomon Is., S.Tome & Prince, Togolaise Rep.....

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Therefore since December 2015 no longer updated images of stamps of the these country.

They are printed without glue and high prices.

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Black number = Scott catalog​

Blue or  red number = Yvert et Tellier catalog

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Minerals

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Image	Country	Year	Subject	Yvert	Set
	Artsakh Rep. ex Nagorno Karabakh	2018	Various minerals​	Cind	8 val
	Gambia	2015	Various minerals and gems	5595-5600	6 val
	Gambia	2015	Various minerals	5601-5604	4 val
	Gambia	2015	Rhodocrhosite	BF 865	1 val
	Guiné Bissau	2021	Fluorite	BF	2 val
	Kazakhstan	2020	Various minerals	901-906	6 val
	Liberia	2020	Various minerals and gems	6193-6198	6 val
	Liberia	2020	Fluorite, Emerald	BF788	1 val
	Moçambique	2015	Various minerals	6722-25	4 val
	Moçambique	2015	Various minerals	BF 1007	1 val
	Moçambique	2016	Minerals and Volcanoes	6842-45	4 val
	Moçambique	2016	Minerals and Volcanoes	BF 1037	1 val
	Moçambique	2016	Minerals and Volcanoes	7486-7489	4 val
	Moçambique	2016	Minerals and Volcanoes	BF 1198	1 val
	Moçambique	2017	Various minerals	7258-7261​	4 val
	Moçambique	2017	Various minerals and Pyrite	BF 1141	1 val
	Moçambique **	2018	Various minerals	7922-25​	4 val
	Moçambique **	2018​	Anglesite and various minerals	BF 1307​	1 val
	St. Vincent & Grenadines	2016	Various minerals	Multi	6073-6076
	St. Vincent & Grenadines	2016	Quartz v. Amethyst	BF 764	1 val
	S.Tomè & Principe	2016	Various minerals and Volcanoes	5435-5438	4 val
	S.Tomè & Principe	2016	Various minerals and Sakutajima V.	BF 960	1 val
	S.Tomè & Principe	2016	Various minerals	5275-77	4 val
	S.Tomè & Principe	2016	Quartz v. amethist	BF 920	1 val
	S.Tomè & Principe	2017	Various minerals	Multi	5617-5620
	S.Tomè & Principe	2017	Various minerals	BF 1003 ​	1 val
	Solomon Is.	2013	Various minerals and Volcanoes	Multi	2008-2011​
	Solomon Is.	2013	Various minerals and Volcanoes​	BF 253	1 val
	Solomon Is.	2014	Various minerals​	Multi	2340-2343​
	Solomon Is.	2014	Various minerals​​	BF 336	1 val

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Meteorites

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Image	Country	Year	Subject	Yvert	Set
	Guinè-Bissau	2021	Various meteorites	n.c.	3 val
	Guinè-Bissau	2021	Meteorite Campo del Cielo	BF	1 val
	Guinè-Bissau	2021	Siderite	BF	1 val
	Guinè-Bissau	2021	Meteorite Canon Diablo	BF	1 val

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Gems and Jewels

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Image	Country	Year	Subject	Yvert	Set
	China Rep. Pop.	2017	Carving Jade	5425	5425-5427
	Liberia	2020	Ruby rough	6194	6193-6198
	Liberia	2020	Sapphire Rough	6196	"

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