Stamperija Ltd stamp catalogue

7,879 items

Stamperija, Vilnius (Lithuania). Publisher, printer and seller of (Post)stamps, manufacture with (post)stamps and non-philatelic products for postal services in mainly poorer and less well-functioning countries. More

Stamperija, Vilnius (Lithuania)

Publisher, printer and seller of (Post)stamps, manufacture with (post)stamps and non-philatelic products for postal services in mainly poorer and less well-functioning countries.

Stamperija has managed to convince several African countries to appoint them as 'Official Postal Service'. In exchange for a handful of papers with the local value on them, they are given a free hand to make unlimited issues, in infinitely large numbers. If 3 years later a certain block or sheet becomes 'out of stock', additional printing is simply done to get the stock back up to standard.

Sierra Leone, with a population of 7.6 million and a barely functioning postal service, issued 1566 different stamps in 2016 using Stamperija.
In comparison, 268 by Britain and 139 by India.

The Solomon Islands, a former British protectorate in the Pacific Ocean ... 1998 civil war, late 2001 bankruptcy, 2002 Hurricane Zoe, 2007 tsunami, 2010 earthquake, ... one of the poorest countries in the Pacific and hit by successive political, food -, fuel and financial crises.
That country, with a population of about 600,000 inhabitants, needs 500 different stamps and 150 different stamp sheets per year (2013 and 2014)? No, but Stamperija does: to defraud the least informed and/or most naive stamp collectors - anywhere in the world.

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Oldest item

Marine life (2000)