Mountain Badakhshan Autonomy

Stamps inscribed Mountain Badakhshan Autonomy are bogus. Just exactly what this place is is a good question. There is an autonomous region in eastern Tajikistan, but that is and has been called Gorno-Badakhshah. It does have mountains. But autonomous does not mean independent and the region continues to use Tajikistan stamps.

There isn't a lot of information on these fakes that first appeared about the year 2000. But there are clues that the issues are clearly bogus. One is the use of the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) logo frequently added to animal topicals produced by the Feigenbaum-related printers now cranking out all kinds of bogus sheetlets and souvenir sheets. We haven't seen the almost-obligatory Boy Scout logo yet, but just you wait. The second is that they are among the offerings of various sellers or aliases that offer bogus "stamps" exclusively, illustrating their sale pages with tiny and/or blurry pictures. 



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