Stamp catalog : Stamp › Tifalmin Hunter

Country:: Indonesia, West Irian: Illegal Stamps
Series:: Free Papua: Scenes from Papuan Life
Catalog codes:: Dai Nippon ID-PM 117-05
Overprints:: Click to see overprints and surcharges
Themes:: Hunting | Men | Weapons
Issued on:: 1978
Size:: 37 x 26 mm
Colors:: Multicolor
Designers:: Richard Bates
Printers:: Courvoisier (Helio Courvoisier) S. A.
Format:: Stamp
Emission:: Illegal
Perforation:: comb 11¾
Printing:: Photogravure
Paper:: coated, granite
Face value:: 10 c - Australian cent
Description:: Papua New Guinea postage stamp of 1974 with bogus overprint "O.P.M." in black, supposedly produced by the Organisasi Papua Merdeka (OPM, Free Papua Movement)

The overprint was allegedly produced for use on local courier mail in OPM-controlled areas around the Indonesia-Papua New Guinea border, but there is no evidence that such a courier service ever existed. In 1979, the Papua New Guinea Postal Administration declared these overprints to be illegal and invalid for postage.
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