It is my pleasure to reveal that a new exciting partnership between this website and Magan Stamps website http://www.maganstamps.co.uk/
Magan Stamps is a trusted website for buying stamps that I have tried personally. I have also heard from a lot of happy customers and I think the prices on that website are very reasonable.
I get a lot of emails from users regarding where to buy Iraqi stamps from, well now I can advice all users to purchase their stamps from Magan Stamps.
You can visit the Iraq stamps page on Magan Stamps by visiting the link above in the navigation or click here. Remember to mention iraq-stamps.com when you purchase items from the website.
Please remember when you leave our website to go to the Magan Stamps website you are entering a new website with a different owner. This means that if you have any problems or enquiries you would use the communication methods on Magan Stamps.
It’s been a while since I wrote an update, this is to let you guys know that the shop area of this website is now closed, you will not be able to purchase any item or view the page any more, this is because I only have a few items left and I need to improve the whole way you buy stuff.
I will probably auction the remaining items from the shop on ebay and I will post links to these items here on this website.
Thank you to everyone who has bought from me before, you have contributed to keep this site alive and updated.
Hopefully I will create more interesting content in the future, time is an issue at the moment for me.
This is always interesting, an old 1960s label/stamp to collect funding for the palestinian resistance, I have featured one of the stamps in this post, this is another one which I have not seen before, it is on eBay at the moment, I recommend this purchase.
I have noticed that the same Bogus Iraq FDCs I reported about here, are being sold again on eBay by the user 4wstamps which I featured in a previous post
Try to avoid these items.
Due to the artistamps I have running out, I have completely changed the shop items for sale. The stamps are now only sold in collections, I only have 3 items for sale at the moment
- 24 sets of artistamps (the most complete collection I have now)
- 22 sets of artistamps
- 15 sets of artistamps
have a look.
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Well I don’t know whether to be happy or sad, I guess I am more happy at this news.
I see a new set of stamps issued by the Iraq Postal Authority called No To Terrorism, and they are very similar to the designs of the artistamps I made in a set called “NO”.
See for your selves
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Iraq-stamps.com artistamps issue

I have been monitoring this user’s items for some time now and I have found the same junk being sold by this user as the other users that I have mentioned on this website.
Please be aware that stamps which have colours changing or missing, or parts of stamps missing are at the most forgeries and at the least deliberately introduced actions or damaged stamps, they are not genuine errors as such.
Examples being sold today by this seller include


these are very easy changes to the stamps, there are a number of methods to achieve this including exposure to sun light for some time, or using diluted bleach or other techniques which are more sophisticated.
The user has the following line in his adverts, All the items I list is authentic and there is no forgeries, I always stand behind the items I sell, which is a dangerous thing to say.
I challenge this user to find any authority which will verify the authenticity of these errors. The sad situation is that he is selling them for a lot of money.
There are other items that he is selling that are very suspecious but I will not list them here because if someone is trying to sell these stamps then I will not trust any item from them any more.
Thanks to all the people that bought the FDCs from the shop over the months that passed.
All the FDCs have now been sold, and there will not be made again, so please do not ask for them as I genuinely do not have any more.
This will be the case with the artistamps themselves soon, so if you need to buy for yourself or a second spare set please do so quickly.
I need to update the shop area to reflect the changes, I do not have all the artistamps shown in the shop area, if you buy something I do not have then I will refund the money to you or offer you something different.
I do not have any plans for more artistamps, but if you have any new ideas for stamps subjects, use the contact form (see the link in the navigation, top of this page) to get in touch.
This is an article I stumbled on while doing a bit of research into stamps forgery, things like fading and change colours in stamps. It is from the Telegraph newspaper but its an old interesting story.
Here is the link.
Here is the translated story in Arabic
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Well the answer is yes, here are the statistics which I have collected from eBay today:
On the UK eBay site, there are less than 150 philatelic items for sale with any Iraq connection. Of those, only 10 have bids at this moment. That’s a 7% chance of anyone bidding on an item.
On the USA eBay site, there are less than 350 philatelic items for sale with any Iraq connection, only 35 have bids at this moment. That’s a 10% chance anyone bidding on an item.
On the Australian eBay site, there are less than 30 philatelic items for sale with any Iraq connection, NONE have bids at this moment. That’s a 0% chance anyone bidding on an item.
In my experience, these are the worse figures for a long time and shows a remarkable slowdown.
The slowdown could be the result of a number of reasons, one of them is eBay fees especially with such a low successful sale rate as mentioned above. The second reason would be that the items themselves are not of interest or good quality, there is a lot of rubbish being advertised, especially fake errors which are not worth the paper they are printed on. The third reason maybe the un-reasonable prices that sellers are charging for items.
But I believe the main reason is that there are less buyers at the moment because after all, stamps collecting is an expensive hobby and the cost of living is rising sharply and people would not be able to sustain their hobby demands any more.