Sahara Occidental: Stamps V. Cinderellas

I cannot find the following stamps in Scotts catalogues! Are these real stamps or cinderellas?





The Scott 2009 catalogue I have lists Sahara Occidental (Espanol) but they stopped issuing stamps in 1975 when the country was divided between Morocco and Mauritania. Neither of these countries have any issues listed with Sahara Occ. since they took control.

As these stamps have 1991 and 1992 printed on them, then they were printed after the separation. Are they cinderellas or is there an independent state that is not recognised by Scott?

You may find this thread interesting. (I did, even though way outside my era.)

https://goscf.com/t/9338&SearchTerms=rasd

Thanks Cjd, that provides me with the answer....plus lots more interesting stuff.

I regard these as "dune stamps" - RASD is widely recognised and does control a fair sized chunk of the Sahara, but doubt any of their stampos see service out there (but then the many UK miniature sheets aren't for postal use either, so it's a matter of dgeree).

I rather like their stamps - many of them are very well designed - so when I see some that I like, I get them if they are cheap. But they have no real resale value.

Some background history from wikipedia:

"In 1884, Spain claimed a protectorate over the coast from Cape Bojador to Cap Blanc, and the area was later extended. In 1958 Spain combined separate districts together to form the province of Spanish Sahara.

A 1975 advisory opinion by the International Court of Justice on the status of the Western Sahara held that while some of the region's tribes had historical ties to Morocco, they were insufficient to establish "any tie of territorial sovereignty" between the Western Sahara and the Kingdom of Morocco.

In November of that year, the Green March into Western Sahara began when 300,000 unarmed Moroccans converged on the southern city of Tarfaya and waited for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara. As a result, Spain abandoned Western Sahara on Nov. 14, 1975, going so far as to even exhume Spanish corpses from cemeteries. Morocco later virtually annexed the northern two-thirds of Western Sahara in 1976, and the rest of the territory in 1979, following Mauritania's withdrawal.

On Feb. 27, 1976, the Polisario Front formally proclaimed the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic and set up a government in exile, initiating a guerrilla war between the Polisario and Morocco, which continued until a 1991 cease-fire. As part of the 1991 peace accords, a referendum was to be held among indigenous people, giving them the option between independence or inclusion to Morocco.

However, to date the referendum has not been held because of questions over who is eligible to vote."