1999 Yugoslavia 'Target' Booklets

In 1999 as part of the Target campaign of protest against Nato bombing of the SRJ stamp booklets were issued containing blocks of definitive stamps from the 1978 Tito and 1975-85 'Towns' sets. These booklets do not bear any indication of being approved by the PTT. The imprimature is that of FD (possibly FDJ) of Beograd.

Does anyone know if this is a purely private output or whether it comes from a government department? And what is FD Beograd?

have seen these before in auction listings, but haven't gotten that far in my collecting to get any, yet. from what I understand, they were indeed unofficial, they use the term "private issue". there are several variations of these, with different cover images as well as different stamps included (I have seen several with the "NATO Target" stamps).

FD Beograd = Filatelia Drustvo Beograd (Philatelic Society Belgrade)

Thanks. There are indeed a variety of others, but most of them contain stamps which are more or less contemporary. It is the fact that these ones are using stamps which predate all the devaluations and revaluations of the hyperinflationary period which interested me. By 1999 the face values would have been back into usable range - assuming the stamps were still 'legal tender'.

Any inside knowledge on that subject? I mean, I presume that 100000 dinar stamps were not usable at face value for posting elephants, because they would have been considered to have a value only as reconverted New Dinars (or whatever the last reconversion was called). By the same token the old stamps in these booklets would technically have a value of a microfraction of a Nano-Dinar. Of course the government would have the power to allow pre-1990 stamps to frank at face value. But did they ever use such a power?

I was sold some of these booklets several years ago, but disposed of them when I discovered they were not an official issue - though they were made to look official with the "FD Beograd" logo being similar to the "Jugomarka" one. The booklets I had contained 10 of the "target" definitive stamps taken from a sheet printing. The cover printing was of very poor quality (possibly photocopied).

Strangely it is the fact that I believed they were not an official issue which persuaded me to buy them. I'm currently preparing a Cinderella Class competition entry on the way that after the breakup of Yugoslavia people in the new states disposed of the masses of surviving unwanted/unusable preinflationary definitives by printing political slogans/symbols on them. I thought these Target booklets would make a good final sheet, showing a slightly different tack - don't overprint the stamps; put them inside a carnet on which you have much more space to print your political message.

Happily it seems to be confirmed that the SRJ government/PTT didn't authorise them: so they are eligible for Cinderella Class.

(Though the Mods will probably smack my legs now for putting the question in the World Stamp Forum rather than the Cinderella...)