Peter Winter (philately)
Peter Winter ( allegedly * 1941) has become internationally known in the 1990s as in philately stamp counterfeiters.
Work
In the sources, the report of Winters career as a stamp forger, isolated his training and initial work as an opera singer (tenor ) is asserted. It is also alleged that winter would have tried in the 1980s as part of an interdisciplinary study to philosophical- differentiated perspectives of the " collector behavior of people " to reproduce various rarities collections. It is clear that winter in a row " collector memorabilia " collection of different directions created, just as he created various " new stamp rarities " of several philatelic collection areas. He should have often explicitly concerned with collecting pieces that were thought to forge a very heavy, and it also developed novel approaches.
Although the majority of the " Phila- collecting objects" of winter inferior quality is certified and many of its products are referred to as novelties, but individual objects are said to have reached a high level of perfection, so even international experts some " new creations " Winters falsely attested authenticity. An example can be a successful forgery of the Inverted Jenny, a United States airmail stamp with erroneously inverted pressure of an airplane.
Winter is therefore referred to in some publications of philately as " one of the last great stamp forger of international stature ." Although winter no fraudulent intentions could be detected, the stamps produced by him Objects fraudulent activity, as the inscriptions which they identified as a reproduction, were easy to remove and unsuspecting collectors were accordingly simply were cheating. Peter Winter made the American Philatelic Society (APS ) the offer her his hand for a total of one million U.S. dollars to sell and to cease its activity counterfeiters. Although shortly after sanding sales activities winter showed that the association did well advised to turn down Winters dubious deals were found in the relevant sharing networks for many years to fake plants from the production of Peter Winter (so-called winter fakes ).