Peter Winter (philately)

A special was the offering of the four of the most famous stamps of the world, the Mauritius "Post Office", the Penny Black, the Baden 9 Kreuzer error and the British Guiana 1c magenta for 249 DM.

[2] The stamps were offered as reproductions by Winter, but their lack of permanent identification made them easy objects of fraudulent activities targeted at unsuspecting collectors.

Specialists may detect abnormal paper, indentations, lack of watermarks and other signs incongruent with authenticity.

Thus, Heiner Faber, a seller of stamps from Bonn, was convicted for having removed the marks and sold them as originals.

His offer to sell his stamps to the APS for $1 million and stop producing reproductions was declined.