The journal of the American Philatelic Society Volume 118
Article by Michael Mills from the Glassine Surfer
http://www.glassinesurfer.com/

Faux Swans

On the forgery front, the Western Australian Forgeries (WAF) site offers a 30-page exhibit of "Forged Swans of Western Australia" by Jeff Trinidad, who was awarded a bronze medal at Swanpex 2002, held at the University of Western Australia.
WAF is one of those sites that invites you to sit down, click, learn, and enjoy. The very simple navigation is thirty thumbnail pictures that lead to large (1276 x 1754).jpg scans from the exhibit, rendering all the stamps in sharp detail and color.
There are dozens of examples of Spiro and Fourier forgeries, as well as a few Peter Winter examples, available for viewing for comparison. The site offers an opportunity to learn and recognize these forgeries, as well as the chance to see an exhibit we most likely would never had had the chance to study. This site also offers a lesson in effective Web design. As all the information is on the exhibit pages, there’s little reason to clutter the presentation with navigation menus, tables, and the like, and such sites provide a refreshing return to non-hyperlinked reading material.

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