Sescal
Sescal was held in Ontario, CA the weekend of October 13. USPCS Member Nick Kirke won a Large Gold medal and the Grand Award for his “The Foreign Mail Cancels of New York City: Their Progression 1845-1877” (also the USPCS Philatelic Classics Society Medal). And Edward Field won the Single Frame Reserve Grand and Large Gold for “Use of $5 Stamps to Pay Registry Surcharges on Transfer of Securities 1933-48” (also the USSS Star of Freedom Award). Ed Field also won a Large Gold medal for “Baltimore Reds: Foreign Mail 1868-1875” (also the Lynne Warm Griffiths Memorial Award).
Other members winning Gold medals included Les Lanphear for both “United States Penalty Clause Mail: The Classic Period” and the single frame “Go: The World’s Oldest Board Game”; and Nick Kirke for his single frame “New York City Foreign Mail Fancy Cancels: 1873-1875.”
Les Lanphear also won a Large Vermeil Medal for “New South Wales Penalty Clause Mail, 1989 to 1902”. Francis Adams won a Vermeil Medal for “The Mesozoic Times – Where Prehistory meets Philately”. And Richard Searing won a Silver Medal for “Washington-Franklin Stamp series (1908-23).
Filatelic Fiesta
The Filatelic Fiesta was held the second weekend on November in San Jose, CA. Paul Allen won the Grand award and a Large Gold medal for “Victorian Outgoing Indian Mail from October 1851-July 1876” (also the AAPE exhibitors Award of Excellence, Plans and Headers; and the George Krieger Award of Merit). Other members winning Large Gold were Alfredo Frohlich for “Columbia: The Last Classic Issue – 1886” (also the APS Medal of Excellence, Pre 1900); and Les Lanphear for “United States Penalty Clause Mail: The Classic Period” (also the USPCS Medal).
A Gold medal and the NSDA Most Popular Exhibit award was won by H. James Maxwell for “Mail from Along the Erie Canal: 1825-1862”. Charles Epting won a Vermeil medal for “French Philatelic Exhibitions, 1919-1929”.
ChicagoPex
ChicagoPex was held the following weekend in Itasca, IL. The Reserve Grand and Large Gold (Felix Ganz Award) was won by Michael Bass for “Foreign Postal Operations in the Holy Land 1852-1914 (also the Society of Israel Philatelists 1st award). Other USPCS members with Large Gold medals were Rob Faux for “Postal History Featuring the 1861 United States 24-Cent Adhesive” (also the APS Research Medal); Hugh Feldman for “The First Four Decades of U.S. Railroad Contract Mails” (also the APS Medal of Excellence, Pre 1900 and the USPCS Medal); Gary Hendren for “St. Louis Street Car Mail 1892-1915” (also the US Cancellation Club Award); and Jim Milgram for “Federal Postal Stationery During the Civil War” (also the Best Exhibit by a Chicago Philatelic Society Member).
Stephen Knapp won a Gold Medal for “Reuse Prevention and the U.S. Stamp Contract of 1877”. Large Vermeil medals were won by Lawrence Haber for “American in 1909 – A Monthly Exploration of a Year that Was”; and Larry Nix for “Hiram E. Deats – Philatelist & Collector Extraordinaire” (also the AAPE Award of Honor).
Vermeil Medals were won by Jim Cate for “Hansom Cab – 10.9 Cent Bulk Rate Coil Stamp – FDI” (also the APS Medal of Excellence, Post 1980; and the AFDCS Award); and Larry Nix for “The American Library Association in World War I”.
Ken Trettin won a Silver Medal for “Customs Cancellations on U.S. Revenue Stamps of the Civil War period.”
In the Literature Competition, James Van der Linden received a Large Vermeil medal for his book “Four Important Exchange Offices handling world’s international postal relations 19th century”. Paul Wijnants received a Gold medal for his book “The Maritime Connections to and from New South Wales before 1876”.
Florex
Florex is the last WSP show of the calendar year, and was held the first weekend of December in Orlando, FL. Alfredo Frohlich won a Large Gold medal for “Colombia – First Perforated Issue” (also the APS Medal of Excellence, pre 1900). Gold medals were awarded to Bill DiPaolo for “The 15 Cent James Buchanan Stamp”, and to Ralph Nafziger for “The 3c 1948 Palomar Mountain Observatory Issue.”
A Vermeil medal was given to Dennis Jackson for “Hawaii Postal Card 1882-1900, Germans in Hawaii” (also the AAPE Gold Award of Honor; and the AAPE Novice Award).
