Three more WSP shows were held in June and August, and USPCS members won a number of medals. Two of them were specialty shows, proving that Classic collectors do not limit themselves to only classic material.
National Topical Stamp Show
This is the annual show highlighting topical and thematic exhibits. This year, it was held in late June in Milwaukee. At the top of the heap at NTSS were Bill DePaolo, who won the Reserve Grand and Large Gold medal for his ‘The Gentleman from Pennsylvania” and Fran Adams, who won the Single Frame Grand award and Large Gold medal for “The United Nations and Palestine: 1947-1951.
In addition, Larry Nix won a Large Vermeil medal for “America’s Library – The Library of Congress” and a Vermeil medal for “The American Library Association in World War I”. Wayne Youngblood won a Large Vermeil medal for his single frame “Lost Almost: The Los Alamos N.M. Post Office and WWII”.
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This show, held on Indepedence, Ohio in mid-August, highlights First Day Cover exhibits. Receiving a Large Gold Medal was William N. Kelly for “The 3c Iwo Jima Stamp of 1945 and its First Days”. Ralph Nafziger won a Gold medal for his “The 15c 1978 Viking Mars Issue” and Mick Zais won a Vermeil Medal and the Single Frame Grand award for “Hand Crafted First Day Covers for the 1937 West Point 5c Commemorative.”
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This is the largest APS show of the year, and was held in Richmond, Va. in early August. Besides choosing the annual Champion of Champions (won this year by Jim Mazepa), it hosts a very large number of multi-frame and single frame exhibits.
In the Multi-Frame division, winning Large Gold medals were Ken Nilsestuen for “Minnesota Territorial Centennial Stamp – 1949” (also the Award of Merit for Illustrated Mail); Robert Boyd for “Mail from the U.S. to Germany Before the Universal Postal Union” (also the German Philatelic Society award); Tony Dewey for “Swiss Official Stamps for the UNEO and International Agencies” (also the U.N. Philatelists International Gold award); Bill DePaolo for “The Gentleman from Pennsylvania (also the ATA 1st Place award and the Smithsonian NPM Special Achievement award); and Richard Malmgren for “Hawaii Postal Cards” (also the U.S. Possessions Philatelic Society Multi-frame Award).
Winning multi-frame Gold medals were Carol Bommarito for “Adhesive Stamp Usage on Transatlantic Mail to and from U.S. 1840-1875” (also the U.S. Cancellation Club Best Exhibit of U.S. Cancellations); Juan Farah for two exhibits – “The First Perforated Stamp: Great Britain Penny Red Stars 1850-1864” and “The Special Design Issues of Cuba 1899-1910”; Alfredo Frohlich for “Colombia – First Perforated Issue, 1883”; Ken Gilbert for “U.S. Ten Cent Issue of 1861”; and Robert Mayo for “Postmaster and Postal Markings of Richmond, Va.” (also the USPCS Medal).
Winning Large Vermeil medals were Wayne Farley for “Independent State and Confederate Mail of West Virginia 1861-1865”; Leonard Hartmann for “The De La Rue Issues for the Confederate States of America” (also the Confederate Stamp Alliance Award); and Ralph Nafziger for “The 15c 1978 Viking Mars Issue”.
George Kramer won a Vermeil medal for “Telegraphy in the Civil War” and Leslie Butler won a Silver Bronze medal for “Postage Stamps of the Polish Government in Exile 1939-1947”.
In the Single Frame division, Tony Dewey won a Large Gold medal and the Single Frame Reserve Grand for “The “D” Rate Change Stamps of 1985″.
The members winning Large Gold in this division were Chip Gliedman for “Special Mail Routes of the Red River Colony (also the BNAPS Best BNA Research exhibit); and Richard Taschenberg for “The Ten Cent U.S. Envelopes of 1870-1874 (also the UPSS Best Single Frame).
Gold Medals were awarded to Cliff Alexander for his “Confederate States of America 2 cent Rates and Fees: Civil War Postal Challenges; Tom & Jill Hare for “One Cent Postage Rates of Canada’s Once Cent Small Queen 1870-1897”; Bob Hohertz for “Why Was There a 1 Cent Prexie?”; and Bob & Ellen Rose for “Utica, New York’s Handstamped Postal Markings 1798-1855”.
Large Vermeil medals were won by Cheryl Ganz for “Airships Over the Atlantic”; Jessica Rodriquex for “Costa Rica: 1889 Soto Series”; and Steve Washburne for “Portuguese Postal Cards: Empire-Republic Transition 1910–1912”. And Alfredo Frohlich won a Vermeil medal for “Colombia – The Simon Bolivar Centenary Issue of December 17, 1930”.
