We had a GREAT Time! Ken Nilsestuen and Ray Beer doing the honors Grand and Large Gold Award The Postal History of Salem, Mass Also GP Award for Best U.S. Exhibit Thomas Allen Award for Best Postal History Exhibit Postal History Society Award Reserve Grand and Large Gold Washington & Franklin Flat Plate and Rotary Press Coils and their Coil Waste Issues from 1910 to 1922 Also United States Stamp Society Statue of Freedom Medal Our Judges Doug Clark, Colin Fraser, Mike Ley, Chief, Matt Liebson, Apprentice, Sam Chiu and Jay Stotts Ken Nilsestuen receiving the Nelson LaGanke Award for club volunteer service from Howard Chapman Good Friends Ken Nilsestuen and Bob Benninghoff Club President Howard Chapman Ken and Steve Suffet
GARFIELD-PERRY MARCH PARTY 2019 PALMARES Grand and Large Gold The Postal History of Salem Massachusetts Garfield-Perry Award for the Best U.S. Exhibit Thomas Allen Award for the Best Postal History Exhibit Postal History Society Award Reserve Grand and Large Gold Washington & Franklin Flat Plate and Rotary Press Coils and their Coil Waste Issues from 1910 to 1922 United States Stamp Society Statue of Freedom Medal Court of Honor New Orleans in the Confederate Mail System Doug Weisz Large Gold Aloha The 80 Diamond Head Stamp of 1952 Jon Krupnick APS Medal of Excellence for 1940-1980 Material Cunard Line: The Ships and Transatlantic Mail 1840-67, Monopoly Years Eigil Trondsen Dale Pulver Award for the Best Foreign Exhibit APS Medal of Excellence for Pre-1900 Material Pioneer Period Expeditions to Greenland Hal Vogel APS Medal of Excellence for 1900-1940 Material APS Research Medal American Philatelic Congress Award
Gold Letters to the Stars! Regis Hoffman AAPE Creativity Award Auxiliary Markings Club Award Scotland Foreign Mail from Unification to UPU Kathy Johnson Using the Documents of Commerce to Fund the Civil War 1862-72 John Lighthouse United States Domestic Letter Rates from the Act of 1792 to Oct. 1, 1883 Robert Meegan Minnesota Territorial Centennial Stamp 1949 Ken Nilsestuen Garfield-Perry Award for the Best Exhibit by an Active G-P Member American First Day Cover Society Award Japan's Wars 1894 1911 Myron Palay Military Postal History Society Award Chicago: House of Blues Roger Rhoads United Postal Stationery Society Marcus White Award U.S. Cancellation Club Best Cancellation Exhibit Toll Gates and Houses - Their Progression on Postcards Bill Schultz Large Vermeil Life on the Lee - Postcards from River Lee, Cork City and Harbor 1900 20 Brian Callan The United States and A Century of Progress Flight Edward Moore Plan for Better Cities: The 1967 Urban Planning Stamp and Its First Day Covers Todd Ronnei AAPE Award of Honor The United States Three Cent Letter Rate
Stephen Suffet AAPE Award of Honor - Epilogue Newfoundland's 1897 Royal Family Issue and 1908 Map Stamp Richard Wilson BNAPS Best British North America Exhibit Award Vermeil United States Women in the Military 1941-1945 (WWII) Robert Collins Christmas Traditions John Fitzsimons AAPE Award of Honor ATA First Medal Silver-Bronze Czechoslovakia s Art on Stamps Series Alan Hanzl Jean Benninghoff Encouragement Award Women Exhibitors Sterling Achievement Award Non-Competitive 2c Circular Die Stationery of 1915 Rocco Caponi Single Frame Large Gold and Grand Great Britain s Greatest Irish Polar Expeditioner Hal Vogel Single Frame Large Gold The e Watermark Definitive Coil Stamps of Ireland 1940 to 1971 Robert Benninghoff German Philatelic Society Special Prize St. Louis Pioneer Air Mail, Oct 4-8, 1911
Gary Hendren Collectors Club of Chicago Philatelic Exhibitor s Award Washington & Franklin Coils Production of the Third Bureau Perforated Flat Plate Issues of 1908 to 1914 The "Special Arrangement" between Liverpool and the U.S. - 1843-1848 United States Philatelic Classics Society Medal Single Frame Gold The Provisional Government of Ireland December 1921 to December 1922 Robert Benninghoff Why There Was a 1½ Prexie Robert Hohertz The Trucial States: Palm Trees and Dhow Series of 1961 Emory Earl Toops Single Frame Large Vermeil Lindbergh Airmail First Day Covers Allen Klein Study of the Small Circular Design Examiner Markings, Type EM-4 and Type EM-5 used at the General Post Office in New York City, 1883 1902 Wayne Schuetz Single Frame Vermeil A Different Type of Postage Due: Israel Compulsory Registration Howard Rotterdam Single Frame Silver-Bronze Snoopy Loves to Get Mail Arthur Cole Nelson Laganke Award for Club Volunteerism Ken Nelsestuen