Sarasota National Stamp Expo Palmares February 7-9, 2020

HOSTING: American Society China Stamp Society Society for Czechoslovak Philately Polonus

JURIES:

Philatelic Literature

Stephen Reinhard, Chief Judge Alan Warren, Chief Judge Mineola, New York Exton, PA Edwin Andrews Nancy Clark Chapel Hill, NC Marstons Mills, MA Raymond Pietruszka Hal Vogel Madison, AL Willingboro, NJ Charles Wooster Naples, FL Ed Kroft Vancouver, BC Rick Gibson, Apprentice Fredrick, MD

Sarasota National Stamp Expo PHILATELIC PALMARES

February 7-9, 2020

Pan American Clippers Conquer the Pacific: Grand Award John Krupmick August 1933 to December 31, 1941 Reserve Grand Award Mark Schwartz The New York Provisional Access Routes for Africa-US Airmail to the U.S., Single Frame Grand Robert Hisey WWII

Pan American Clippers Conquer the Pacific: AAMS Grand Award John Krupmick August 1933 to December 31, 1941 Paul Chang Chinese Rates During the Post-War Chinese National H. James Maxwell Award Currency Era Postal Rates During the Gold Yuan Era: The Best Exhibit of China Hugh Lawrence Chinese Hyperinflation of 1948-1949 Rates During the Chinese Silver Yuan Currency Chia Nan Chapter Award (Los Angeles) Tom Massa Era James R. Lee Memorial Award H. James Maxwell Imperial & Republic of China Official Postal Seals Republic of China (Taiwan) Chapter Postal Rates During the Gold Yuan Era: The Hugh Lawrence Award Chinese Hyperinflation of 1948-1949 Polonus Philatelic Society Award for Best Warsaw Postal Administration: First and Second James Mazepa Polish Exhibit Provisional Issues Alphons Mucha Medal for Best Trials and Tribulations with Czechoslovakia's Ludvik Z. Svoboda Czechoslovakia Exhibit Hradcany 1918-1920 Haiti and the West Indian Aerial Express: 1927- AAPE Award of Honor (1) Peter C. Jeannopoulos 1928 AAPE Award of Honor (2) Dawn R. Hamman Campanulas - Bells of the Garden

AAPE Creativity Award Cheryl R. Ganz Zeppelins & the United States AAPE Exhibiting Excellence Award The R-100, 1930 Airship Flight from to Raymond Simrak (Epilog) Canada and Return Czechoslovakia's Philatelic Exhibition Souvenir AAPE Benninghoff Award Alan Hanzl Sheets of 1937 and 1938 The Era of the Perforated Stamps Under the American Philatelic Congress Award Daniel Montes Spanish Dominion in (1867-1898) Hawaii Engraved Postage Stamps Issued 1864- APS Pre-1900 Medal of Excellence Jeffrey R Erichson 1893 Washington and Franklin Flat Plate Coils and APS 1900-1940 Medal of Excellence Gregory Shoults Coil Waste Issues 1908-1914 APS 1940-1980 Medal of Excellence William Fort Wartime Pacific Airmail Routes 1939-1947

APS Research Award Octavio Cabrera Postal Cards of Cuba 1878-1898 United Society Marcus Octavio Cabrera Postal Cards of Cuba 1878-1898 White Award Cyprus: King George VI Definitives Used in Postal History Society Award J.A. (Jack) Forbes Making Up Postage Rates of Air Letters United States Philatelic Classics Society Mark Schwartz The New York Postmaster Provisional

United States Possessions Philatelic Jon Krupnick Aloha! The 80c Diamond Head of 1952 Society Award United States Stamp Society Statue of Washington and Franklin Flat Plate Coils and Gregory Shoults Freedom Award Coil Waste Issues 1908-1914 Women Exhibitors Sterling Achievement Philately at the Movies: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Thomas Richards Award (MGM) Postal History China's Non-denominated Domestic Air Letter COURT of HONOR Hugh Lawrence Sheets

LARGE GOLD Cheryl R. Ganz* Zeppelins & the United States 95 Hawaii Engraved Postage Stamps Issued 1864- Jeffrey R Erichson 92 1893 Production and Use of the Polish Air Mail Issue of Robert Ogrodnik* 90 1946 Rates During the Post-War Chinese National H. James Maxwell 91 Currency Era Jon Krupnick* Aloha! The 80c Diamond Head of 1952 95 Washington and Franklin Flat Plate Coils and Gregory Shoults 96 Coil Waste Issues 1908-1914 William Fort* Wartime Pacific Airmail Routes 1939-1947 94 Warsaw Postal Administration: First and Second James Mazepa 94 Provisional Issues H. James Maxwell Imperial & Republic of China Official Postal Seals 91

Mark Schwartz The New York Postmaster Provisional 96

Octavio Cabrera Postal Cards of Cuba 1878-1898 93 The Era of the Perforated Stamps Under the Daniel Montes 91 Spanish Dominion in Cuba (1867-1898) Postal Rates During the Gold Yuan Era: The Hugh Lawrence 93 Chinese Hyperinflation of 1948-1949 Santiago Cruz The 1917 Perkins Issue of Colombia 93 Pan Am Clippers Conquer the Pacific: August Jon Krupnick* 96 1933 to December 31, 1941 Access Routes for Africa-US Airmail to the U.S., Robert Hisey* 90 WWII

GOLD David Crotty# Wake Island Mail, Transportation and Patriotism 85 Cyprus: King George VI Definitives Used in J.A. (Jack) Forbes# 87 Making Up Postage Rates of Air Mail Letters Ronald J. Klimley The 1966 Polish Millennium Stamp 86

Alfredo Frohlich# SCADTA Airmail 1929-1931 86 Rates During the Chinese Silver Yuan Currency Tom Massa 86 Era Dawn R. Hamman Remembering Lincoln 88

Peter C. Jeannopoulos Haiti's 5c Nord Alexis Stamp of 1904 85 Salute to the U.S.S. Shenandoah: America's First Allen Klein# 86 Giant Rigid Airship Serge Khan# Thor Solberg's Odyssey 87 Window Clerk Equipment Markings Used at the Wayne Schuetz 85 GPO in NYC, 1880-1911

LARGE VERMEIL Stephen S. Washburne^ Portuguese Commercial Airmail Rates 1934-1945 83 The USS AKRON & USS MACON Airships in C. R. (Bob) Helms^ 80 Florida and the Caribbean: 1933-1934 Trials and Tribulations with Czechoslovakia's Ludvik Z. Svoboda 80 Hradcany 1918-1920 Millard Mack^ The 6c Transport Goes to War 83 Haiti and the West Indian Aerial Express: 1927- Peter C. Jeannopoulos^ 83 1928 Ukraine's Trident-Overprinted Russian Revenue Mark Stelmacovich 81 Stamps of Podilla and Usage: Years 1918-1919 Landplanes Shoulder the Transatlantic Mail: Daniel Gribbin^ 81 French South Atlantic Airmail 1934-1940 Dawn R. Hamman Campanulas - Bells of the Garden 82

The First Commemorative Issues of VERMEIL Richard G. Palaschak 76 Czechoslovakia Expressions of Grief: The Development and Use of James A. Buckner Masaryk Mourning Stamps, Cancels, and Covers 77 from Czechoslovakia The 24c Jenny Airmail Stamp, 100th Anniversary Arnold Wasserman^ 75 of U.S. Airmail Service, Then and Now

Ronald J. Klimley The 1968 United Nations Headquarters Stamp 78 The R-100, 1930 Airship Flight from England to Raymond Simrak^ 77 Canada and Return

Philately at the Movies: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's LARGE SILVER Thomas Richards 73 (MGM) Postal History Czechoslovakia's Philatelic Exhibition Souvenir Alan Hanzl 73 Sheets of 1937 and 1938 Janet R. Klug Britain: Isles of England and Wales 72

College and University Postal History 1820s to SILVER BRONZE Roger Waivio 61 1910

* Also received American Air Mail Society Large Gold # Also received American Air Mail Society Gold ^ Also received American Airmail Society Vermeil Sarasota National Stamp Expo & Writers Unit 30 LITERATURE PALMARES

February 7-9, 2020

New Plate Flaw Discovery: "Dash & Chronicle of U.S. Classic Postal Grand Award Dr. Charles DiComo Ink Trail" on 3¢ 1851 Stamp Issues Bristol Packet's "NEW YORK" Reserve Grand Award Robert G. Rose Handstamp: Was it Applied in London The London Philatelist or New York? Bristol Packet's "NEW YORK" Postal History Society Robert G. Rose Handstamp: Was it Applied in London The London Philatelist Award or New York? Analysis of Poland General Duty Dr. Edwin J. APS Research Award Revenue Tax Rates and Effects of The American Revenuer Andrews Hyperinflation, 1921-1924 Collectors Club of Sarasota Award for Cheryl Ganz Transcontinental Zeppelin Posts The Congress Book Treatment

New Plate Flaw Discovery: "Dash & Chronicle of U.S. Classic Postal LARGE GOLD Dr. Charles DiComo 91 Ink Trail" on 3¢ 1851 Stamp Issues

Cheryl Ganz Transcontinental Zeppelin Posts The Congress Book 90 Anthony F. Dewey On the Trail of Grant and Lyon First Days 90 Bristol Packet's "NEW YORK" Robert G. Rose Handstamp: Was it Applied in London The London Philatelist 91 or New York? Baja California del Sur: 1915 Local Dr. James Mazepa Collectors Club Philatelist 90 Provisional and Coach Seal Issue Analysis of Poland General Duty Dr. Edwin J. Revenue Tax Rates and Effects of The American Revenuer 90 Andrews Hyperinflation, 1921-1924

GOLD Bill DiPaolo Potts and the Coamo Provisional Possessions 86

France's Sower Design Proliferated Larry Rosenblum Linn's Stamp News 86 with Post-World War I Inflation

The of a Historic Fortress in Kelleher's Stamp Collectors' Thomas Lera Florida's Paradise: The Infamous Fort 89 Quarterly Jefferson in Key West's Dry Tortugas

Companhia de Mozambique: "Special John K. Cross Portu-Info 89 Status" Airmail Etiquettes NJPH, Journal of the New Robert G. Rose World War I: Postmarked New Jersey 89 Jersey Postal History Society

The Mayors and the 1933 North Claudio Incerti Fil-Italia 87 Atlantic Cruise Ralph Nafziger Wisconsin Tercentenary Issue First Days 88

LARGE VERMEIL William R. Schultz The Detached Rate Markings of Chronicle of U.S. Classic Postal 83 & Mark S. Schwartz Lynn,Mass., 1835-36 Issues

An 1845 "Ship Letter" from Port-au- Dr. Charles DiComo Prince Hispaniola to New York City on Excelsior 83 the Brig Hayti World War I: Portuguese Madeireiros John K. Cross Portu-Info 82 in England

Michael Wing Absolutely Fireproof Georgia Post Roads 83 The Shrunken Owl on AN POST Postal Ray Murphy The Revealer 83 Cards 1919-1920, the Fiume Endeavour: Giorgio Migliavacca Printed Media and the Role of the Fil-Italia 80 Postal Service

VERMEIL Some Semi-Official Return North Carolina Postal Maurice Bursey from the Gubernatorial Election of 76 Historian 1864 Papal States Military Mail & the Thomas Pratuch Vatican Notes 75 Philatelic Collector Earthquake Mail: An Analysis of the Neil Donen The London Philatilist 79 1935 Disaster at Quetta A Re-Examination of Stamps and Emory Earl Toops Covers of Revolutionary South The Philatelic Exhibitor 75 Vietnam for Exhibiting Purposes

Joel Cohen The Jackie Robinson Story in Stamps The United States Specialist 79 Rachel Carson and the Great American Joel Cohen The United States Specialist 77 Series

LARGE SILVER Postal Reforms of the Papal States: Thomas Pratuch Vatican Notes 72 1800to 1870

Glenn H. Morgan Stamp Printing Processes Philateli-Graphics 70

Pneumatic Post Moved Mail in Larry Rosenblum Linn's Stamp News 74 for More Than a Century

SILVER James C. Hamilton Mosaics on Vatican City Stamps Vatican Notes 65

Robert W. A Perspective on the 1898 Canada Map The New CartoPhilatelist 69 Lighthouse Stamp New Postal Service During the North Carolina Postal SILVER-BRONZE Maurice Bursey 63 Civil War Historian

How a Sweet Little Old Lady Helped Phillip Fettig Central Florida Stamp Club 60 Several Central Florida Dealers