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MILCOPEX 2012 September 21-23, 2012 Wyndham Milwaukee Airport Hotel & Convention Center Milwaukee, Wisconsin MILCOPEX 2012 September 21-23, 2012 Wyndham Milwaukee Airport Hotel & Convention Center Milwaukee, Wisconsin Milwaukee Philatelic Society, Inc. Data From: Mary Ann Bowman/ Dona Fagan E-Mail:[email protected] Website: www.milwaukeephilatelic.org Grand and Gold Imperial Postmarks of the Trans-Siberian Railroad, Chelyabinsk to Manchzhyriya Edward J. Laveroni also Postal History Society Inc. Medal Reserve Grand and Gold Zeppelin South America Flights 1930-1937 James W. Graue also American Air Mail Society Gold American Air Mail Society Grand Award Gold The New Zealand Mt. Cook Half-Penny Design of 1898 George W. Bowman also American Philatelic Congress Award American Philatelic Society 1900-1940 Medal of Excellence De Coppet Razor Cancelers of Switzerland Roger Heath St. Louis Street Car Mail 1892-1915 Gary Hendren also Collectors Club of Chicago Award Mobile Post Office Society Charles L. Towle Annual Exhibit Award Lincoln 4¢ Definitives 1890-1902 Eliot A. Landau also William J. Ulhein Award for Best Americana America's Public Libraries and Their Forerunners 1731-1956 Larry T. Nix also American Philatelic Society Research Medal The U.S. Rural Free Delivery System Guy M. Purington The 1938 Presidential - A Rate Study Robert A. Schlesinger also American Philatelic Society 1940-1980 Medal of Excellence The Magical World of Harry Potter Van Siegling also American Philatelic Society Post-1980 Medal of Excellence American Topical Association Best Topical Exhibit MILCOPEX Most Popular Award Uses of the 1¢ Franklin, Series of 1902 David Steidley also American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors Award of Excellence (Title Page) United States Stamp Society Statue of Freedom Award Vermeil German World War I Military & Occupation Mail Alfred F. Kugel also Military Postal History Society Award The First 75 Years of U.S. Airmail Stamp Usage, 1918-1993 K. David Steidley also American Air Mail Society Vermeil Silver A Study of S&H Green Stamps Roland Essig also American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors Award of Honor Latvia 1918-1940: Stamps of the Second Great Awakening Mr. Larry R. Huebner also American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors Award of Honor Bronze How Jules Verne "Predicted" the Flight of Apollo 13 Jack H. Green also American Air Mail Society Bronze U.S. Poland's Millennium Stamp: Background, Design, and Symbolism as Told through First Day of Issue Print Robert Tatara also Women Exhibitors Sterling Achievement Award Single Frame Grand and Vermeil The Three Milliemes Army Post Stamps of Egypt Richard S. Wilson Vermeil Chapeaux Rouge Judy Essig also American Topical Association Best Topical Single Frame Exhibit SCADTA Airmail Stamps for SCADTA Airmail Service in Ecuador Alfredo Frohlich also American Air Mail Society Vermeil Silver Library Uses of Melville Dewey's Postal Card Larry T. Nix Silver Bronze Elmo Loves Stamp Collecting Elmo World War II Pacific Navy Location Code Names Alfred F. Kugel Non-Competitive Postmark Collectors Club & Museum in Bellevue, OH World War II - Alpha and Omega Gary G. Hendren The Trans-Mississippi Issue of 1898 Robert Mather Early Official First Day Covers from Poland Robert Tatara The Polish Millennium of 1966 on World-Wide Stamps and Covers Robert Tatara .
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