Competition Entries
This is a list of the entrants to the GBPS competitions, and the titles, number of frames, and classes of their exhibits and the award received. We had a total of 81 exhibits occupying 319 frames – possibly the biggest one-society entry in Stampex history!Overall "best in show" (the revived Silver Mailcoach trophy) went to Howard Hughes for his entry of The Maltese Cross, with the felicitations of the Jury for material. Runner-up was Graham Booth for his Spoon Cancellations of Great Britain, with the felicitations of the Jury for research and presentation.
members who are logged into the site can see several of the entries (either complete or as extracts) in the Displays section using the links below.
UK Based
Name | Title | Fr. | Class | Award |
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Jon Aitchison | Isle of Man Before Postal Independence. Steps on a Route to Postal Identity | 1 | Open Class |
Large Vermeil |
Jon Aitchison | Postal History of Herm Island Prior to the Local Stamp Issuing Period | 1 | Postal History | Large Vermeil |
Jon Aitchison | The Introduction of the Telegraph Service to the Channel Islands | 1 | Open Class |
Large Vermeil |
Jon Aitchison | Early Airmail from the Channel Islands | 1 | Aerophilately | Vermeil |
Jon Aitchison | Guernsey World War II Sales Tax | 1 | Revenue | Large Gold |
Anthony Allen | Anglo-French Mail 1570-1877 Rates and Routes | 5 | Postal History | Large Silver |
Nick Amor | Early GB First Days | 4 | Postal History | Large Vermeil |
Peter Aveyard | Die II Alphabet III 1855-1864 | 8 | Traditional | Large Gold |
Graham Booth | Spoon Cancellations of Great Britain | 8 | Postal History | Large Gold |
Kenneth Burr | Mail from the United Kingdom to the Italian Peninsular from the Late Eighteenth Century to the General Postal Union | 1 | Postal History | Large Vermeil |
Kenneth Burr | Postage Rates and Markings - Letters from Great Britain to the East Coast of the USA 1845-1872 | 1 | Postal History | Large Vermeil |
Maurice Buxton | King George VI Stamped to Order Postal Stationery of Great Britain | 4 | Postal Stationery | Gold |
Maurice Buxton | Foreign Branch Registration Marks with Country or City Names, 1858-71 | 1 | Postal History | Large Gold |
Phil Cheetham | A Penny Black One in Sixty Eight Million | 3 | Traditional | Gold |
Phil Cheetham | The Post Magazine Address Panel and its Decorative Borders | 1 | Postal History | Vermeil |
Peter Chadwick | Handstruck Town Marks of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century | 5 | Postal History | Large Vermeil |
John Davies | A Jubilee Reminiscence: The Conversazione at the Guildhall | 5 | Open Class |
Large Gold |
James Grimwood-Taylor | British Postal History and Postal Reforms 1175-1842 | 8 | Non competitive | |
Chris Harman | The Great Revenue Reform Adhesive Receipt, Draft and General Duty Revenues 1853-1883 | 8 | Non competitive | |
Ian Harvey | Great Britain The Advertiser Voucher Book of Stamps 19081943 | 4 | Traditional | Large Gold |
Alan Holyoake | The Origins of Express Mail | 1 | Postal History | Large Gold |
Alan Huggins | Proofs and Essays of the Embossed Stamps used on Postal Stationery from 1841-1970 | 8 | Non competitive | |
Howard Hughes | The Maltese Cross | 8 | Postal History | Large Gold |
Howard Hughes | 1867 1881 1d Purple Fiscal Series | 1 | Traditional | Large Vermeil |
Mike Jackson | Great Britain King George V Downey Head Plates, Paper and Perforation | 8 | Traditional | Large Gold |
Allan Jones | The 1½d Letterpress Definitive of 1924-34 | 3 | Traditional | Large Gold |
Chris Jones | Cancellation of the Imperforate Line Engraved Issues of Great Britain 1840 1854 | 5 | Postal History | Gold |
Phil Kenton | The Passage and Acceleration of GB Surface Mail 1768-1937 | 8 | Postal History | Vermeil |
George King | Is this the Biggest Ever G.B. Post Office Stamp? | 1 | Postal Stationery | Silver Bronze |
David Leathart | Sample Stamps of Queen Victoria 1840-1902 | 4 | Traditional | Gold |
Tim Lediard | 1d Black Mail to and from Edinburgh | 1 | Postal History | Large Silver |
Michael Lockton | Penny Pinks | 5 | Postal Stationery | Large Vermeil |
Gerald Marriner | How Postal Communications were affected during the German Occupation of the Channel Islands | 5 | Postal History | Vermeil |
David Milsted | King Edward VII First Day to Funeral | 5 | Non competitive | |
Ben Palmer | GB Pre UPU Mail to Germany | 1 | Postal History | Vermeil |
Ray Simpson | Evolution of British Stamp Perforation 1840-1880 | 8 | Traditional | Large Gold |
Tony Stanford | GB Military and Army Telegraphs | 1 | Non competitive | |
Tony Stanford | Admiralty Official Mail | 2 | Non competitive | |
Tony Stanford | GB Army Officials | 1 | Non competitive | |
Iain Stevenson | Great Britain Parcel Post 1883-1908 | 4 | Postal History | Vermeil |
John Sussex | The British Recorded Delivery Service 1961-2010 | 8 | Postal History | Gold |
Martin Townsend | Postal History in Miniature | 8 | Non competitive | |
David Turner | Ocean and Imperial Penny Postage 18401918 | 8 | Special Studies | Gold |
Tony Walker | Battle of Coronel and the Falkland Islands in WWI 1914 | 5 | Open Class |
Large Silver |
Tony Walker | The £sd Machin 2/6, 5/-, 10/- and £1 values | 1 | Traditional | Vermeil |
Phil Waud | The Shades of the GB Queen Victoria One Penny Star Die II | 1 | Traditional | Vermeil |
Stephen Weir | Great Britain The Arms High Values 1939-1948 | 3 | Traditional | Large Silver |
Richard Wheatley | Penny Post Handstamps in the Leeds Postal Area | 3 | Postal History | Large Silver |
Nick Wraith | Great Britain Parcel Post 18821935 | 4 | Postal History | Large Gold |
Continental America
Name | Title | Fr. | Class | Award |
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Robert Benninghoff | Irish Definitive Coil Stamps 1922-1940 | 5 | Traditional | Large Vermeil |
Robert Benninghoff | The Collection of Postage Due Fees in Ireland 1914-1925 | 1 | Traditional | Large Vermeil |
Chip Gliedman | My Victoria: Imperforate Line Engraved Stamps of Great Britain from the Plate Position 'CG'. | 5 | Traditional | Large Vermeil |
Larry Haber | The Half-Penny (Decimal) Machin | 5 | Postal History | Large Vermeil |
Doug McGill | Anglo French Reciprocity 1842 1914 | 3 | Postal History | Vermeil |
Steve McGill | British Postal Mechanisation from Transorma to the Modern Era | 8 | Traditional | Gold |
Steve McGill | The British Denominated Machin Series 1967-2013 | 8 | Traditional | Large Gold |
Tom Myers | British Airmail Letter Rates to Asia and Africa 1931 to 1946 | 5 | Aerophilately | Large Vermeil |
Rod Paige | Great Britain the Early Cancellations | 8 | Postal History | Large Vermeil |
Paul Phillips | Evolution of the British Overseas Mail System 18401856 | 8 | Postal History | Gold |
Mary Pugh | George V Commemorative Stamp Issues | 5 | Traditional | Large Gold |
Dave Russum | Great Britain Penny Posts During the Victorian Era | 3 | Postal History | Large Silver |
Tom Slemons | The Penny Black in Suffolk - its Short Life | 1 | Postal History | Gold |
Tom Slemons | Great Britain Postal Reform 1837-1840 | 1 | Postal History | Large Vermeil |
Tom Slemons | The Mulready - Forme 1 Locating Stereo A76 | 1 | Postal Stationery | Large Vermeil |
Joel Weiner | The Triangle Cancels of London 18921968 | 8 | Postal History | Large Vermeil |
Continental Europe
Name | Title | Fr. | Class | Award |
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Martien Blank | Great Britain Telegraph Stamps | 5 | Traditional | Gold |
Ingo Egerlandt | Field Post Offices of the British Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium from 16th September 1939 to 18th June 1940 | 5 | Postal History | Silver |
Willem Hoitink | Great Britain One Penny Stars 18551862 | 4 | Traditional | Vermeil |
Frans op den Kamp | GB Queen Elizabeth II Errors | 3 | Traditional | Large Vermeil |
Erich Kirschneck | British Mail to Mediterranean Coastal Towns from 18371875 | 3 | Postal History | Vermeil |
Karl Louis | The 1841/53 One Penny and Two Pence Imperforate Issue on Foreign Destination Mail | 3 | Non competitive | |
Karl Louis | Royal Household Mail in the 19th Century | 1 | Non competitive | |
Alexios Papadopoulos | Commercial Zeppelin letter mail to/from South America in 1936 | 1 | Postal History | Gold |
Jonny Reher | The Maltese Cross Postmark Obliterating Stamp for the first Postage Labels | 5 | Postal History | Large Silver |
Gero Schmitz-Le Hanne | Postal History - King George VI The "Arms" High Values their use via various postal routes to overseas destinations during WW2 | 3 | Non competitive | |
Manfred Schmitz-Reutler | The Reign of King George VI 19371951 | 3 | Postal History | Silver Bronze |
Mario Stauch | Postmarks of Edinburgh 17921840 | 1 | Postal History | Silver Bronze |
Martin Strack | Postal Relations between the United Kingdom and France 18151875 | 4 | Postal History | Gold |
Ton Voorbraak | British Mail Overseas 1840 to UPU | 5 | Postal History | Gold |
Christa Zakrzynski | The Branch Offices of London | 1 | Non competitive | |
Asia
Name | Title | Fr. | Class | Award |
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Chuichi Ota | Telegraph stamps of Great Britain and the British Empire | 5 | Traditional | Large Vermeil |