Competition Entries
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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.
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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 |