RECENT
AWARDS WON BY SOCIETY MEMBERS
Congratulations
to the following SHP exhibitors: Alfred F. Kugel won a
gold and the APS 1900-40 medal at Colopex 99 with The Break-up
of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; another gold and the APS 1900-1940
medal at Indypex 99 with Expansion of Greece, 1897-1922;
also a vermeil at Philexfrance 99 with French Forces Abroad,
1893-1918; Mr. Kugel and Donald Green participated
in the Champions Competition at Stampshow 99; Dr. Stephan I.
Frater won a gold at Napex 99 with Independent Hungarian
Post: The Early Years, 1867-1878; Henry Hahn won a
gold at Stampshow 99 with Pneumatic Mails of Vienna, Prague,
and Karlsbad; Mr. Hahn also received a gold medal and
the American Air Mail Society gold medal with Czechoslovak
Commercial Air Mail, 1920-1951 and Robert B. Morgan
won a gold medal, the Postal History Society grand award and the
APS award for best 1940-1980 exhibit with Hungary: The Hyperinflation
of 1945-46, both at the Philadelphia National Stamp Exhibition.
Well done, Gentlemen!
Excerpted
from: The NEWS of Hungarian Philately Vol.30:4
Congratulations
to the following SHP members for awards received at various exhibitions:
Alfred F. Kugel won a gold medal and the C. I. Ball best
postal history award at the March Party with Allied Intervention
in Russia 1918-1925; Mr. Kugel also won two medals
at Texpex 99: a gold with The Allied Intervention in Russian
1918-1925 and a vermeil with Ottoman Forerunner Postmarks
of the 20th Century; Donald Green received the reserve
grand prix, other classes medal as well as the American Revenue
Association award at the Americas 99 event for Patent Medicine
Companies of the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras; Mr.
Green also received the first place award, which included
a 5 ounce gold medal, at the Anaheim Postage Stamp Mega-Event
with Patent Medicine Companies Subject to the Revenue Act of
1862; Wallace Craig won a silver medal at Sandical
99 with 19th Century Brazilian Stationery; Dr. Paul
J. Szilagyi received a vermeil award for The Study of the
Rumanian Occupation Issues, 1918-1922 and a gold award with
special recognition for The Golden Age of Hungarian Air Mail
at the 72nd Stamp Day Exhibit in Budapest; Marcel de Jong
received a gold award with special recognition for The Turul-era
Frankings; and Paul de Leeuw van Weenen received a
large vermeil award for The Millennium Postal Cards of 1896,
both at the 72nd Stamp Day Exhibit; and Dr. Stephen Frater
received a gold medal and the general foreign section award for
Early Years of the Independent Hungarian Post at Nojex
99.
Excerpted
from: The NEWS of Hungarian Philately Vol.30:3
Congratulations
to: Robert Jensen, who won the grand award, a gold medal,
the APS award and the recognition for best foreign exhibit at
Valpex 98 with Hungary, Newspaper Postal History; Dr.
Stephen Frater for participating with The First and Second
Austrian Issues Used in Hungary in the 'by invitation only'
exhibit at the Fall Mega Event; Alfred F. Kugel for the
vermeil medal and the GPS vermeil at Aripex 99 with The Allied
Occupation of Germany, 1918-1935; and Donald Green
for the reserve grand, a gold, and the American Revenue Association
award at the Americas '99 show with Patent Medicine Companies
of the Civil War and the Reconstruction Eras.
Excerpted
from: The NEWS of Hungarian Philately Vol.30:2
Congratulations
to SHP member Donald E. Green for earning the new accreditation
as an APS judge as well as receiving the reserve grand, a gold
medal, and the American Revenue Association grand and gold medals
at the Philatelic show in Boxborough, MA with the exhibit titled
Patent Medicine Companies of the Civil War and Reconstruction
Era
The
Stamp Show 98 in Santa Clara featured the exhibits of Donald
E. Green and Alfred Kugel in the Champion of Champions
class. Other Hungarian-relate exhibits were The Austro-Hungarian
Bug River Flotilla Mail, 1916-18 by DeVitar and The Hunting
Revenues of Hungary by Joachim Hosang.
Excerpted
from: The NEWS of Hungarian Philately Vol.29:4
Congratulations
to SHP member Alfred Kugel for winning gold medals at the
following events: at the St. Louis Expo with The New Order
in the Baltic, 1918-1923; at the Sarasota National and at
Westpex 98 with Turmoil in the Balkans 1876-1918; at the
March Party 98 with The Rising Sun - Japanese Expansion 1894-1941
(which also received the Garfield-Perry Donald W. Goertz award
for best foreign exhibit); at Rompex 98 with The Allied Intervention
in Russia 1918-1925 (which also received the Military Postal
History Society reserve grand and the APS 1900-40 medal); at the
Filatelic Fiesta with Remember the Maine! America's War with
Spain and Its Aftermath; and a large vermeil at Juvalux 98
with The Allied Intervention in Russia, 1918-1925.
Congratulations
are also in order to the following SHP members: Donald E. Green
earned the grand award, a gold medal, the APS pre-1900 medal,
the Bureau Issues Association award, and the American Revenue
Association award at Rompex 98 with Patent Medicines: Companies
of the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras; R.S. Frank
received a vermeil medal and the American Association of Philatelic
Exhibitors award at Okpex 98 with Scouting Postal History of
the 1930s; Robert B. Morgan received a large vermeil
at Israel 98 with Hungarian Hyperinflation, 1945-46; Gábor
Visnyovszki received a large silver in the literature class
at Israel 98; and William Solyom-Fekete won a large vermeil
at Juvalux 98 with Austrian Postage Stamps Used in Hungary,
1850-1867.
Also,
congratulations are in order to Dr. Paul J. Szilagyi for
receiving the Hungarian Philatelic Society's (Great Britain) Les
Grof Literature Award. This is the second year in a row that
Dr. Paul J. Szilagyi's series of articles on the Baranya covers
was voted this prize.
Excerpted
from: The NEWS of Hungarian Philately Vol.29:3
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