The Military Postal History Society Exhibit Award, (Presented for best-in-show military exhibit at WSP Shows)
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Introduction
Established in 2008, This award is presented at WSP (World Series of Philately APS shows) to the best military exhibit where there are three or more military exhibits on display.
Criteria
The Military Postal History Society will award the best military postal history award with the following criteria:
- The exhibit must have a military theme as determined by the jury chairman.
- The exhibit may have 1-10 frames.
- The exhibit may be entered into any class exhibit as determined by the APS CAN\EJ, Committee on Accreditation of National Exhibitions and Judges, committee.
- There must be 3 exhibits pertaining to military postal history in the competition.
- The exhibit must have won a silver or higher award in the competition
- The award will be given at the awards banquet.
- An envelope will be given to the winner which will have a picture of the award. An addressed stamped envelope to the MPHS award chairman will be enclosed. The winner is to send the enclosed post card to the MPHS awards chairman. The award will be engraved and sent to the winner by return mail.
First Award
Per an article in the Bulletin](https://militaryphs.org/B/BUL_Jul_1992.pdf):
Joe Taylor was the first MPHS member to receive the new award, a carved wooden eagle. The new trophy was introduced at this year’s convention by Awards Chairman Bob Lana.
Past Winners
| Year | Event | Awardee | Presentation Title | Award Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | BALPEX | Joe Taylor | Allied Intervention in Russia | Gold |
| 2008-2009 | INDYPEX | Al Kugel | Postal History of the American Forces in China 1900-1941 | |
| 2008-2009 | MINNESOTA | Jon Becker | Conquest & British Administration of Palestine | |
| 2008-2009 | APS STAMPSHOW | Al Kugel | Allied Occupation of the German Colonies 1914-1923 | |
| 2008-2009 | OMAHA | Steve Henderson | World war II Post Offices of the 8th Air Force in England | |
| 2008-2009 | BALPEX | Arnold Levin | Russian Mute Cancels & Registration in World War I | |
| 2008-2009 | AMERICOVER | Steve Durst | The Wernher von Braun Rocket Team in War & Peace | |
| 2008-2009 | VAPEX | Phil Rhoade | The Murder of Lidice | |
| 2008-2009 | SESCAL | Giorgio Migliavacca | Italian POWs in the U.S. During World War II | |
| 2008-2009 | CHICAGOPEX | Eliot Landau | Lincoln, Slavery & the Civil War | |
| 2008-2009 | SANDICAL | Charles LeBlonde | WWII Censorship of Danish Mail | |
| 2008-2009 | ARIPEX | Ralph H. Nafziger | Soldier’s Diary of WWI-North Russia Expedition | |
| 2008-2009 | AMERISTAMP/TEXPEX | Robert D. Rawlins | Remembering the Maine (one frame) | |
| 2008-2009 | ST. LOUIS EXPO | Al Kugel | Polish Forces in Exile and Following WWI | |
| 2008-2009 | COLOPEX | James C. Cate | General Banks Division | |
| 2010-2011 | BALPEX | Henry Laessig | Sanjak of Novi Pazar | |
| 2010-2011 | SESCAL | Louis Fiset | Great Britain Interns Her Refugees | |
| 2010-2011 | MILCOPEX | No Winner | ||
| 2010-2011 | INDYPEX | No Winner | ||
| 2010-2011 | CHICAGOPEX | Louis Fiset | US Internment Camp Mail in World War II | |
| 2010-2011 | SANDICAL | Frank M. Wiatr | Fortress Krakau 1914-1918 | |
| 2010-2011 | COLOPEX | Al Kugel | Postal History of American Forces in China 1900-1941 | |
| 2010-2011 | APS AMERIPEX STAMP EXPO | Dr. Edwin J. Andrews | Paul Von Letton-Vorbeck: The Events and Times That Molded the Man | |
| 2010-2011 | GARFIELD-PERRY MARCH PARTY | Dr. Michael Dixon | British Forces Air Mail Letter Cards and Air Letters Used In World War II | |
| 2010-2011 | PHILA. NAT’L STAMP EXPO | Richard S. Wilson | British Forces In Egypt 1932-1936 the Postal Concession | |
| 2010-2011 | WESTPEX | Jack Thompson | U.S.A. Postal Administration Cuba (1895-1905) | |
| 2010-2011 | PLYMOUTH | Ed Dubin | Civilian and German & Austro-Hungarian POWs Interned in the US During WW I | |
| 2010-2011 | NAPEX | Ernest Bergman | The Swiss Army: Its Duties, Services and Patriotice Support 1930-1945 | |
| 2010-2011 | MILCOPEX / AMERICAN TOPICAL | Dr. Edwin J. Andrews | Paul Von Letton-Vorbeck: The Events and Times That Molded the Man | |
| 2010-2011 | MINNESOTA STAMP SHOW | Earl Galitz | Bulgaria In the First World War | |
| 2010-2011 | AMERICOVER | Phil Rhoade | Czechoslovakia Overrun Nations Issue | |
| 2010-2011 | APS STAMP SHOW | Robert Collins | Korean War | |
| 2014 | APS Ameristamp Expo | Michael Peter | Swiss Volunteers in the German Military During World War II | Vermiel |
| 2014 | ARIPEX | David and Laurie Bernstein | A Postal History of the German Battleship Bismark | Vermiel |
| 2014 | BALPEX | Patrick Pollock | The Often Forgotten History of the Union Navy in the Civil War | Gold |
| 2014 | CHICAGOPEX | Slawomir Chabros | Correspondence of Polish Legions 1914-1917 | Gold |
| 2014 | Filatelic Fiesta | Dr. Akthem Al-Manaseer | The Forgotten War - IEF’D’ and the War in Mesopotamia 1914-1918 | Gold |
| 2014 | FLOREX | Robert Hisey | Rise and Fall of French African Air Routes WW II | Gold |
| 2014 | Garfield-Perry March Party | Daniel Knowles | The Confederate States of America (CSA) Postal Initiative | Gold |
| 2014 | MILCOPEX | Jerry Miller | German Intervention in China | Gold |
| 2014 | NAPEX | Al Kugel | Allied Occupation of the Former German Colonies, 1914-1922 | Gold |
| 2014 | NOJEX | Jaroslav Verner | Czechoslovak Legions in France, Italy, & Slovakia | Vermiel |
| 2014 | Omaha Stamp Show | Phil Miller | German Afrika Korps, During WW II | Gold |
| 2014 | Philadelphia National Stamp Exhibition | Richard Wilson | Egypt - Postmarks Found on the Army Post Stamps - 1936-1941 | Gold |
| 2014 | PIPEX | Louis Fiset | Censored, Rerouted, Suspended, Resumed: U. S. International Mail in World War II | Gold |
| 2014 | WESPEX | Alexander Kolchinsky | The Mail of the Leningrad Blockade | Vermeil |
| 2015 | APS Ameristamp Expo | Bob Rawlins | USS Oregon, Bulldog of the Fleet | Gold |
| 2015 | ARIPEX | Joseph Bock | Usages by U.S. Allies during WWII Using U.S. Military Airmail | Silver |
| 2015 | BALPEX | David and Laurie Bernstein | A Postal History of the German Battleship Bismark | Vermeil |
| 2015 | COLOPEX | James Cate | Confederate Military Mail-Chattanooga 1862-64 | Grand - Gold |
| 2015 | INDYPEX | Al Kugel | Postal History of the American Forces in China 1900-1941 | Gold |
| 2015 | MILCOPEX | Jaroslav Verner | Mail of the Czechoslovak Legions and Organizations in Russia 1914-1920 | Gold |
| 2015 | NAPEX | Ann Lowfyle | British WWII Prisoner of War Stationery | Gold |
| 2015 | NOJEX | Henry Nogid | The Four Siege Cities of 1948: Rishon Le Zion, Safad, Nahariya, Jerusalem | Gold |
| 2015 | Omaha Stamp Show | Steve Henderson | They Were Soldiers Once, Vietnam War Postal History | Vermiel |
| 2015 | Philatelic Show | Richard Wilson | Egypt - Postmarks Found on the Army Post Stamps - 1936-1941 | Gold |
| 2015 | PIPEX | Al Kugel | The Allied Intervention in Russia 1918-1925 | Gold |
| 2015 | SEAPEX | Kathryn Johnson | America’s Victory Mail World War II V-Mail 1942-1945 | Gold |
| 2015 | Southeastern Stamp Expo | Robert Rentsch | German POW in Japan 1914-1920 | Gold |
| 2016 | APS Ameristamp Expo | David Zemer | World War I Censorship of Mail in the Canal Zone | Gold |
| 2016 | ARIPEX | Louis Fiset | 1871 Commune of Paris Prisoners’ Mail | Gold / Single Frame Grand |
| 2016 | Garfield-Perry March Party | James Cate | Chattanooga ‘Straight-Line’ Cancellations: Union Army Provisional Field Cancellations 1863-1864 | Gold |
| 2016 | SANDICAL | Charles LaBlonde | WW II German and Italian Sailor’s Mail from Goa to the Geneva Red Cross | Vermeil |
| 2016 | Sarasota National Stamp Exhibition | Robert Hisey | Rise & Fall of French Africa Air Routes of WW | Gold / Grand |
| 2016 | WESTPEX | Roy Teixeira | U.S. Naval Base 13 Ponta Delgada, Sao Miguel, Azores | Gold |
| 2016 | Rocky Mountain Stamp Show | Dr. Michael Dixon | British WWII Prisoner of War Air Mail Stationery | Reserve Grand |
| 2016 | OKPEX | Sergio Lupo | Morale Maintenance Work in WWI by U.S. Service Organizations | Gold |
| 2016 | APS Stampshow | Janet Klug | British Empire Anti-Communist Actions in the Jungles of Malaya, 1948-1960 | Gold |
| 2016 | SEAPEX | Michael Dixon | British WWII Prisoner-of-War Air Mail Stationary | Grand - Gold |
| 2016 | INDYPEX | Al Kugel | Allied Occupation of the former German Colonies 1914-1922 | Gold |
| 2016 | Filatelic Fiesta | H. James Maxwell | China’s U.S. Constitution Commemoritives - Through-the-Line Usages | Gold |
| 2016 | CHICAGOPEX | Jerzy Kupiec-Weglenski | Flown Mail of the Siege of Przemysl (1914-1915) | Gold |
| 2017 | SANDICAL | Mel Dick | The Postmarks and Cachets of the USS Lexington 1928-1942 | |
| 2017 | TEXPEX | Dr Michael Dixon | Boar War POW Camps in Ceylon 1900-1902 | Gold |
| 2017 | Garfield-Perry March Party | Daniel Telep | Vietnam’s Communist Insurgent Military Mail 1959-1975 | Gold |
| 2017 | St Louis Stamp Expo | Michael Peter | Swiss Volunteers During World War II | |
| 2017 | Filatelic Fiesta | H. James Maxwell | China’s U.S. Constitution Commemoratives: Through-the-Line Usages | Gold |
| 2017 | Westpex | Armando Grassi | A Postal Historian Study of the Crimean War | Large Gold |
| 2021 | BALPEX | Eric Knapp | Alaska at War: World War II and Western Canada | |
| 2021 | BALPEX | Steven Berlin | Mail Robbery in Military Conflicts 1745-1945 | (Also Theo Van Dam MPHS Grand Award) |
| 2023 | Rocky Mountain Stamp Show | Phil Miller | Foreign Volunteers in the German Military During WWII | Gold |
| 2023 | Westpex | Steven Walske | Le Debacle: Postal History of the 1870 Franco-Prussian War | Large Gold |
| 2024 | Rocky Mountain Stamp Show | Alfredo Frohich | 1914-1919 German Soldiers Captured in China-Japan Interment: Their Mail Use | |
| 2024 | PIPEX | Louis Fiset | 1871 Commune of Paris Prisoners’ Mail | |
| 2024 | Garfield-Perry March Party | James C. Cate | General Banks Division |
COMMENT: Trying to 'decode' this text and figure out which person, show, award, etc, etc. Confusing Steven Berlin. Theo Van Dam MPHS Grand Award, for best military exhibit by a member at our 2021 Annual Meeting: Mail Robbery in Military Conflicts 1745-1945 (Also MPHS Exhibit Award at BALPEX 2021) . MPHS Exhibit Award at the 2021 G.A.S.S. FROM the Bulletin 2021_04: Congratulations to Richard Martorelli. MPHS Bulletin Award for best article, 2020 MPHS Bulletin: Stamps Required ...Steven Berlin. Theo Van Dam MPHS Grand Award, for best military exhibit by a member at our 2021 Annual Meeting: Mail Robbery in Military Conflicts 1745-1945 (Also MPHS Exhibit Award at BALPEX 2021) ...Eric Knapp. MPHS Exhibit Award at the 2021 G.A.S.S. Alaska at War: World War II and Western Canada
COMMENT: The 2023 Rocky Mountain Stamp Show awarded the MPHS award to Phil Miller for his exhibit titled: Foreign Volunteers in the German Military During WWII , website says Gold
COMMENT: The rather loose usage of 'MPHS Award' in the Bulletins causes much trouble for the compiler. Over at the 'Grand' award area, I have several items gleaned from early 2018, and they ALL say something like 'MPHS award'. There are so many that perhaps they belong here, rather than there.
COMMENT: There are several awards glommed together at https://militaryphs.org/B/BUL_Oct_2021.pdf Some may apply here.
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