WESTPEX® 2012

Stamp Show

This page illustrates some of the WESTPEX 2012 awards available to the judges to award to the winning exhibits.

Each year WESTPEX presents specially chosen awards for the Grand Award, Reserve Grand, Don Dretzke Memorial Award, Chairman's Award, and California Collectors Club Award.

Grand Award 2012

Ikebana vessel by Joe and Karen Kovecses

Each vessel is designed and handcrafted by Joe and Kovecses of Waxhaw, NC, and their love of nature is apparent in the their work.

Reserve Grand Award 2012 sponsored by Collectors Club of San Francisco

Nambe Planar Centerpiece Bowl

Grand Award 2012 for Single-Frame Exhibits

Rosewood, wenge, and tiger stripe maple box

Don Dretzke Memorial Award 2012

Bubinga and wenge exotic wood box

for best cancelled STAMP exhibit

WESTPEX Chairman's Award 2012

 

Best traditional exhibit

California Collectors Club Award 2012

Handcrafted Schlabaugh and Sons Wood Clock

SESCAL Award 2012

Handcrafted Schlabaugh and Sons Wood Clock

Margaret Munda Award of Merit

 Life membership to the Western Philatelic Library given by the San Francisco Pacific Philatelic Society for: Runner-up to the Reserve Grand

 

Al Van Dahl Memorial Award 2012

Clock in Burl Wood

for best Scandanavian exhibit

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WESTPEX Gold medal.

The WESTPEX Vermeil, Silver, Silver-Bronze, and Bronze medals are the same size but made of different metals.

ASPP Grand

Signed limited edition print by artist and French explorer Paul-Émile Victor

Military Postal History Society

British Caribbean Philatelic Study Group

COLOMPHIL 2011

Outstanding Research and Investigation of Any Country

The American Philatelic Society provides Award of Excellence for 19th Century, 1900-1940, 1940-1980, and post-1980 exhibits.

ASPP Reserve Grand

Signed print and cancellation of the French Souther and Antarctic Territories framed limited edition print

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aapecreativity

The American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors provides three awards. One is for creativity (above). Another is for presentation (upper right). And the Title Page award (dome magnifier).

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The American Philatelic Congress award for writeup. The award is a Congress Book.

US Philatelic Classics Society Medal

Best U.S. exhibit up to 1894 by the United States Philatelic Classics Society

ROSSICA Award

Michael Rogers Inc. 2012 Best Asia Award

 

 

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U.S. Stamp Society Statue of Freedom award for the best United States stamp exhibit from 1847 to the present.

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United Postal Stationery Society Marcus White Award for best postal stationery exhibit.

BNAPS Award

Scandinavian Collectors Club Award

O'Neill Award

Cross Pen and Pencil Set

Sterling Achievement Award

Women Exhibitors

indiastudy

India Study Circle Award is used to encourage interest in India's postal and philatelic history.

Nepal & Tibet Philatelic Study Circle

Best Nepal , Tibet or Himalayan Exhibit

German Philatelic Society

Gold, Silver, Bronze awards

ATA awards