| 2002 |
| TEXPEX 2002 was held April 5-7 at the Renaissance Dallas
North Hotel, Dallas, Texas. Exhibition Results: GRAND AWARD - Large Waterford cut crystal vase to "Pre-UPU Rates Between the U.S. and France" by Dwayne O. Littauer. RESERVE GRAND AWARD - Medium Waterford cut crystal vase to "Fighting the Fed in Philadelphia: Independent, Carrier & Local Posts, 1836-1879" by Vernon R. Morris Jr. MD. ONE-FRAME AWARD - Waterford cut crystal egg to "Using America's First Issue to Prepay Domestic Letter Rates - 1847-1851" by Harvey Mirsky.
OPEN CLASS GOLD MEDAL AWARDS "Pre-UPU Rates Between the U.S. and France" by Dwayne O. Littauer. Also Grand Award, Best Exhibit by a TPA Member, APS Medal of Excellence for Pre-1900 Material and American Philatelic Congress Award. "Fighting the Fed in Philadelphia: Independent, Carrier & Local Posts, 1836-1879" by Vernon R. Morris Jr. MD. Also, Reserve Grand Award, J.C.M. Cryer Cup, Port Lavaca Philatelic Society Award. "Zeppelin South American Flights, 1930-1937" by James W. Graue. Also AAPE Creativity Award, APS Medal of Excellence for 1900-1940 Material. "American Intervention in the Caribbean, 1906-1934" by Alfred F. Kugel. Also Military Postal History Society Grand Award. "U.S. Three Cent 1851-57 Issues: Production and Usage" by William K. McDaniel. Also American Philatelic Society Research Medal, United States Philatelic Classics Society Medal. "Postal History of the British Forces in Egypt and the Sudan" by Richard S. Wilson. Also Military Postal History Society Reserve Grand Award. "The Resurgence of Hunting and Fishing on Indian Reservations" by Michael Jaffe. Also APS Medal of Excellence for 1940-1980 Material. "Origin and Development of V-Mail During WWII" by George Cosentini. "Boyd's Local Post - New York City, 1844-1911" by Martin Richardson. "Steamship Companies" by Gregory Frantz. "Boyd's City Express Post, 1844-1885" by John D. Bowman.
OPEN CLASS VERMEIL MEDAL AWARDS "Civil War Revenue Stamps - the Butler and Carpenter Era (1862-68)" by Gary Giroux. Also Texas Series Winner, AAPE Award of Excellence. "The Lincoln Memorial Portrait Issues of 1866-69" by Eliot A. Landau.
OPEN CLASS SILVER MEDAL AWARDS "Netherlands Cancels and Postal Markings" by Richard A. Phelps. Also AAPE Award of Excellence. "The Post Office Department: The Work Horse of the Departmentals" by Monroe E. Harden. "U.S. Airmail Stamps and Covers, 1918-2001" by Gordon Brick. "France - Stampless, 1560s-1860s" by Robert T. Kinsley. "U.S. Armed Forces in WW II - Selected Military Units & the Part They Played" by George Cosentini. "About the First Family of U.S. Postal Cards" by Howard Ness.
OPEN CLASS SILVER-BRONZE MEDAL AWARDS "The United States Strip Narcotic Tax Stamps" by Warren H. Crain. "National and International Airplane Mail To, From and Through New York" by Martin Margulis. "Stamp Collecting - Unlimited Choices" by Kevin Zeitler. Also Texas Stamp Dealers Association Most Popular Exhibit Award.
ONE-FRAME MEDAL AWARDS Gold."Using America's First Issue to Prepay Domestic Letter Rates - 1847-1851" by Harvey Mirsky. Also Best Single Frame Exhibit. Vermeil. "APO Mail to Foreign Destinations" by Alfred F. Kugel. Vermeil. "Usage of the 13c Harrison, 4th Bureau Issue" by Howard Lee. Vermeil. "Usage of the 14c Indian, 4th Bureau Issue" by Howard Lee. Vermeil. "Kobenhauns Fodpost " by Arthur W. Zeitler. Vermeil. "Mail of the AEF to Foreign Destinations" by Alfred F. Kugel. Vermeil. "Illustrated WW II Military Airletters: India & Ceylon Commands" by Jerome V.V. Kasper. Vermeil. "The Boer Occupation of British South Africa, 1899-1900" by Alfred F. Kugel. Silver. "Confederate and Union Telegraph Covers and Messages" by George J. Kramer. Silver-Bronze. "Brush Country Philatelist" by Rex H. Stever. |