🏅 Medal Winners — Large Gold & Gold Awards

🥇 Large Gold Medal Winners

Traditional Philately

  • Tom Gosse (Australia) — Newfoundland – King George VI — 92 Points

  • Gordon Monk (Australia) — Surface Printed Varieties of the Surface Printed KGV 1d — 90 Points

  • Alain Vailly (France) — NVIs, The Precursors — 93 Points

  • Jefferey Simpson (New Zealand) — The New Zealand Magpie Moth — 91 Points

  • Jean-Jacques Tillard (France) — The Overprints of St. Pierre et Miquelon in the 19th Century — 95 Points

Postal History 2A

  • Paul Wreglesworth (United Kingdom) — New Zealand Marine Post Offices (1864–1907) — 91 Points

  • Eric Scherer (Switzerland) — Lettres de Pondichery – A History of Postal Services in the French Settlements in India — 91 Points

Literature

  • Steven Friedenthal (Canada) — Czechoslovakia Machine Advertising Cancels: The First Republic Period — 90 Points

  • Jeremy Hodes (Australia) — Queensland Registered Handstamps and Labels — 90 Points

Picture Postcards

  • Francisc Ambrus (Romania) — Romania as it was – Life at Beginning of 20th Century — 92 Points

🥇 Gold Medal Winners

Traditional Philately

  • David McLaughlin (Canada) — Canada – The 1933 UPU Preparatory Commission Meeting Stamp — 85 Points

  • David Mazitelli (Australia) — Australian Commemorative: 1936 Tasmanian Submarine Cable — 87 Points

  • Francisco Cucalón (Ecuador) — Ecuador 1881–1885: First Issue on Decimal Currency — 85 Points

Postal History 2B

  • Tony Curtis (Australia) — New South Wales Receiving Office Cancellations (1882–1927) — 86 Points

  • Michael Mather (Canada) — London Cancels – Development through the Victorian Period — 86 Points

Postal Stationery

  • Binod Krishna Shrestha (Nepal) — The Evolution of Nepalese Postal Stationery (1887–1959) — 88 Points

  • Binod Krishna Shrestha (Nepal) — The Design and Evolution of Aerogrammes (1959–1994) — 85 Points

Aerophilately

  • Robert Duns (New Zealand) — The Development of Imperial Airways Eastern Route (1920–1935) — 88 Points

  • Victor Millard (South Africa) — Imperial Airmail Connections (1931–1940) — 87 Points

Thematic

  • Maciej Grzeszczuk (Poland) — Rehabilitation – The Road to Recovery — 88 Points

Revenues

  • Oscar van der Vliet (Netherlands) — Sticked to Get Her Till the End — 85 Points

Literature

  • Sugianto Sudhana (Indonesia) — Medan Post Office, Dutch East Indies, Since 1882 — 85 Points

  • Gregg Redner (Canada) — Considering Auxiliary Markings — 89 Points

  • Kendall Sanford (USA) — Air Crash Mail of the World — 89 Points

Polar Philately

  • Serge Kahn (France) — Charcot in the Antarctic — 85 Points

Open Class

  • Susan Burn (United Kingdom) — Smithy – The Extraordinary Flying Life of One of the World’s Most Renowned Pioneer Aviators — 86 Points

Picture Postcards

  • Kangping Guo (China) — Ancient Pagodas in China — 87 Points