Awards & Honors
Pacific Area Philatelic Awards
November 2007 CHICAGOPEX (Chicago, USA)
Steve Zirinsky, Tonga Provisional Issues, [Lit] BRONZE
Feb/March 2008 St Louis Stamp Show (USA)
Paul Larsen, Caroline Islands to 1914: Spanish and German Periods,
GOLD + Grand
March 2008 Collectors Club of New York (USA)
Robert Stein, Nauru: The German Period, Invited Presentation
April 2008 WESTPEX (San Francisco, USA)
John Cress, Up and Over...Down Under, GOLD + SP
Dale Forster, Australia Illustrated, VERMEIL
Richard Malmgren, Hawaiian Postage Stamps, GOLD + SP
Ron Rhodes, South Australia, GOLD
May 2008 FIP International (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Paul Fletcher, Postage Dues of Australia, LARGE GOLD
May 2008 Rocky Mountain Stamp Show
View the "Rocky Mountain High" 2008 SAS/O Convention Report
(Denver, USA) [see also story pp. 62-63]
John Barwis, The Half-Lengths of Victoria 1850-1859, GOLD + Grand + SP
George Bowman, Victoria: The English TPOs 1887-1917, GOLD
George Branam, Prisoners of War: The Experience of New Zealand in the European Theater in World War II, GOLD + SP
John Cress, The Development of Australian Airmail 1914-1934, GOLD + SP
Paul Fletcher, Niue, GOLD + SP
Ron Hill, Pictorial Lettercards and Envelopes of Tasmania, SILVER
Peter Iber, The Traveling Post Offices of Queensland and Victoria, VERMEIL + SP
Jerome Kasper, New Zealand POW Aerogrammes, GOLD
Les Molnar, The Two-Shilling Woodblocks of Victoria, Invited
Robert Stein, Nauru Freighter Issue 1924-1954, GOLD
Robert Stein, Sir Rowland Hill Centenary - Nauru 1979, VERMEIL + SP
Paul Tyler, The Penny Dominion of New Zealand, GOLD + SP
Ed Williams, The Polynesian Dependencies of New Zealand, GOLD
May 2008 Royal Philatelic Society London (UK)
Robert Odenweller, New Zealand, Invited Presentation