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Champion of Champions
Single Frame Champion of Champions
Most Popular Champion of Champions

World Series Champion of Champions

Roland Cipolla II (right) receiving the Champion of Champions award from Wade Saadi, APS President.

2009: Roland Cipolla II
How the Post Facilitated Distribution of the Printed Word 1775–1870
ARIPEX 2009

2008: Irvin Heimburger
The U.S. Pictorial Issue of 1869 and Its Usage
Southeastern Stamp Show 2008

2007: Alfredo Frohlich
Classic Colombia
Sarasota National Stamp Exhibition 2007

2006: Vernon R. Morris Jr.
Fighting the Fed in Philadelphia:
Carrier, Local Posts and Independent
Mails 1835 to 1867

BALPEX 2005

2005: Harlan F. Stone
Switzerland 1862-1883: The
Perforated Sitting Helvetia

Postage Stamp Mega Event

2004: Omar J. Rodriguez
Hidalgo First Issue of Mexico 1856–1864
and Provisional Usages

ARIPEX

2003: George J. Kramer
U.S. Domestic Mails 1776-1869
NOJEX

2002: Arthur K.M. Woo
Western Australia
WESTPEX

2001: Michael T. Mahler
United States Civil War History: A Survey
of the Documentary Taxes
SANDICAL

2000: James Mazepa
Mexico: First Issue, 1856-1861
Garfield Perry

1999: Robert L. Markovits
U.S. Officials 1873-1884
Omaha Stamp Show

1998: The Brigham Collection
The Province of Canada: The Pence and Cents Issues 1851-1868
APS STAMPSHOW

1997: Richard E. Drews
U.S. Issues of 1861-1868
St. Louis Stamp Expo

1996: W. Danforth Walker
Grenada: 1751-1911
Spring New York Postage Stamp Mega Event

1995: Howard L. Arnould
Danish West Indies Postal History, Foreign Mails before 1880
NOJEX

1994: Robert J. Cooley
Great Britain Line Engraved Issues: One Penny and Two Pence Values, 1840-1879
CHICAGOPEX

1993: George J. Kramer
Across the Continent
ROPEX

1992: James P. Gough
The Evolution and Use of Adhesives for Postage Due, 1790-1954
ROMPEX

1991: Peer Lorentzen
Denmark 1-10, 1851-1863
ARIPEX

1990: Gene Scott
Denmark: The Skilling Issue
National Postage Stamp Show

1989: Roger G. Schnell
Classic and Bicolor Stamps of the Danish West Indies
Sarasota National Stamp Exhibition

1988: Gene Scott
Iceland: Numeral Issues, 1873-1903
FRESPEX

1987: Robert A. Paliafito
Mexico: The First Designs 1856-1867
ARIPEX

1986: George J. Kramer
Wells Fargo & Co., 1852-1895
Sarasota National Stamp Exhibition

1985: John Birkinbine, II
Confederate States of America, 1861-65
STAMPSHOW

1984: Eugene E. Bowman
Cape of Good Hope 1792 to 1910
MILCOPEX

1983: Harvey R. Warm
Postal History of Louisiana
WESTPEX

1982: Joseph F. Rorke
The Black Jacks
WESTPEX

1981: Blake M. Myers
Civil War Patriotic Covers: The Union and the Confederacy
Garfield-Perry March Party

1980: Lynne S. Warm
United States First Bureau Issues 1894-1903
FRESPEX

1979: George P. Trefonas
Large Hermes Heads of Greece
CHICAGOPEX

1978: Ryohei Ishikawa
U.S. One Cent 1851-1861
WESTPEX

1977: Edward J. Dormer
Mexico - Selected Pages, Period of Spanish Domination Through the Republic and Maximilian Periods
FLOREX

1976: Robert C. Magnesen
Peru
CHICAGOPEX

1975: Victor E. Engstrom
Postal History of the Danish West Indies
NOJEX

1974: Ludwig L. Simon
The Aristocrats of Confederate Philately
APS Spring Meeting

1973: Robert P. Odenweller
New Zealand 1855-1857
SESCAL

1972: Louis Grunin
U.S. 1847-1857
NOPEX

1971: Wilber H. Schilling, Jr.
19th Century U.S.
SOJEX

1970: Margaret L. Wunsch
U.S. 1869 Issue
SESCAL

1969: James T. DeVoss
Via Panama Mail Before 1881
SOJEX

1968: Robert H. Cunliffe
19th Century U.S. Revenues
CHICAGOPEX

Single Frame Champion of Champions

2008: Yamil H. Kouri, Jr.
Early Contract Steamship Mail Between Charleston, Savannah and Cuba

2007: Reuben A. Ramkissoon
The Trinidad World War I Red Cross Label that Became a Postage Stamp

2005: Paul A. Fletcher
Trinidad: The 1885 Postage Due Issue

2004: Wolf Spille
Argentina: The World's First Columbians

2003: Edward J.J. Grabowski
Reunion: The Use of Due Stamps for Regular Postage: December 31, 1900-January 20, 1901

2002: Harlan F. Stone
Switzerland's Golden Franc

2001: Jerome V.V. Kasper
New Zealand Prisoner of War Aerogrammes

2000: Martin J. Miller
Samoa's 1-Shilling Bisect

Most Popular Champion of Champions

2008: Kurt W. Laubinger
Hand Drawn and Hand Painted Cachets by Watercolor Artist Vaughn Hord 1980-1993

2007: Chris Calle
Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Man on the Moon

2005: Jeff Shapiro
ConPHessions of the PHat Philatelist

2004: Kurt W. Laubinger
Poliotically Inspired Cachets of Bruce R. McIntyre - 1936 to 1960

2003: Robert Denson
Covers and Patches from the National Boy Scout Jamborees

 


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