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2011 Show Committee

Chairman: Thomas Fortunato Awards: Ada Prill Banquet: Ray Stone Bourse: Dave Robinson Cachet and Cancel Designs: Kelly Armstrong Cachet Sales: Rick Kase Design-A-Stamp: Frank Tritto Exhibits: Thomas Fortunato

Mailing: John Lighthouse Program: Robert Lighthouse Judges: Ann Triggle Publicity: Thomas Fortunato RPA Hospitality Table: Chuck Schultz Staging: Rick Kase Treasurer: Dave Robinson Youth Activities: Mary Iman

2011 Special Events

Aaron Kahler Grade 10- 1st

Brian Malgieri Grade 10- 2nd

Kameron Lewis Grade 12- 1st

Stephanie Hopkins Grade 12- 2nd

Three of the four winners attended ROPEX in person, with their teacher standing in for Brian.

2011 Schedule & Events

For Exhibitors...

The Rochester Philatelic Association sponsors the major awards at ROPEX shown above. Most of them came from
the One World Goods Gift Shop, a not-for-profit store that sells fair trade handicrafts produced in developing countries.
Read about Jhonson Augustin, the metal work artisin from Croix des Bouquet, Haiti, who created four of our awards.

We are thankful to the many specialty societies and philatelic organizations that offer a variety of awards to national
"World Series of Philately" exhibitions. Some are displayed below. Judges may chose not to award prizes if the minimum
award requirements set by the donor society are not met. Clicking a society's colored name will take you to their web site.
(Click on the icon to view the award criteria)

American Philatelic Society Medal and Ribbon of Excellence- Pre-1900 Material Medal and Ribbon of Excellence- 1900-1940 Material Medal and Ribbon of Excellence- 1940-1980 Material Medal and Ribbon of Excellence- Post-1980 Material Medal and Ribbon for Research Excellence

American Topical Association First Award- minimum National Bronze (medal and ribbon) Second Award (medal and ribbon) Third Award (medal and ribbon) Youth Award- minimum 3 exhibitors (medal and ribbon) One Frame Merit Ribbon (not shown)

American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors Award of Honor- Excellence in Presentation Not Winning a Gold Medal (2- cloisonn pin) Creativity in Philatelic Exhibiting Award (gold pin) Title Page Excellence Award (magnifier dome and ribbon) AAPE Youth Grand- winner enters AAPE s Youth Champion of Champions (certificate and ribbon) Novice Award- Best Exhibit of a First Time Exhibitor (not shown- AAPE year membership and exhibiting book) AAPE Youth Grand- winner enters AAPE s Youth Champion of Champions (certificate and ribbon) Youth First, Second and Third Best Exhibits Awards (ribbons)

American Airmail Society Best Multi-frame Air Mail Exhibit Winning a National Vermeil or Gold minimum 3 entries (medal and ribbon)	American First Day Cover Society Best Exhibit of First Day Covers with 75% or more FDC Material minimum 3 entries (plaque)	American Philatelic Congress Excellence in Written Text (Congress Book)
American Revenue Association Best Multi-frame Revenue Exhibit Award Winning a National Silver or Higher minimum 3 entries (medal, ribbon and certificate)	ATA Space Unit Best Exhibit with a Space Theme (Gold, Silver and Bronze medals)	Auxiliary Markings Club Best Exhibit of Auxiliary Markings Winning a National Silver or Higher (certificate)
British North America Philatelic Society Best exhibit of British North America material, including Canada and British Colonies in North America Winning a National Silver or Higher. (plaque and ribbon)	Empire State Postal History Society Best New York State Postal History Exhibit Winning a National Vermeil or Gold minimum 2 entries (Waterford clock)	Ephemera Society of America For Any Display, Postcard or Advertising Cover Exhibit with a Significant Amount of Ephemera (certificate)
German Philatelic Society Best Exhibit Demonstrating Merit not Winning the show's Grand or Reserve Grand (book, 1 year GPS membership)	International Society of Worldwide Stamp Collectors Youth Award for the Best Display of Worldwide Material minimum 5 entries/50 pages (medal)	Military Postal History Society Best Exhibit of Military Postal History Winning a National Silver or Higher minimum 2 entries (prize mailed to winner)
Postal History Society/APC Best Multi-frame Exhibit of Postal History minimum 6 entries (magnifier)	Scandinavian Collectors Club 3 SCC Awards for Best Multi-frame Traditional, Postal History and Research for Exhibits of 90% or More Scandinavian Material (medals)	Sports Philatelists International 4 Sports Best of Show Awards for Multi-frame (min. Silver, 3 entries), One Frame (min. Silver, 2 entries), Novice (min. Bronze), Youth (certificates)
State Revenue Society For All Exhibits with a Significant Part Composed of State Revenue Material. Available in Gold, Silver or Bronze to Correspond with its WSP Medal Level. (medal and certificate mailed to winner)	United Postal Stationery Society Marcus White Award for the Best Multi-frame Postal Stationery Exhibit Winning a National Vermeil or Gold and not Winning Their Showcase Award (plaque)	United States Philatelic Classics Society Best U.S. Exhibit with Greater than 75% Material up to the First Bureau Issue of 1894 Winning a National Vermeil or Gold and Not Winning this Award in a 24 Month Period (medal)
United States Stamp Society Statue of Freedom Award Best U.S. Multi-frame Stamp/ Stamped Paper Exhibit up to the First Bureau Issue of 1894 Winning a National Vermeil or Gold (medal)	U.S. Cancellation Club Best Multi-frame U.S. Cancellations Exhibit with a Minimum of 25% of the Material Focusing on the Cancellations (plaque)	Vatican Philatelic Society Best Exhibit of Mostly Vatican or Roman States Material Winning a National Silver or Higher and Not Winning This Before (medal)
Women Exhibitors Sterling Achievement Award Merit for Any Exhibit in Philatelic/Subject Knowledge, Material or Treatment Winning a National Bronze, Silver-Bronze or Silver (pin)

136 frames reserved (32 competitive exhibits- 129 frames [1 no show], 7 non-competitive frames)

* denotes an exhibiting RPA member, ♦ denotes a State Postal History Society member entry
-Title page - Plan page - Synopsis page

Click here to see the Exhibit Layout. Click here for the complete Awards Palmares.

1 Frame		Title	Description
Karen Barber*	Adult Class 1 frame	Snowmen, A Winter Creation	A thematic one frame exhibit investigating origins, conditions, faces, accessories and summary. [Thematic]
Alan Parsons *♦	Adult Class 1 frame	19th Century Railroad Postal Markings Related to Steuben, Schuyler, Chemung and Tioga Counties, NY	By use of 19th century railroad postal markings the exhibit traces growth of railroad mail service to 1900 in four contiguous "southern tier" NY counties. [Postal]
Ada M. Prill *♦	Adult Class 1 frame	Star Cancels of Delaware County, New York	A postal history exhibit examining star cancels used in a rural county in New York. [Postal] See an online version by clicking here
Ada M. Prill *♦	Adult Class 1 frame	Uh-Oh! - Mistakes in U. S. Auxiliary Markings	Murphy's Law applied to auxiliary markings. [Postal] See an online version by clicking here
Ellen Rose ♦	Adult Class 1 frame	Utica New York's Stampless Handstamp Markings	A study of Utica's handstamp markings throughout the pre-stamp and stampless periods. [Postal]
Harlan F. Stone	Adult Class 1 frame	Swiss Hotel Posts	The only eight hotels that issued stamps to serve postal purposes. [Postal]
Harlan F. Stone	Adult Class 1 frame	Swiss Postal Envelope Production Errors	Stamp imprints misplaced, inside-out, upside-down, albino and double-embossed. [Postal]
Ann Triggle *♦	Adult Class 1 frame	Wales in Erie County, NY	The first postal records of Wales, NY indicate a small farming community with the first post office in a general store at the cross roads. [Display]
Multi-Frame		Title	Description
D.A. Chafetz ♦	Adult Class 4 frames	The Development of Morris County, NJ Mail Service 1760-1850	A postal history exhibit showing the full development of the postal service with mail that originated within Morris County and mail sent to the county. [Postal]
George DeKornfeld *♦	Adult Class 8 frames	The Marcophily of Hudson, New York, 1793-1919	A sampling of the various postal markings covering this important period of mail development. [Postal]
Thomas Fortunato *	Adult Class 4 frames	Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries- Idioms Illustrated and Explained	An interactive fun look at a number of English language expressions shown through a variety of postal elements. [Thematic] See an online version by clicking here
Eliot Landau	Adult Class 10 frames	Classic France: Postal History of the Ceres and Napoleon Issues	The domestic rates and their changes, military mail, foreign bureaus and agencies, foreign mails and mixed frankings. [Postal]
Kurt W. Laubinger ♦	Adult Class 5 frames	The Politically Inspired Cachets of Bruce R. McIntyre, 1936-1960	Hand drawn colored cachets of Bruce R. McIntyre of political events from 1936-1960. Most are postmarked at the city of the events, many with autographs. [Illustrated Mail]
Alice Johnson *	Adult Class 5 frames	A Multitude of Angels	A thematic look at angels, their origins, myth and legend through the millennia. [Thematic] See an online version by clicking here
John Lighthouse *	Adult Class 3 frames	US Revenue Stamps First Issue Using Commerce to Fund the Civil War	View of our history through Civil War era documents and the revenue stamps used to aid in funding that war and the subsequent debt. [Revenue]
Robert W. Lighthouse *	Adult Class 4 frames	Plating Study of the Canada 1898 Map Stamp	Plate positions of the 5 known plates based on differences of the black (engraved), red and blue/lavender (lithographed) peculiarities. [Postal] See an online version by clicking here
Thomas P. Myers	Adult Class 4 frames	Peruvian Airmails, 1927-1941	A study of Peruvian commercial airmail routes and rates from its beginning to the opening of World War II. [Postal]
Alan Parsons *♦	Adult Class 5 frames	Corning, NY Postal History Including DPOs Now Serviced by the Corning Post Office	An examination of mail handling from 1834 to date in the area now covered by the Corning NY post office. [Postal]
Alan Parsons *♦	Adult Class 5 frames	The Sullivan Commemorative of 1929	A postal division first day cover exhibit focusing on the stamp, official and unofficial first day covers, cancel varieties and cachets of the issue. [Postal]
Roger Quinby	Adult Class 8 frames	The First Postal Cards of the Republic of Finland: The Saarinen Postal Cards 1917-1930	A postal stationery exhibit showing all the cards and unissued cards with emphasis on usages and upfranked usages during period of rapid post-war rate increases. [Postal]
Robert G. Rose ♦	Adult Class 10 frames	New Jersey Stampless Covers: Handstamp Marcophily, 1775-1855	A study of handstamped markings beginning with New Jersey's first Revolutionary War postmark to the end of the stampless period in 1855. [Postal]
Jeffrey Shapiro ♦	Adult Class 10 frames	The Prexies At Work	Selected examples of the varied usages of the United States Fifth Bureau Issue, or the 1938 Presidential Series, but more commonly known as the Prexies. [Postal]
Raymond M. Stone *	Adult Class 9 frames	3 Handcar- Rochester's First Transportation Coil	An exhibit emphasizing the variety of cachets and various official and unofficial cancellations on first day covers of this 1983 transportation coil definitive issue. [Illustrated Mail]
Ann Triggle *♦	Adult Class 2 frames	Clarence, NY	A display exhibit showing the postal history of Clarence Township from 1813 to 1944, using representative markings and pictures. [Display]
Ann Triggle *	Adult Class 8 frames	Ichthyology (Fish)	This thematic exhibit will explore the world of fish and how it relates to man. [Thematic]
Nathan Zankel ♦	Adult Class 4 frames	New Brunswick, NJ: A Brief Study of its Postal History	A postal history study of postmarks, rate marks, cancellations, and other items, colonial era to early 20th century. [Postal]
Youth		Title	Description
Alexandria Fillion	Youth Class 1 frame	What A Princess Wants	A youth thematic exhibit showing the wishes of princesses. (Age 10) [Youth]
Annika Fillion	Youth Class 1 frame	U.S. Domestic Rates for First Class Surface Postal and Post Cards Between 1873 and Today	A youth postal history exhibit examining U.S. postal card and post card surface rates from their beginnings through today. (Age 8) [Youth]
Jared Phillips	Youth Class 2 frames	Farming Through the Ages	A thematic look at farming throughout history, exploring the different kinds of equipment used and the crops and animals raised. (Age 10) [Youth]
John Phillips	Youth Class 3 frames	America By Water	A thematic overview of the importance of water routes in the discovery, exploration, settlement, and development of America. (Age 15) [Youth]
Joseph Phillips	Youth Class 2 frames	Bridging the Gap	A display exhibit about the different kinds of structures used for bridges. (Age 12) [Youth]
Non-Competitive		Title	Description
Various	Non-Comp 7 frames		7 assorted single-frame exhibits
No-Show		Title	Description
Orville Osborne	Adult Class 5 frames	Canada's Imperial Penny Post	This exhibit displays the history of Canada's map stamp including varieties, usage and anomalies. [Postal]

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