Boston 2026 was held in Boston, Mass. May 23 – 30th, 2026 at the Boston Convention Center. Despite the long walks needed to cross the huge locale, the exhibits all looked great. Society members did well in many exhibition categories.
Vernon R. Morris Jr., MD won the Grand Prix National with his “Transition of American Mail from British Colonial to USPO: 1685 To 1799” (also Multi-frame Large Gold).
Other Society members whose exhibits won in the category of Postal History are:
- Captain Eigil T. Trondsen won Multi-frame Large Gold for “Cunard Line: The Ships And The Transatlantic Mail 1840-1867, The Monopoly Years.”.
- Daniel M. Knowles won Multi-frame Large Gold for “Handling American Domestic and International Mail 1860-1869: The Decade of Turmoil and Expansion”.
- Daniel J. Ryterband won Multi-frame Large Gold for “A Country Divided: Effects of the American Civil War on the Mails”.
- Robert Forster won Multi-frame Large Gold for “Nova Scotia Colonial Postal History”.
- Dwayne O. Littauer won Multi-frame Large Gold for “Pre-UPU Mail Between the United States and Bremen”.
- Steven C. Walske won Multi-frame Large Gold for “La Debacle: Postal History of The 1870-71 Franco-Prussian War”.
- Robert G. Rose won Multi-frame Gold for “New Jersey Stampless Covers: Handstamp Postal Markings 1775-1855.”.
- Geoffrey Lewis won Multi-frame Gold for “New Orleans Postal History – Stampless Mail”.
- Christopher G. Colby Smith won Multi-frame Gold for “The French Consular Post Office At Cairo, Egypt, 1866-1875”.
- Captain Eigil T. Trondsen won Multi-frame Gold for “Norway, Registered Mail To 1945”.
- Edward J. & Patricia J. Laveroni won Multi-frame Large Vermeil for “The Evolution of Early California Mail 1821 to 1857”.
- Hugh V. Feldman won Multi-frame Large Vermeil for “Britain’s Mail Coach Era 1784 – 1840”.
- Rick Mingee won Multi-frame Large Vermeil for “San Francisco Postal History: 1849 To 1869”.
- Douglas N. Clark won Multi-frame Large Vermeil for “The Massachusetts Island Counties, Postal History To 1890”.
- Ravindra R. Vora won Multi-frame Vermeil for “Confederate States Of America: Department Of State”.
- Apratim Bhattacharya won Multi-frame Large Vermeil for “World War II and the Culmination Of India’s Revolutionary Freedom Struggle”.
- Ravindra R. Vora won Multi-frame Large Vermeil for “India’s Chinese Expeditionary Forces: A Philatelic & Postal History Exhibit”.
- Andrew A. Ward won Multi-frame Large Silver for “Fiji’s Postal History 1840-1903”.
- Clifford J. Alexander won Single-frame Gold for “Wiley’s Washington & Baltimore Short-Lived One Cent City Despatch Posts”.
- Chip Gliedman won Single-frame Gold for “Mail Routes Of Rupert’s Land, British North America”.
- Chip Gliedman won Single-frame Gold for “Leominster, Mass. Provisional Postage Due And Instructional Labels”.
- Apratim Bhattacharya won Single-frame Gold for “Mails Through Chaos: Navigating Route Disruptions During The Indian Mutiny”.
- Steven C. Walske won Single-frame Gold for “Civil War Blockade Of The Southern Coasts, 1861-65”.
- Peter Schwartz won Single-frame Gold for “The Earliest Black Portrayals on U.S. Stamps 1864 — 1872”.
- Scott David Steward won Single-frame Large Vermeil for “U.S. Domestically Mailed Circulars From 1845 To 1863”.
Society members whose exhibits won in the category of Traditional Philately are:
- Gordon E. Eubanks won Multi-frame Large Gold for “First Federally Issued Postage Stamps of the United States”.
- Vernon R. Morris Jr., MD won Multi-frame Large Gold for “Evolution & Impact of Blood’s Local Post: 1842 to 1862”.
- Mark Schwartz won Multi-frame Gold for “The NY Postmaster Provisional.”
- Chip Gliedman won Multi-frame Gold for “Imperforate Line Engraved Stamps of Great Britain, as Viewed Through Plate Position”.
- Leonard H. Hartmann won Multi-frame Large Vermeil for “De La Rue Stamps of the Confederate States of America”.
- Matthew Healey won Multi-frame Large Vermeil for “Co-Evolution of Form and Function of the One-Shilling Stamp In 19th-Century Great Britain”.
- Alfredo Frohlich won Single-frame Gold for “Replating Colombia’s 1861 1 Peso Stamp. Correcting The Laarsen Stone Theory.”.
- Rev. Dr. Stephen Knapp won Single-frame Large Vermeil for “An Essay-Proof History for the One Cent Franklin of 1887”.
- John F. Schorn won Single-frame Vermeil for “Essays And Proofs Of The 1967 United Nations Disarmament Stamps”.
Three Society members won in the Postal Stationary category:
- Richard Taschenberg won Multi-frame Gold for “Usage History of the Pumpkin Envelopes – How and Where They Were Used”.
- Richard Malmgren won Multi-frame Gold for “Hawaii Postal Cards”.
- Rafael Blanco won Multi-frame Vermeil for “Postal Stationery Issued and Used in Puerto Rico from 1878 – 1906”.
In the Maximaphily, Lars Böttger won Multi-frame Large Vermeil for “The Great War – From Its Origins To Its Consequences”.
Three Society members won in the Aerophilately category:
Cheryl Ganz won Multi-frame Large Gold for “Zeppelins & the United States”
Patrick A. Walters won Multi-frame Gold for “The United States Government Flights 1918-1927”.
Michael L. Wilson won Single-frame Vermeil for “Pan American Airways Speed Test Of 1946”.
In the Open Philately category, Philip Leber won Multi-frame Gold for “U.S. Telegraphy: Origins, Consolidations and Technologies”.
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In a league of its own, as it were, Literature awards were won by 9 members.
- Nicholas Miles Kirke won Large Gold for “New York City Foreign Mail 1845-1878 (Volume 1, Volume 2)”.
- Steven C. Walske won Gold for “Letter Communications Through the Blockades of North America 1774 to 1865”.
- Ute & Elmar Dorr won Gold for “Hungarian Post Offices In Foreign Letter Service From 1900 To The Outbreak Of World War I”.
- Christopher G. Colby Smith won Gold for “Austrian Maritime Rivals, The Danube Steam Navigation Company and the Austrian Lloyd in the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea 1834 to 1849”.
- Luca Lavagnino won Large Vermeil for “Cursores”.
- Apratim Bhattacharya won for three different submissions
> Large Vermeil for “On the Elusive Forged “SERVICE” Overprint on 1948 Gandhi issues”.
> Vermeil for “A Tale of Two “Campaigns” by a Cover Connecting the Anglo- Persian War and the Indian Uprising of 1857”.
> Vermeil for “India’s Revolutionary Legacy”. - Bruce Arlen Wasserman won Vermeil for “The Airpost Journal”.
- Richard Nazar won Large Silver for “A Compendium of Plate Number Coil Snippets by Alan Thomson”.
- Dr. Steven J. Berlin won Large Silver for “Mail Robbery Postal History (From Around the World)”.
- Jeffrey M. Levine won Bronze for “The Scott Vs. Scott Lawsuit: The Contest Over the Greatest Name in U.S. Philately”.
