OKPEX was held June 13-14, 2025 at the Student Union of Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma. This location is the same as in 2024.
Three Society members won four awards at the show.
William J. Johnson’s “James W. Denver: The Man and his Times” repeated a win from the Rocky Mountain Stamp Show of the USPCS Medal. He also won Multi-frame Large Gold, the APS Award of Excellence-pre-1900, and the ATA First Award Medal.
John Hotchner had two exhibits win awards. His, “The U.S. CIPEX Souvenir Sheet of 1947 – Development, Production, First Days of Contemporary Use ” won Multi-frame Gold (also the AAPE Treatment Award and the First Day Cover Society Award). John’s “The Mid-19th Century Start of Perforating in Great Britain and the United States” won Single-frame Gold.
Bob Crossman won Multi-frame Vermeil for ”Butterfield’s Overland Mail Company ”.
