PALMARES
Rossicapex 2009
Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, California
26 - 28 June 2009

Richard Weinberg The Small Heads of the First Definitive Set of the U.S.S.R. 1923-1927 - ROSSICAPEX Grand Award and Gold Medal (Multi-Frame)

Dr. Edward J. Laveroni Imperial Postmarks of the Trans-Siberian Railroad, Chelyabinsk to Manchzhuryia - ROSSICAPEX Reserve Grand Award and Gold Medal and American Philatelic Congress Award and Postal History Society Award and American Philatelic Society Award of Excellence 1900-1940

George G. Werbizky Russian Rural Post (Zemstvo) Use of Bisected Stamps - ROSSICAPEX 2009 Grand Award (Single-Frame) and National Stamp Dealers Association "People’s Choice" Award

Dr. G. Adolph Ackerman Russian Imperial Air Units in World War I - Rossica Society National Award (Single-Frame Runner-Up)

Court of Honor

Dr. Ross Marshall Soviet Antarctica 1955-1959

"Classicus" Grand Duchy of Finland 1856-1874

ROSSICAPEX Medals

General, Postcard, and Youth Classes

Gold medals:

Vesma Grinfelds Latvian Traveling Post Offices: Rates, Routes and Cancellations - Baltic States Philatelic Society Award

Vesma Grinfelds The Air Post Issues of Lithuania: A Traditional Study

Dzintars Grinfelds The "3-Star" Coat of Arms Issues of Latvia: 1921-1933

Roger P. Quinby Finnish Railway to St. Petersburg - American Philatelic Society Research Award and American Philatelic Society Award of Excellence Pre-1900 and Scandinavian Collectors Club Award

David M. Skipton "Blue Pencil." Imperial Russian Censorship of Prison, Exile and Interned Civilian Mail - Auxiliary Markings Club Award of Merit

David M. Skipton Military Censorship in Imperial Russia, 1904-1917 - Steve and Cathy Schumann Award of Merit

Björn Sohrne Russia and Persia till 1930 - American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors Creativity Award

Vermeil medals:

Jay T. Carrigan Carpatho-Ukraine 1944-1945 - American Philatelic Society Award of Excellence 1940-1980 and Col. Cyril Dean Sterner Award

Chris Kulpinski Soviet Occupation of Poland 1939-1941

Arnold Levin Russian Mute Cancels and Registration in WWI (Fragment of the Research Collection)

George G. Werbizky Ostarbeiter Mail in WW2

George G. Werbizky Unrecognized and Overlooked Zemstvo

Silver medals:

Dr. Ray Ceresa Armenian Revenues – Their Use on Receipts 1918-1924 - American Revenue Association Award

Richard Clever Mongolia 1886-1932 - American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors Award of Honor and American Stamp Dealers Association Award

Alexander Kolchinsky Stalin on Stamps, Covers, and Postcards: Philately at the Service of Dictatorship

Anatoly Osatinski On the Roads of Russia

Raymond J. Pietruszka Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic November 1917 – June 1923 - Women in Exhibiting (WE) Award

George V. Shalimoff Usage of the Romanov Tercentenary Issue of Russia 1913-1917

Nikolai Sorokin Keeping the Faith: Vignettes of the Old Russian Diaspora - Rossica Society Presidents Award

Rein Vasara World War I. Prisoners-of-War in Russia

Rein Vasara World War I. Prisoners-of-War in Russia. Postal Stationery

Silver-Bronze medals:

Alexander Kolchinsky From Russia with Love: Foreign Visitors Send Home Picture Postcards, 1896-1948

George V. Shalimoff Russian Revolutionary Overprints

ROSSICAPEX Medals

Single-Frame Class

Gold medals:

Vesma Grinfelds The First Stamp of Latvia: Printed on Maps

Dr. Edward J. Laveroni The Poezd and Pochta Postmarks of the “Little Railroads” of St. Petersburg

Vermeil medals:

Dr. Paul Ortega Soviet Union Postage Stamp Advertising Labels 1923-1927 - American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors Award of Honor

Steve Volis Odessa: Clandestine Mail Surveillance, 1920-1940 - American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors Novice Award

Silver medals:

Dr. Ray Ceresa The Trident Revenues of Podolia, Ukraine 1919

Chris Kulpinski Postal Evidence of the Russification of The Kingdom of Poland 1815–1876

George V. Shalimoff The 1857-1866 Issues of the 10 Kopecks Stamps of Russia

Nikolai Sorokin Feldmoching DP Camp’s Russian Post