WESTPEX® 2013

Stamp Show

Exhibits

The 53rd annual WESTPEX Stamp Show with its 300+ exhibit frames in open competition is one of the qualifying shows for the American Philatelic Society's World Series of Philately competition. The WESTPEX Grand Award winner will be eligible to compete in the Champion of Champions event at the APS Stampshow in August.

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The WESTPEX 2013 jury is (with their specialties)

John Hotchner (jury chair). Errors, Freeak & Oddities; Latin America, Modern Philately, Postal History, US & Possessions

Santiago Cruz. Aerophilately, Colombia, Latin America, Postal History, Postal Stationery

Jerry Miller. Postal History, Traditional Single Frame, Meters, German Area

Dr. Daniel Warren. Confederate States, Great Britain, Literature, Postal History, US 19th century

Patrick Walters. Aerophilately, Europe, German Area, Postal History, US & Possessions

William Fort, III. Airmail, British North America, Latin America, United States, US Postal History

A floor plan of the show is found here.

Accepted Exhibits for WESTPEX 2013 as of March 30, 2013

 Frames

Title

1-8

Uruguay Airmails (1921-1946)

9-14

Swedish Perfins and Their International Connections

15-20

Machine Vended Postage Labels of USA (1989-2009)

21

Wartime and Early Post-War Proving Flights to/From Australia

22

Hong Kong Airmails: Pre_War Connections to Europe. The KLM Service

23

French Acceptances For Mail Flown From New York During The Uniform Rate Period 1927-1939

24

Via New York: Catapult Mail of the North Atlantic to Europe 1928-1935

25

The United Kingdom Experimental Rocket Posts

26

The "Yankee Clipper": Accelerated Transatlantic Air Mail. United States of America to Europe and return

27

Processing Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg Passinger Mail

28

Flown Mail on U.S.S. Shenandoah

29

Air Crash Mail of Imperial Airways and Pan American World Airways

30

The 3p Provential Semi-Official of November 25-26, 1933

31

DLH South Atlantic 1934-1939: Crashes and Recovered Airmail

32

"The Jenny" - Printing Variations of America's First Airmail Stamp

33-40

Australian Colonies -- USA Mail

41

Hilfskreuzers, German Naval Merchant Raiders of World War II

42

Swiss Volunteers in the German Military During World War II

43-52

Zeppelin South America Flights 1930-1937

53-62

Graf Zeppelin 127 - The Postal Globe Trotter

63-64

Romanian International Air Mail 1922-1939

65

Imperial Airways Experimental North Atlantic Operations June 1937 - September 1939

66-74

Zusammdrucken Germany 1916-1942

75

The World's First Official Aerial Post, 1911

76-78

Oder-able Stamps

79-83

The 1895 Newspaper and Periodical Issue

84-93

U.S. Bicolor Postage Issues of 1869, 1873, & 1901

94-103

The Imperforate Issue of 1851-1856

104-108

Antioquia - Pre Paper Stamp

109-113

Postal Charges on Airmail France - Australasia 1933-1993

114-123

Postal Rates during the Gold Yuan Era: The Chinese Hyperinflation of 1948-1949

124-133

Fieldpost Schleswig-Holstein/Denmark Wars 1848-51 & 1852 Occupation; 1864 War & 1865-1866 Occupation

134-138

German Horseshoe Cancels

139-143

Celebration of the End of Nazi Rule in Czechoslovakia. Local "Liberation" Stamps and Covers of May 1945

144-153

Censored, Rerouted, Suspended, Resumed: U.S. International Mail in World War II

154-163

Cachet Makers Louis and Mae Weigand, A Survey

164-168

Revenue Stamped Paper of the Spainish Dominion of the Philippines (1868-1899)

169-173

Czechoslovakia Airmails 1945 to 1975

174-183

The Story of Swiss Philately

184-193

Edged in Black - 19th Century United States Mourning Covers

194-198

Egyptian Postal Stationery - the Regular and Registered Envelopes

199-203

Chile "Presidente" Postal Stationery, 1911-1929

204-213

The Kingdom of Nepal Seals, Postmarks and Cancellations 1795-1911

214-221

Barbados: The Pre-Stamp Era To The End of the Britannias

222-228

"The Maple Leaf Issue Forever" A Study of Canada's 1897-98 Maple Leaf Issue

229-235

Swiss Zeppelin Mail to the Americas 1930-1937

236-243

Postal Stationery of Nepal

244-251

Danish West Indies foreign Mails: 1748-UPU

252

Grand Duchy of Bergmain Post Office in Hamburg 1806-1810

253-258

Czechoslovakia - Air Mail of the First Republic

259-264

Czechoslovakia's Hradcany 1918-1920

265-272

Scouting on Stamps "Classics"

273-280

Paraguay -- The Classic Period

281-286

The 1948 Currency Reforn in the Soviet Zone of Germany

287-289

World War I - German and Austro-Hungarian Military Mail from Bulgaria, and German and Austro-Hungaria Acceptances of Bulgarian Military Mail From Outside Bulgaria

290-297

Chile: The Rouletted Issues 1877-1899

298-305

The Beacon Air Mail Stamp

306-307

Kamikazies vs Carriers

308

The Chinese Zodiac

309-314

James William Denver - The Man and His Times


 

exhib2002

A few of the 308 frames at WESTPEX 2002.