09/18/2013 (P1735)
Contact: Ken Martin

APS Literature Award Winners



The American Philatelic Society has announced its winners for its three major literature awards: the USSS-Barbara R Mueller Award, the Charles J. Peterson Philatelic Literature Life Achievement Award, and the Thomas F. Allen Award. This year’s winners were announced at the Awards Banquet at APS StampShow in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 10.


Kupiec-Weglinski

Hotchner

Birch

United States Stamp Society-Barbara R. Mueller Award
The sixth annual United States Stamp Society-Barbara R. Mueller Award for the best article published in the The American Philatelist, during 2012 was awarded to Dr. Jerzy W. Kupiec-Weglinski for his June 2012 article, “The Siege of Przemysl 1914–1915.”

Charles J. Peterson Philatelic Literature Life Achievement Award for 2013
The third annual Charles J. Peterson Philatelic Literature Lifetime Achievement Award for furthering philatelic knowledge through philatelic literature was awarded to John M. Hotchner. These achievements may be the result of publication in traditional print and/or electronic formats, editorship, or the judging of philatelic literature.

Thomas F. Allen Award
Brian J. Birch is the winner of the first Thomas F. Allen Award given for the best article published in a single year of The Philatelic Literature Review. Birch’s article “Schuyler B. Bradt and the First Philatelic Index” appeared in the 3rd Quarter 2012 PLR. The focus of the winning article is to be on philatelic literature, research, or libraries. It should share new research or knowledge or take a previous work and rework the information with new and interesting ideas, relevant to today’s philatelic researchers.

Further information on these awards and lists of past winners is available at www.stamps.org/awards.

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