SCC EXHIBITION AWARDS
Scandinavian Collectors Club has the following awards available for presentation at national WSP shows where their annual convention is held.
They are as follows:
1) SCC National Award – Posthorn Mail Box for best Scandinavian entry - Presented
at SCC Annual Convention Show Only, determined by the show jury.
2-5) SCC Medals (Jed Richter Award, Paul Jensen Award, Victor Engstrom
Award, and Kaj Hellman), determined by the show jury.
The criteria for these awards are:-
1) SCC NATIONAL AWARD
The SCC National Award, a Posthorn Mail Box, is presented to the Best Scandinavian Exhibit at the SCC National Convention each year. It may be won by an exhibitor who is not a member of SCC, but the winning exhibit must be 100% Scandinavian Material to be eligible. An exhibitor may not win the bowl more than once for any given exhibit. Previous winners of this prestigious award are:
1993 - Howard L. Arnould "DWI Postal History, Foreign Mails before 1880"
at FLOREX
1994 - Roger G. Schnell "DWI Postal Stationery" at WESTPEX
1995 - Donald F. Halpern "Prestamp Danish Mail to 1866" at PHILATELIC
Show
1996 - Roger P. Quinby "Finland's 1918 Vaasa/Wasa Issue" at ROMPEX
1997 - Gordon C. Morison "Iceland Postal Cards" at VAPEX
1998 - Ross V. Olson "Swedish Definitives 1910-1936" at CHICAGOPEX
1999 - John L. DuBois "Danish West Indies Mails 1759-1877" at BALPEX
2000 - Donald B. Brent "Denmark Wavy Line Issue" at ROYAL 2000 ROYALE
2001 - Kurt Hansen "Ship Mail to and from Denmark" at NORDIA 2001
2002 - John L. DuBois "Danish West Indies Postal Stationery" at PHILATELIC SHOW
2003 - William Benfield "Denmark. Essays and Proofs: The First One Hundred Years" at MINNESOTA STAMP EXPO
2004 - Stephen Kaplan "Usage of the Ring Stationery of Finland" at PNSE
2005 - Mark Lorentzen "Across the Danish Border" at RMSS 2005
2006 - Roger G. Schnell "Classic Iceland 1778-1902" (SCC Grand Award at
SANDICAL)
2006 - Birthe King "Conscience, Conflict and Camps 1932-1949" (SCC
National Meeting at WASHINGTON 2006)
2007 - Mark Lorentzen "Mail from Great Britain to Denmark, 1840-1880" at
NAPEX
2008 – Chris King “Slesvig: from Danish Duchy to Prussian Province 1587-1867” at CHICAGOPEX
2009 – Ross Olson “Sweden: The Medallion Definitives 1910-1919” at St. Louis Stamp Expo
2010 – Roger Quinby: “Finnish Railway to St. Petersburg 1870-1918” at WESTPEX
2011 – Geoffrey Noer: “Faroe Islands Mail 1751-1948” at Minnesota Stamp Expo
2012 – Gregory Frantz: “Finland Steamship Companies” at Rocky Mountain Stamp Show
2013 – Mats Roing: “Stockholm Local Delivery Postmarks 1855-1924” at Royal/Royale in
Winnipeg
2014 - Donald B. Brent “Denmark’s Wavy Line Design” SESCAL
2015 - Roger P. Quinby "Postal Censorship in the Grand Duchy of Finland 1914-1918" at
Minnesota Stamp Expo
2016 - Matthew Kewriga "Danish West Indies Foreign Mail 1748-UPU" CHICAGOPEX
2017 - Paul Clemmensen “Holbøll’s Danish Christmas Seals 1904-1927” WESTPEX
2018 - Robert W. Hisey "The First Definitives of the Finnish Republic" Sarasota National
Stamp Exhibition
2019 – Roger Quinby “The Classic Postal Cards of Finland” SEAPEX
2020 – No award
2021 – No award
2022 – Arnold Sorensen “Danish West Indies Printed Matter” St. Louis Stamp Expo
2023 – Cyril Schwenson “Handstamped Postal Stationery Covers and Lettersheets of Grand Duchy of Finland from the beginning 1845 up to the First UPU Colors 1884” WESTPEX
2024 - Jiří Kraus “First Swedish Antarctic Expedition: 1901-1904” CHICAGOPEX
2, 3, 4) SCC AWARD MEDALS
These awards are presented to recognize outstanding exhibits of
Scandinavian Philately, and to act as an incentive to encourage the
collecting, study and display of same. Membership in SCC is not
required to be eligible for these awards and the following criteria
govern the receipt of an SCC Medal.
1. The exhibit must be multi-frame and contain 90% Scandinavian
material. The remaining items must relate directly to the subject matter
presented.
2. SCC Medal Awards should not replace show awards but should be given
in addition to them, and should be presented at the time other Host Show
awards are given.
3. Judges have full discretion in making awards, using their own
standards. If no exhibits are judged worthy of one or more of these
awards, then the award will not be given out.
4. There will be four SCC Medal Awards available for presentation by
the Host Show, but supplied by SCC:
a. The Jed Richter Award for classic (traditional) format exhibit.
b. The Paul Jensen Award for postal history format exhibit.
c. The Victor Engstrom Award for exhibit research.
d. The Kaj Hellman Award for postal stationery exhibit.
5. Any exhibit that has received one of these four awards previously is eligible to receive it again.
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