Philamercury Digital Rendezvous 2020 (PDR2020)

Best In Show - Daniel Knowles, exhibit #16

Thank you to all participants!

In a continuing effort to promote philatelic exhibiting, I am pleased to announce a one frame (16 pages give or take) online philatelic competition - Philamercury Digital Rendezvous  (PDR2020). Exhibits may be submitted starting on August 1st.

The deadline for exhibit submission is end of day August 31, 2020. No rules as to content, open to all, no exhibit fees. A single Grand Award will be determined by vote of fellow exhibitors (no voting rules or guidelines, let common sense dictate your vote). Submission format guidelines here. Voting will end on September 7, 2020 and winner will be announced the next day. In the event of a tie vote, the earliest exhibit to reach the high vote count will be the winner.

Grand Award will be a 1oz St Gaudens gold eagle

Past PDRs - There were 46 entries in PDR2018 linked from page here. The 50 entries for PDR2017 are linked from the index page here and the 96 entries for PDR 2016  page here.

  

 PDR 2020 Grand Award (different date though)
 

A listing of exhibits follows


 

Exhibitor

Exhibit Title (with link)

#1 Trepel, Scott A Well-Hanged Collection
#2 Handelman, David BNA money letters
#3 Handelman, David Return receipt in the Austrian Empire (pre GPU)
#4 Drews, Richard Trans-Oceanic Uses of the 30 Cent U.S. Issues of 1861-1868
#5 Duffney, WIlliam Charismatic Connecticut
#6 Duffney, William Quaker Charity During Black '47
#7 Gutman, Michael The Very Short Official Life of E7, the “Merry Widow"
#8 Shoults, Gregory Washington & Franklin Coils 1910 Issue
#9 Schwartz, Mark Boston's Use of the 1847 Issue
#10 Schwartz, Mark The Use of Boston's "PAID in Grid" Cancels: 1851-1859
#11 Schwartz, Mark The Postal Markings of Newbury and Newburyport, Mass. during the Stampless Period: 1755-1855
#12 Fuchs, Rainer Iraq Railway Post Stamps, 1928 - ca. 1942
#13 Fiset, Louis

Political Prisoner's Mail from the 1848 Paris "June Days Uprising"

#14 Forster, Dale Astoria - First Western Post Office
#15 Briggs, Albert (Chip) One for a Man, Two for a Horse (Patent Medicine)
#16 Knowles, Dan United States Demonetization and Transition to the 1861 Issue Stamps
#17 Lawrence, Ken The Mails of Navassa Island
#18 Walske, Steve The British Blockade during the Revolutionary War, September 1775 to March 1783
#19 Barany, Donald American Postal Folk Art, New Orleans 1870's - 1880's
#20 Frajola, Richard Naples Trinacria Issues of 1858 - 1860, Genuine, Postal Forgeries and Philatelic Forgeries
#21 Gliedman, Chip Leominster, Mass. Provisional Postage Due and Instructional Labels
#22 Watson, Bob Letters from New Zealand to the USA in the Nineteenth Century
#23 Harris, Labron Non Postal Uses of the 3 Cent Nesbitt Envelope
#24 Mahler, Michael Thar She Blows! U.S. Whaling Fiscal History of the Civil War Era
#25 Mahler, Michael California Blues: the Iconic 1857 “Gold Rush Revenues”
#26 Mahler, Michael A Fiscal History “Perfect Storm”: the U.S. $15 Mortgage Stamp, 1862–1872
#27 Gliedman, Chip The Water-Cure
#28 Frajola, Richard The Making of Sperati Reproductions
#29 Snow, David 1850 First Issue of Austria and Lombardy-Venetia: A Study of Uses
#30 Vora, Ravi Postal History of the Confederate States of America Department of State
#31 Clinkenbeard, Thomas British Empire World War I Tax Stamps
#32 Clinkenbeard, Thomas Germany's "Lost Colonies"
#33 Clinkenbeard, Thomas Countries Established from WWI
#34 Ley, Michael

Burma Civil Censor Hand Stamps, 1939-1943

#35 Crown Jr., Francis Bold & Fancy, Georgia Stampless Rate Markings
#36 Gutman, Michael Elusive Postal History of Hale & Company, 1843-1845
#37 Shoults, Gregory Washington & Franklin Third Bureau Imperforate Coils
#38 Myerson, James Pages from an Overland Mail Collection
#39 Stach, Ken Western Expresses
#40 Zarif, Mashur The Format International Security Printers Ltd. issues of Bangladesh
#41 Mouritsen, Henrik Danish pre-UPU letter rates paid in øre currency to foreign destinations
#42 Shoults, Gregory Washington & Franklin Coils, 1908 Perf-12 Issues
#43 Taylor, Lavar German Reply Cards Used Back to Germany from German Post Offices in East Africa
#44 Prior, Scott Expressing with Samuel W. Langton, 1852-1865
#45 Trondsen, Eigil Cunard Line: The Ships and the Transatlantic Mail 1840-1867, the Monopoly Years
#46 Rhoade, Phil WWII Czech Patriotic Labels
#47 Eubanks, Gordon U.S. International Air Mail in the Months Leading Up To the Attack on Pearl Harbor
#48 Snow, David 1860 U.S. Star Die 3c Postal Stationery: A Study of Southern Uses
#49 Krieg, Harald The Fiscal Philately of German South-West Africa
#50 Crown Jr., Francis Uses of the 14¢ American Indian Stamp
#51 Ryterband, Daniel United States Free Frank Covers
#52 Frajola, Richard A Norwich Meld: Steamboat, Railway and Post Office Mails
#53 Rhoade, Phil 1995 Atomic Bomb Protest Labels
#54 Loh, Margaret Commercial Uses of the Australian Pound-denominated Stamps
#55 Preston, Dickson Greenland Mail during World War II
#56 Adams, Fran United Nations Memorial Service, Muir Woods, 19 May 1945
#57 Adams, Fran Post Cards of the 1899 Hague Peace Conference
#58 Adams, Fran The Seven Schwabians, A Pike and a Rake
#59 Mingee, Rick San Francisco’s Renaissance From Ruin
The 1909 Portola Festival
#60 Taschenberg, Richard 12¢ Bi-Color Envelope Usage
#61 Taylor, Lavar "Flying Solo": Solo stamp usages to Germany Via Air Mail
#62 Harris, Labron The 1897 First Bureau Issue Used in the other Side of The World
#63 Rhoade, Phil Japan Commemorates Pearl Harbor
#64 Frajola, Richard The Earliest Mails of Norwich, Connecticut, 1755 to 1792
#65 Faux, Rob Postal Neighbors with France
#66 Kewriga, Matt The First United States and Brazil Mail Steamship Company, 1865 - 1875
#67 Lanphear, Les New South Wales Governor Frank Mail, 1895 to 1902
#68 Faux, Rob Because I Wanted To
#69 Barlow, William The 'Post Obitum' Official Seal of 1877
#70 Gregg, Lawrence Happy Hour Special, Oysters and Beer
#71 Snow, David U.S. Hotel Forwarders Mail Markings 1840-1854

Richard Frajola (Sep 8, 2020)