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Grand and Large Gold
First Day Cover Philatelic Exhibiting: A Master Class (93 points)
Andrew McFarlane
Reserve Grand
A Study in Race, Racism, and Presidential Politics (92 points)
Calvin Mitchell & Baasil Wilder
Reprints Counterfeits and Forgeries of Mexico's First Design, 2nd ed (93 points)
Marc E. Gonzales
Articles
Large Gold
Korean War POW Mail, 70 Years After the Armistice (90 points)
Anthony S. Bard
Zloty Centennial (90 points)
Ronald J. Kimley
Objective Methods for Philatelic Grading (90 points)
David B. Waller
The Death of the Phillippine Clipper (91 points)
Dr. Bruce Arlen Wasserman
The Little Route that Couldn't: The Short Life of the Minneapolis to Duluth Cam 9 Spur (91 points)
Dr. Bruce Arlen Wasserman
Gold
Plating Finland's Serpentine Rouletted Stamps (86 points)
Ed Fraser
Pep Pills, Porn and Postage Stamps: 1983 Counterfeiting of the 20-cent Flag (88 points)
Tim Lindemuth
Postal Stationery as Maximum Card Forerunners (86 points)
Sun-Yu Ng
When the US Post Office Silenced the Father of Rural Free Delivery (85 points)
Michael H. Wing
Georgia Postmaster and County Postmarks (85 points)
Michael H. Wing
Large Vermeil
Pursuing UOs in Northern New Jersey (81 points)
Lloyd A. de Vries
The Real Stalag 13: Camp Hammelburg (81 points)
Ken Gilbert
Great Barrier Reef on Stamps (77 points)
Lokeswara Rao Madiraju
Silver
Royal Arch Oak (68 points)
Daniel Maddalino
The USS Manley (DD-74) at Puerto Colombia (68 points)
Juan L. Riera
Silver Bronze
A Basic Classical Postal History Review (62 points)
Daniel Maddalino
Fishing with FDR (64 points)
Juan L. Riera
Catalogs
Large Gold
Western Ukraine 1918-1919: A Specialized Philatelic Catalog (93 points)
Ingert Kuzych
Also APS Research Medal
Electronic Material
Gold
Croatia (Nezavisna Drzava Hrvatska) 1941-1945 Concentration Camp Cards (87 points)
Philip J. Hughes
Online Battleship Desk Reference (87 points)
Robert Mustacich
Large Silver
Celestial Chronicles-Stellar Impressions (74 points)
Capt. Vijay Wadhwa
Silver
Pennywise - All About Money (67 points)
Capt. Vijay Wadhwa
Silver Bronze
Concepts to Cosmos (64 points)
Capt Vijay Wadhwa
Bronze
Gandhi Connections (57 points)
Sushil Mehra
Handbooks
Large Gold
Rebel Document, Yankee Stamps - The untold Story of How the Union Collected Its Stamp Taxes in the Confederacy, During Wartime Occupation and by Postwar Retroactive Stamping (91 points)
Michael Mahler
Gold
The Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery of Guatemala (87 points)
Michael Bloom
Postal History of Cowlitz County, Washington (89 points)
Ted Gruber
The Port Hood Provisional Stamps of 1899, A Literature Review and Census (87 points)
Gordon Smith
Silver
Ramayana on Stamps (69 points)
Lokeswara Rao Madiraju
Silver Bronze
Kashmir Calling (63 points)
Sushil Mehra
A Post Office Adventure Along the British Indian Railway (61 points)
Sushil Mehra
Journal/Periodical
Large Gold
La Posta: The Journal of American Postal History (92 points)
Peter Martin
Bulletin of the Polonus Polish Philatelic Society (90 points)
Polonus Polish Philatelic Society
NJPH, Journal of the New Jersey Postal History Society (90 points)
Robert G. Rose
Gold
El Quetzal - Journal of the International Society of Guatemala Collectors (85 points)
Richard L. Eldridge
TELL - Journal of the American Helvetia Philatelic Society (86 points)
Roger Heath
The Meter Stamp Society Quarterly Bulletin 2024 (Volume 76) (86 points)
Meter Stamp Society
PA Postal History Journals (86 points)
Pennsylvania Postal Historian
Large Vermeil
The Cuban Philatelist (84 points)
The Cuban Philatelic Society of America
The Album Page (83 points)
Oregon Stamp Society
The Roadrunner - Journal of the Arizona & New Mexico Postal History Society (84 points)
David Totel