EXHIBITS - PIPEX 2024 |
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ALL exhibits will be mounted physically in frames at the show and will be judged in the frames.
Exhibitors are encouraged also
to submit their exhibits virtually, to be posted on the PIPEX website.
May 3 - 5, 2024
Monarch Hotel,
12566 SE 93rd Ave,
Sponsored by: THE NORTHWEST FEDERATION OF STAMP CLUBS
Individual Exhibits
Prospectus for
PIPEX 2024 – Downloadable, printable PDF file Exhibit Entry Form – Downloadable, printable PDF file
Club Exhibits Exhibits from each of the clubs in the Northwest Federation of Stamp Clubs are welcome. Club Exhibits are intended to showcase the stamp clubs in the Northwest Federation and the interests of their members, and to encourage exhibiting among their members. Each exhibit is one frame, with pages supplied preferably by fifteen club members, plus a page of information about the club. Club exhibits will not be judged by the PIPEX jury, but show attendees will vote on the best, and a trophy will be awarded (to be held until the next PIPEX). Club exhibit entry forms should be emailed to Norma Nielson to arrive by March 25, 2024, in order to be listed in the show program. Club Exhibit Prospectus -- Downloadable, printable PDF file Club Exhibit Entry Form -- Downloadable, printable PDF file Entry form here. |
Exhibit No. | Name | No. of Frames | Exhibit Title: if the title is bold, the link is to the complete exhibit; otherwise, the link is to the title page |
Address | Description | ||
Status | |||
Competitive Exhibits | |||
1 | Norma Nielson | 4 | Fabergé’s Imperial Easter Eggs: Exquisite Extravagance |
Eugene, OR | Postcard exhibit showing Fabergé’s Imperial Easter eggs. All postcards of the multi-million-dollar eggs are modern because for decades they were not deemed to be of particular artistic or cultural value. | ||
Accepted | |||
2 | Hugh Lawrence | 8 | Postal Rates during the Gold Yuan Era |
Encenitas, CA | The Chinese Hyperinflation of 1948 | ||
Accepted | |||
3 | Hugh Lawrence | 1 | The Non-Denominated Domestic Air Letter Sheets of China (1948-1956) |
Encenitas, CA | An Experiment, A Political Statement, and an Unintended Gift | ||
Accepted | |||
4 | Ralph Nafziger | 7 | Auxiliary Markings on U.S. First Day Covers |
Albany, OR | The flow of first day covers through the mail stream, as evidenced by a wide variety of auxiliary markings and postmarks, is shown. | ||
Accepted | |||
5 | Yumiko Ramirez | 1 | Mexico through the Eyes of Lance Wyman |
Imperial Beach, CA | The story of stamps designed by Lance Wyman with special attention to translate into Spanish an iconic journey that started with winning the 1968 Mexicaqn Olympic logo competition. | ||
Accepted | |||
6 | Eric Knapp | 8 | Alaska at War |
Anchorage, AK | The little-known story of World War II in Alaska and Western Canada. From neglected territories to a campaign of reconquest to a vital supply conduit. | ||
Accepted | |||
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Withdrawn | |||
8 | Hugh Sebag-Montefiore |
5 | Napoleon Bonaparte: From Waterloo to Hôtel des Invalides |
Portland, OR | Using picture postcards, this exhibit traces the fate of Napoleon from his defeat at Waterloo through his exile and death in St Helena to reburial in Paris. | ||
Accepted | |||
9 | Lloyd Ferrell | 1 | The U.S. Battleship Oregon (1893-1919) |
Beaverton, OR | The career of the battleship Oregon is illustrated using mail, postcards, and other material from 1893 launching to final decommissioning in 1919. | ||
Accepted | |||
10 | Louis Fiset | 1 | 1871 Commune of Paris Prisoners' Mail |
Seattle, WA | Mail of prisoners generated during the first months after the fall of the Commune of Paris to French troops in May 1871. | ||
Accepted | |||
11 | Louis Fiset | 6 | Japanese American Soldiers in World War II |
Seattle, WA | Mail of Japanese American soldiers from 1941-1947, including basic training, six campaigns in Italy and France, and linguist service in the Pacific theater. | ||
Accepted | |||
12 | George Struble | 10 | Getting Swiss Airmail off the Ground |
Salem, OR | Development of Swiss airmail from the first flown mail in 1913 to 1939, when WWII shut it down. | ||
Accepted | |||
13 | George Struble | 7 | SCADTA Mail to and from Switzerland |
Salem, OR | Mail carriage by SCADTA was not a government service until 1932, so SCADTA's own stamps were needed. The story continues until nationalization in 1940. | ||
Provisional | |||
14 | Tim Bergquist | 1 | The 13-cent U.S. Commemorative stamps |
Eugene, OR | This exhibit highlights the various 13-cent commemorative stamps issued by the U.S. | ||
Accepted | |||
15 | Dickson Preston | 2 | U.S. Army Post Offices in Greenland 1941-1945 |
Seattle, WA | Show U.S. APO mail from isolated outposts in Greenand, including U.S. bases, postmark types, and covers with special features. | ||
Withdrawn | |||
16 | Dickson Preston | 4 | Posthorn Postal History |
Seattle, WA | Uses of the 1951 Defiitive Series of West Germany. | ||
Withdrawn | |||
17 | Dickson Preston | 1 | Off-Color 3¢ Commemoratives 1893-1940 |
Seattle, WA | Show uses of the four 3c commemoratives which were not issued in purple, the standard color for 3c stamps from 1890-1945. | ||
Withdrawn | |||
18 | Ulf J. Lindahl | 5 | Project 19 Most Secret - APO 617 in Eritrea |
Riverside, CT | Postal history of top secret Project 19 - APO 617 at Guia, Eritrea in 1942-45 | ||
Accepted | |||
19 | Alan Hanzl | 10 | The Partitioning of Czechoslovakia (1938-1939) |
Mayvield Village, OH | A presentation of the stamp issues created for the various Czechoslovak territories from 18 June 1938 to 31 August 1939 encompassing the partitioning period. | ||
Accepted | |||
20 | James A. Buckner | 8 | Czechoslovakia's Newspaper Stamps 1918-1939 |
Athens, GA | This exhibit tells the story of the Czechoslak Republic's newspaper post during the period of the First Republic (1918-1939). | ||
Accepted | |||
21 | Emory Earl Toops | 1 | The Insurrectionist Issues of Laos, 1961 and 1974 |
Fort Wayne, IN | A one-frame study of stamps issued in 1961 by the "Neutralist" alternative government of the Kingdom of Laos and the 1974 Communist Pathet Lao issues. | ||
Accepted | |||
22 | Christopher Dahle | 4 | Philately of Rhodesia and Nyasaland – 1954-1964 |
Cedar Rapids, IA | The stamps produced during the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and their postal usage, postage due, meters and free franks. | ||
Accepted | |||
23 | Carol J. Edholm | 1 | Cacao: The Path to Chocolate |
Mountlake Terrace, WA | Postcard exhibit walks through from cacao pods to processing into cocoa to finished chocolate product. | ||
Accepted | |||
24 | Mikayla A. Kaloustian | 1 | African Elephants: An Animal That Never Forgets |
Menifee, CA | A topical single frame youth exhibit on African elephants | ||
Accepted | |||
25 | John M. Hotchner | 10 | 20th century U.S. auxiliary markings documenting delay of, or inability to deliver, the mail. The first 50 years (1900-1950). |
Falls Church, VA | |||
Accepted | |||
26 | Roger Heath | 5 | 100 years of Refused Markings on Swiss Mail |
Port Townsend, WA | The development of Swiss refusé markings between the 1850s and 1950s. | ||
Accepted | |||
27 | Donna Trathen | 1 | Canada's First RCMP Stamp (1935) |
Calgary, AB | To show the design, production, varieties, and usages of the 1935 RCMP stamp. | ||
Accepted | |||
28 | Roger Santala | 1 | Jaakarit: The 27th Royal Prussian Jager Battalion |
Billings, MT | 27th Jager Battalion: Finnish volunteers trained by Germany, serving on the East Front 1916, returning to Finland during the civil war. Military history told by post. | ||
Accepted | |||
29 | David Spivack | 2 | The Overprinted Great Britain ½d Jubilee used in Bechuanaland Protectorate, 1887-1902 |
Irvine, CA | The Exhibit shows comprehensively the development of the overprinted halfpenny stamp from the Great Britain Jubilee series used in British Bechuanaland and Bechuanaland Protectorate in 1887 through 1902. | ||
Accepted | |||
30 | David Spivack | 4 | The Great Britain Unappropriated Dies Appropriated for Use in British Bechuanaland and Bechuanaland Protectorate from 1884 through 1918 |
Irvine, CA | The Exhibit reviews the development and use of the Great Britain Unappropriated Dies stamps used in British Bechuanaland and Bechuanaland Protectorate from 1884 through 1918. | ||
Accepted | |||
31 | Steve Staton | 5 | Las Vegas Performers and Artists on Picture Postcards |
Salem, OR | The exhibit hopes to keep alive the memory of those who have performed in Las Vegas. | ||
Accepted | |||
32 | Donald Blais | 6 | The Evolution of Bridges |
Polson, MT | The origins of bridge forms and their construction materials from prehistoric to modern times. | ||
Accepted | |||
33 | Louis Fiset | 1 | U.S. Internment of Latin American Deportees (1942-1946) |
Seattle,WA | To show internment of German, Italian, and Japanese civilians brought to U.S. for confinement in War and Justice Department camps. | ||
Provisional | |||
34 | Dann Mayo | 1 | LATI Mail to the United States |
Beloxi, MS | Mail carried by the short-lived Italian air service via South America. | ||
Accepted | |||
35 | Alfredo Frohlich | 8 | United States of Columbia 1868-1881 |
Aventura, FL | Development of the six Colombian Post classic issues of 1868 prior to Colombia joining the U.P.U. | ||
Accepted | |||
36 | Hal Leland | 3 | The One Cent Issue of 1869: The Making and Use of a Classic U.S. Stamp |
Edmonds, WA | The story of the one-cent U.S. 1869 stamp, as told via essays, proofs, stamps, cancellations and covers. | ||
Accepted | |||
37 | Jason Yang | 5 | Handling undeliverable mail to killed and missing soldiers in the German feldpost system, 1939-1945 |
Richmond, BC | Applying return markings on mail to KIA/MIA soldiers in WWII: from derivatives of WWI styles used in 1939, to different formats per wartime Reichpost directives. | ||
Accepted | |||
38 | David Jay | 6 | Rail and Ship Marks of the St. Petersburg City Post, 1870-1916 |
Portland, OR | This exhibit displays St. Petersburg City Post markings used 1870-1916, including Station and Port, sorting, and TPO-like marks, based on an unprecedented assemblage of material. | ||
Accepted | |||
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Noncompetitive Exhibits | |||
101 | Ralph Nafziger | 1 | What are Auxiliary Markings? |
Albany, OR | |||
Accepted | |||
102 | Mark Loomis | The Southern Rhodesia 50TH Anniversary of the Occupation of Matabeleland Commemmorative | |
This one-frame exhibit shows the issued stamp, production, first day covers and use of the Southern Rhodesia Occupation of Matabeleland Commemorative issue of 1943. | |||
Accepted |
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