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James Peter GOUGH

Philatelic Honors:

• Signer of the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 2012
(Worldwide Philatelic Hall of Fame)
• Elected to the USA’s Luff Award, 2020
• Elected to the Académie de Philatélie in France, 2000
• Awarded the “Crawford Medal” for best book of the philatelic year, RPSL, 2020
• Awarded the United Postal Stationery Society, Lewandowski Award, for best postal stationery book of the year, 2020.
• Awarded the “Lee Medal” for the best presentation at 5pm during the year at
the Royal Philatelic Society London, 2005
• Named “Best Article” for a 4-part article in Year 2010 in the Collectors Club Philatelist, the journal of the Collectors Club of New York.
• Awarded the “Apfelbaum Award 1995″ for the best article published during the year
in The American Philatelist.
• Elected Fellow, Royal Philatelic Society London
• Member, CCNY, since 1976

Philatelic Roles:

• Chief Judge, USA.
• FIP Judge
• Former Secretary of the FIP Grand Prix Club, 2001-2010.
• Former member of the Board of Trustees of the Philatelic Foundation
of New York, [two different periods]
• First President of the “Postage Due Mail Study Group” in the UK
o Elected President by acclamation and in absentia at the inaugural meeting in London, 2000
• Former member of the Board of Directors of the American Association
of Philatelic Exhibitors (AAPE)
• Former member of the APS’s Committee on Accreditation of National Exhibitions and Judges (CANEJ).
• Member of the jury for the USA’s first “Single Frame Exhibition” (AMERISTAMP’93, St. Louis, MO)
• Chairman of ANNAPEX’73 & ’74 (Annapolis [Maryland], Philatelic Exhibition)

Philatelic Exhibiting

International Achievements:

• Grand Prix d’Honneur (FIP): PhilexFrance 1999 (Paris)
• Grand Prix of the Exhibition (FEPA-Europe), Europhilex 2015 (London)
o Only American to win the European title (there were no Americans on the jury)
• Grand Prix of the Exhibition (FIAF-Americas) 2008 (Los Angeles)
• Candidate: Grand Prix International (FIP) World Stamp Exhibition 2016 (New York)
• Won “Large Gold” in three different classes of exhibiting – with the same exhibit
o Traditional, Postal History and Thematic

USA National Achievements:

• Champion of Champions, 2013
• Champion of Champions, 1992
• National Youth Champion 1973