Washington 2006, the famous American world philatelic exhibition, which ran from 27th May June 3rd at the Washington, DC Convention Center, Washington, USA came to an end recently. There were great exhibits to be seen with lots of the world’s rarities on display, besides more than 200 dealers on the floor. More information can be viewed and downloaded on the show’s official website.
Steve Washburne, PPS member from the USA was a director on the Jurors panel this year. There were quite a few Portugal and ex-colonies displays at this prestigious event. Some of these exhibitors are PPS members. Details and results as below:
- John N. Liles – “Portugal Ceres” – VERMEIL MEDAL
- Manuel A. D. Lima Torres – “Portugal Pre-Philatelic” – LARGE VERMEIL
- David Stirrups “Spanish Post Office & Gibraltar Mail 1850-75” – VERMEIL MEDAL
- John R. G. Dahl “Revenues of the Republic of Portugal from 1910” – GOLD MEDAL
- Philip E. Parker “WW I GEA: The Portuguese Connection” – VERMEIL MEDAL
- Cheong-Too Choi “Pre-Adhesive Postal History of Macau” – GOLD MEDAL
- Stephen T.Y. Chan “King Carlos Issues of Macau” – LARGE VERMEIL
- Les Glasman “Mozambique & Mozambique Company” – GOLD MEDAL
- Lutz Hohensang “Portugal – D. Luis Embossed Postal Stationery” – LARGE VERMEIL
- Eduardo & Luis Barreiros “História do Serviço Postal Militar” (Literature Class)- VERMEIL MEDAL
- Pedro Vaz Pereira “Os Correios Portugueses Entre 1853-1900 … (Literature Class) – GOLD MEDAL
- Ronald Strawser “Belgian Congo Mols Issue of 1894-1925” – LARGE VERMEIL
- Y Khai Weng an “Mozambique Company” – LARGE VERMEIL
- Graham Cosh “Variations on German Aerophilately 1888-1938” – LARGE VERMEIL
Also, the ISPP has a one frame exhibit “Collecting P & C” in the Society/ Club section.
Steve Washburne / João Paulo Cota
A new philatelic book was recently published in Portugal by the distinguished Portuguese Military Postal Historians, twin brothers Drs. Eduardo and Luis Barreiros. The book, “GUERRA COLONIAL 1961 – 1974: HISTÓRIA DO SERVIÇO POSTAL MILITAR” (Colonial War 1961 – 1974: History of the Military Postal Service) has superb in-depth and well researched information on the Colonial War History of its ex-colonies and is profusely illustrated with high quality images of real photographs and scans of postal history items, some of them very rare that belong to the author’s collection. The book has about 400 pages that deals with the postal history of the Portuguese colonial war in high detail, its postal services, cancels, civilian movements and the mail transport. It also lists all the types used in colonial military mail, this being the first attempt by anyone to produce one such catalogue of military related aerogrammes. Both authors are active members of the Portuguese Philatelic Society, UK, and they can both be contacted via 
