The Walter W. Hopkinson Memorial Award was established in 1953 in honor of
Walter W. Hopkinson, by his wife, Mrs. Constance B. Hopkinson. The award
is given annually to the author of the best article or series of articles
published in The United States Specialist, the monthly journal of the
United States Stamp Society.
The award honors Hopkinson's interest in philatelic scholarship and the
dissemination of research and knowledge through the Society's
publications. Hopkinson was a plate
number specialist as well as a vigorous supporter and long-time member
of the Bureau Issues Association, as the Society was then known. The
first award was given in 1954, and it has been presented annually
thereafter. The award consists of an engraved plaque with the Society's
seal, and an honorarium.
Hopkinson Memorial Award Winners
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Publication
Year | Winner | Article/Series Title |
| 1953 | Norman W. Kempf | Stuart Relief Breaks |
| 1954 | George W. Brett | The 8¢ Bi-Color, 1954 Series of Ordinaries |
| 1955 | Walter E. Hopper | Electric Eye Types |
| 1956 | G. William Schall | The Errors and Varieties |
| 1957 | A.L. Van Nest | 2¢ Trans-Mississippi, A Study of Plate Pairs |
| 1958 | George W. Brett | The Giori Press |
| 1959 | Dana A. Barrell | Inter. Hand-Driven Cancelling Machine |
| 1960 | Robert L. Markovits | The United States Special Delivery Issue |
| 1961 | Lewis A. Miers | Odd Shades Among the Bureau Issues |
| 1962 | Meyer Tuchinsky | The U.S. Postal Agency, Shanghai, China |
| 1963 | Jerome Wolf | The Bureau Maketh...The Bureau Changeth |
| 1964 | Lewis A. Miers | The Two and Five Dollar Stamps of the Bureau Issues |
| 1965 | Walter A. McIntire | United States Postage Due Stamps |
| 1966 | Rev. John C. Ruback | United States Tax Paid Revenue Stamps |
| 1967 | Henry F. Davis | The Stamp of Approval |
| 1968 | Loran C. French | Plate Varieties on Bureau Issue Plate Blocks |
| 1969 | J. Frank Braceland, Jr. | Newspapers and Periodicals |
| 1970 | Robert C. Lorenzen | First Bureau Series (Plate Markings and Positions) |
| 1971 | Jack V. Harvey | The B.I.A. and First Day Covers |
| 1972 | Ralph L. Sloat | The U.S. Airmail Special Delivery Issue |
| 1973 | Samuel Smith | RN Revisited: A Survey of U.S. Revenue Stamped Paper |
| 1974 | Clark S. Crane | Types or Constant Varieties Luxembourg-Netherlands Issue, 1943 |
| 1975 | Ralph L. Sloat | Farley's Follies |
| 1976 | Loran C. French | Plate Varieties (Committee Reports) |
| 1977 | Henry W. Beecher | Series Analyzing and Interpreting Postal Rates |
| 1978 | John S. Meek | Siderographers and Plate Finishers Initials |
| 1979 | Randell E. Bart | United States Commodity or Non-Postal Booklet Issues |
| 1980 | Charles Yeager | New Issues Forum Series |
| 1981 | Roland Rustad | The Fifth Bureau Issue (1938 - 1943) The Presidential Series |
| 1982 | Steven R. Belasco | Characteristics of Genuine Vending and Affixing Machine Perforations |
| 1983 | John M. Hotchner | Major Perforation Varieties of the 20th Century |
| 1984 | Larry S. Weiss | Washington-Franklin Head Issues |
| 1985 | Stuart Gitlow | Contemporary Postal History |
| 1986 | W. Wallace Cleland | Washington-Franklin Series Coil Waste Issue |
| 1987 | James H. Bruns | Mail Delivery Trucks: A Decade of Decision |
| 1988 | Bruce H. Mosher | Plating the 1987 Locomotives Booklet Panes |
| 1989 | Jay Stotts | Rate Usages of the Fourth Bureau Issue |
| 1990 | Louis Repeta | Stickney Rotary Press Printing Varieties |
| 1991 | Larry Weiss | Designing and Engraving the Washington-Franklin Series |
| 1992 | George W. Brett | The U.S. 3¢ 1890-1894 Die and the 1894 Types I and II |
| 1993 | John Meek | Tax Act 1898 |
| 1994 | Gary Griffith | U.S. 1922 Definitive Series, The Fourth Bureau Issue |
| 1995 | Kenneth Diehl | The 2¢ Stamps of the First Bureau Issue |
| 1996 | Louis Repeta | Ths Stickney Rotary Printing Press |
| 1997 | Brian Baba | United States Savings Booklets |
| 1998 | James H. Patterson | Small Die Proofs of the 20th Century's Second Quarter |
| 1999 | Roger S. Brody | Y1.9K - Handling the Mails at the Turn of the Century |
| 2000 | Larry S. Weiss | Detecting Watermarks |
| 2001 | John S. Meek | United States Postage Selvage Markings |
| 2002 | Wallace Cleland | Series on Plate Numbers and Plate Markings |
| 2003 | Roger S. Brody | Raymond Ostrander Smith Pencil Drawings - Series 1902 |
| 2004 | Melvin Getlan | Follow-up On Early Usage Of Dummy Test Stamps |
| 2005 | Nicholas Lombardi | The U. S. Registry Label & Receipt of 1907 |
| 2006 | Wallace Cleland | AMG Plate Blocks |
| 2007 | Robert G. Rufe | The U. S. Special Handling Issues |
| 2008 | Larry S. Weiss | Why Collect the U.S. Washington-Franklin Heads? A 100th Anniversary Tribute |
| 2009 | Larry S. Weiss & Gerald Nylander | Series on Two patterns of ‘USPS’ Double Line Watermarks |
| 2010 | Harry K. Charles, Jr. | Series on Postal and Treasury Savings Systems |
