Royal Challenge
Royalpex 2025 hosted a Royal Challenge with four Royal philatelic Societies participating. The competition proved very tight and the results were as follows:
Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand 350 points.
Royal Sydney Philatelic Club – 337 points.
Royal Philatelic Society of Victoria – 352 points.
Royal Philatelic Society London – 353 points.
Grand Award
The Grand Award was won by Jian Zhang for his exhibit People’s Republic of China “W” Series Issues (20 April 1967-1 July 1970) which obtained 95 points and a Large Gold medal.
| Royalpex 2025 Awards List | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Class 2.1a Traditional New Zealand and Australia | |||||
| Entrant | Title of Exhibit | Fr | Pts | Award | Fel/SP |
| Anthony Presgrave | Departmental Stamps of South Australia 1868 -1874 | 5 | 89 | G | |
| Alexander Cameron & | New Zealand 1958 QEII 2d Overprint Definitives | 2 | 79 | V | SP |
| Jonathon Pinckard | |||||
| Lionel Savins | The Small King George VI Definitive Stamps of New Zealand | 5 | 81 | LV | |
| Barbara Hancock | Australia's 'Peel and Stick' Revolution | 8 | 81 | LV | |
| Tim Beach | New Zealand 1960 Pictorials | 8 | 86 | G | |
| Andrew, Dove | New Zealand Definitives Showing the Head of King George V | 8 | 94 | LG | |
| Neil, Fenwick | New Zealand First Pictorial Issue 1898 | 8 | 89 | G | SP |
| Mark, Wooller | The 1935 New Zealand Pictorial Issue | 8 | 82 | LV | |
| Frank, Sharp | NZ's First Postage Stamps, the 'Chalon' Head, Full-Face Queen Series | 6 | 92 | LG | |
| John, Stimson | New Zealand's Advertisement Stamps of 1893 | 8 | 89 | G | |
| Murray, Willocks | The Design and Production of the 1960 Pictorial Issue of New Zealand | 6 | 83 | LV | |
| Class 2.1b Traditional Rest of the World | |||||
| Patricia Capill | Barbados - The 1925-35 George V Definitives | 5 | 91 | LG | |
| Ross Marshall | Iceland Pre-stamp to Independence 1824-1944 | 5 | 76 | V | |
| Vincent Neall | Iceland (1873-1944) | 2 | 69 | S | |
| Jeanette Banfield | I'm not square | 5 | 74 | LS | SP |
| Jian Zhang | People's Republic of China "W" Series Issues (20 April 1967-1 July 1970) | 5 | 95 | LG | |
| Colin Dyer | Plebiscites and Referendums of Europe | 5 | 71 | LS | |
| Ross Marshall | Poland First Official Stamp Issue 1920 | 8 | 87 | G | |
| Class 2.2a Postal History New Zealand or Australia | |||||
| Tony Schluter | New Zealand Overseas Mail Routes and Rates Pre 1874 | 8 | 89 | G | |
| [in memorial] | |||||
| John Stimson | Mail to New Zealand from the UK 1840-1900 | 5 | 88 | G | SP |
| Malcolm Groom | Australian External Airmails to 1945 | 8 | 86 | G | |
| Peter Allan | Australian Postal Rates 1934-1952 | 5 | 85 | G | |
| Barry Scott | New Zealand's WWI War Tax Surcharge, 1915-1920 | 8 | 77 | V | |
| Lindsay Chitty | Methods of Officially Sealing Mail in New Zealand | 8 | 87 | G | Fel/SP |
| Monica M Comrie | Civilian Censorship WWII Queensland Australia | 5 | 87 | G | |
| Colin Capill | New Zealand and the Universal Postal Union: The Circumvention of a U.P.U Regulation Between 1891 and 1922 | 5 | 92 | LG | Fel/SP |
| Class 2.2b Postal History Rest of the World | |||||
| Geoffrey Kellow | Sierra Leone - The Postal History of the King George VI Period 1937-56 | 8 | 80 | LV | |
| Ross Marshall | Austria Foreign Postal Rates 1918-1925 | 5 | 83 | LV | |
| Harry Swanljung | Development of Postal Services in Fiji ca 1900 to 1960's | 8 | 86 | G | |
| Ross Marshall | Hungary 1918-1921 Armistice to Treaty of Trianon Political and Postal History | 2 | 88 | G | |
| Ross Marshall | Poland Official Mail the Flat Fee/Lump Sum Regulations 1923-31 | 2 | 87 | G | |
| Class 2.2c Postal History Marcophily | |||||
| Pauline Schwartz | Postmarks of Otago Towns Dating From the 1860's Gold Rush | 3 | CP | ||
| Paul Wreglesworth | New Zealand Marine Post Offices (1864-1907) | 2 | 89 | G | |
| Leigh Gravestock | New Zealand Philatelic Exhibition Post Office Datestamps from 1938 to 2020s | 5 | 77 | V | |
| Lindsay Carswell | The Early Post Offices of Lyttleton Harbour 1849-1884 | 2 | 87 | G | |
| Class 2.2d Postal History Historical, social and special studies | |||||
| Tony Thackery | Celebrating the Introduction of the 1d Universal Postage Rate in New Zealand on 1 January 1901 | 5 | 91 | LG | Fel |
| Ross Marshall | The Greymouth Coalfield of New Zealand | 8 | 86 | G | |
| Ian McMahon | Guelph - The Royal City | 5 | 75 | V | |
| Denise Rosenfeldt | New Zealand Post Fast Post Service | 5 | 87 | G | |
| Lindsay Chitty | Patriotic Cover Use in New Zealand 1940 - 1948 | 4 | 71 | LS | |
| Ross Marshall | New Zealand Compulsory Registration | 5 | 87 | G | Fel |
| Ross Marshall | Richard Willcox NZD 1624 - Naval Career 1938-1947 | 4 | 82 | LV | |
| Mark Benvie | The Great War for New Zealand 1860-1873 | 4 | 96 | LG | Fel/SP |
| Class 2.3 Postal stationery | |||||
| Paula Sager | 1915-1918 Australian WWI Military Scenic Lettercards | 5 | 90 | LG | SP |
| Stephen Chivers | Burma - Occupation and Military Postal Stationery | 5 | 85 | G | |
| Bernard Beston | Ecuador - The Postal Stationery 1884 to 1929 | 8 | 90 | LG | |
| Simon Richards | Grenada Postal Stationery | 5 | 90 | LG | SP |
| Stephen Chivers | Leeward Islands Postal Stationery | 5 | 84 | LV | |
| Peter Tozer | A Study of the 18-Cent Australian Embossed Postal Stationery | 4 | 76 | V | |
| Tony Thackery | New Zealand Lettercards from the reigns of Queen Victoria to King George V | 5 | 78 | V | |
| Class 2.4 Aerophilately | |||||
| John Kersel | Mail Carried by NZ First Licensed Scheduled Air Services 1934-1946 | 8 | 88 | G | SP |
| Graham Miles | A Selection of World Airmail Covers 1911-1971 | 5 | 59 | B | |
| John Moore | Airmail From Zanzibar 1931 to 1966 | 5 | 81 | LV | |
| Robert Duns | The Development of the Imperial Airways Eastern Route 1929-1934 | 3 | 82 | LV | |
| Class 2.7 Open Philately | |||||
| Sue Vernall | Fromology to Philately | 4 | 81 | LV | |
| Ian Sadler | Japanese Conquest and Defeat in World War II | 7 | 88 | G | SP |
| Sue Smart | Equestrian Events at the Modern Olympics "The First 100 Years 1912-2012" | 5 | 67 | S | SP |
| Leonard Jury | Jenny the Dairy Cow | 8 | 84 | LV | |
| Susan Burn | Smithy - The Extraordinary Flying Life of One of the World's Most Renowned Pioneer Aviators | 5 | 84 | LV | |
| Lindsay Chitty | Maoritanga of New Zealand - the Culture of a Proud Race | 8 | 86 | G | |
| Darren Jones | Human Endeavour in Antarctica | 5 | 78 | V | |
| Mark Wooller | The Kauri Tree | 3 | 68 | S | |
| Sinclair McLaren | The Piano | 8 | 69 | S | |
| Monica M Comrie | The Sheep | 8 | 82 | LV | |
| Paul Stark | The Early Exploration of the Antarctic Continent | 5 | 80 | LV | |
| Class 2.8 Revenues | |||||
| Glen Stafford | Bolivian Revenues to 1906 | 5 | 88 | G | SP |
| Darryl Fuller | Israel Accounting Tax Stamps | 5 | 87 | G | |
| Paul Woods | New Zealand Arms Duty Stamps - Design and Use over 50 Years | 5 | 92 | LG | SP |
| Michael Chong | New Zealand Beer Duty | 4 | 86 | G | |
| Michael Chong | New Zealand Banking Institutions - the First 100 Years | 5 | 79 | V | |
| Kevin Thompson | The Revenues of Serbia 1881-1911 | 5 | 80 | LV | |
| Class 2.10 (2.1) Modern | |||||
| Charles Bromser | Women in German History Definitives | 5 | 81 | LV | |
| Class 2.11 Picture Postcards (2-8 frames) | |||||
| Pauline Schwartz | From the Royal Family's Family Album | 2 | 69 | S | |
| David Collyer | Boeing 747 - Queen of the Skies | 5 | 86 | G | SP |
| Sue Vernall | Thomas Fuller - Photographer - Amesbury, England | 3 | 86 | G | |
| Bruce Chadderton | Whakarewarewa - Living a Guided Life | 8 | 92 | LG | Fel/SP |
| Leonard Jury | The Scope of Taranaki | 8 | 0 | Nil | |
| Louise Brownie | Kauri | 3 | 79 | V | |
| Lindsay Chitty | Early Railway Picture Postcards of New Zealand | 8 | 79 | V | |
| R A (Bob) Gibson | America Drive Left or Right | 3 | 88 | G | |
| Ian McMahon | Sandgate | 5 | 87 | G | |
| Peter Boyle | Sixty-five acres of Innovation & Imagination (The NZ & South Seas International Exhibition 1925-26) | 6 | 76 | V | |
| Jenny Long | Estuary to Esplanade; the Sumner Coast Christchurch NZ | 3 | 88 | G | |
| Glen Reddiex | From Harbours to the High Seas - A history of battlecruiser H.M.S New Zealand | 3 | 81 | LV | |
| Jenny Long | Greetings: Cards and Postcards from a New Zealand Album. The Origin & Development of NZ Greeting Picture Postcards | 3 | 91 | LG | SP |
| Norman Banfield | Russia - Censored Picture Postcards 1895-1916 | 2 | 88 | G | |
| Class 2.12 One frame | |||||
| R John Comrie | Aircraft and Flight Covers 1921-1985 | 1 | 57 | B | |
| Michael Christensen | Chinese Stamps 1931-1949 using Sun Yat-Sen Portraits | 1 | 75 | V | |
| Val Sparrow | Parliament and Post Office and Pioneer Buildings | 1 | 56 | B | |
| Alan Kilpatrick | The Emu an Australian Icon | 1 | 79 | V | |
| Michael Christensen | Walter Quensell - Tin Can Mail Correspondent | 1 | 72 | LS | |
| Tim Schofield | 1915 Panama-Pacific International Expo Post Cards | 1 | 74 | LS | |
| Lynda Saunders | A Kaiteriteri Summer | 1 | 76 | V | |
| Patricia Capill | Barbados: The Early Hotel Industry in Barbados | 1 | 81 | LV | |
| Alastair Watson | The Dolphins at Napier Marineland of New Zealand 1965-2008 | 1 | 86 | G | |
| Jeff Long | The Wanganui River Road | 1 | 89 | G | |
| Terry Grant | Scientists Who Changed History | 1 | 57 | B | |
| Darren Jones | 1d. Black, World's First Adhesive Stamp | 1 | 76 | V | |
| Fred Saunders | Forty Cent Brown Kiwi | 1 | 79 | V | |
| Greg Chiles | Jamaica War Tax | 1 | 82 | LV | SP |
| Stephen Chivers | New Zealand 1997 Christmas | 1 | 83 | LV | |
| Fred Saunders | New Zealand Rock Wren Stamp 1991-1994 | 1 | 78 | V | |
| Kevin Thompson | NZ Halfpenny War Stamp 1915 | 1 | 80 | LV | |
| Ross Marshall | Poland Official Mail 1921-1923 | 1 | 88 | G | SP |
| Len Jury | T I Archer - Designs for 1935 Pictorials | 1 | 84 | LV | |
| Murray Clark | The Halfpenny Newspaper Stamp of New Zealand | 1 | 82 | LV | |
| Monica M Comrie | Civil Censorship Northern Territory Australia WWII | 1 | 87 | G | |
| Patricia Capill | Denmark: The Sunday Letter Service 1929-1972 | 1 | 86 | G | |
| Kevin Thompson | Fetes and Carnivals | 1 | 76 | V | |
| Andrew Dove | Internees and POWs in New Zealand in W.W.I | 1 | 89 | G | Fel |
| Andrew Dove | New Zealand Express Delivery | 1 | 85 | G | |
| Lindsay Chitty | The Postal Use of the New Zealand ½d Newspaper Stamp | 1 | 84 | LV | |
| Fred Saunders | Abnormal Ink Jet Postal Cancellations 1994-2002 | 1 | 77 | V | |
| Mark Diserio | Australia - King George VI Embossed Oval Designs Used On Stamped To Order Postal Stationery - 1937 To 1951 | 1 | 89 | G | |
| Patricia Capill | Barbados: The Halfpenny Postal Stationery Rate 1882-1950 | 1 | 78 | V | |
| Robert Lyon | New Zealand Advertisement Lettercards 1926-1964 | 1 | 70 | LS | |
| Peter Tozer | Plain Australian Stamped-To-Order Prestamped Envelopes | 1 | 72 | LS | |
| Class 2.13 (a1) Youth up to 15 | |||||
| Emma Rowe | Dessert - A History of Temptation | 2 | 83 | LV | |
| Class 2.13 (b1) Youth 16-18 | |||||
| Samantha Rowe | Children's Literature - A History | 3 | 84 | LV | SP |
| Class 3.2 Frugal | |||||
| Jeff Long | Where Were You in '74? | 4 | 57 | B | |
| Class 3.3a First Day Covers | |||||
| Tony Thackery | New Zealand Children's Health Camps Official Souvenir Covers 1941-1969 | 5 | 85 | G | |
| Paul Xavier | Territory of Papua New Guinea - Predecimal FDC's 1952-1965 | 3 | 83 | LV | |
| Class 3.6 National 1 Frame (Cinderella,frugal.modern, topical) | |||||
| Sue Vernall | Amateur Radio - QSL Stamps | 1 | 84 | LV | Fel |
| John Goose | The 1948 Liberation Issue on FDC from Guernsey | 1 | 76 | V | |
| Matt Henderson | Sunshine | 1 | 72 | LS | |
| Class 3.7a Youth development | |||||
| Daniel Fagerlund | Christmas Seals Help Fight Tuberculosis | ½ | 66 | S | |
| Class 3.9a Adult development | |||||
| Francesca Giraldo | British Commonwealth 1937 Coronation Issues of King George VI 12 May 1937 | 1 | 71 | LS | |
| Francesca Giraldo | Space Exploration | 1 | 78 | V | SP |
| Warren Edlin | Soviet Union Postal History | 2 | 69 | S | |