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SESCAL (Stamp Exhibition of Southern California) had been one of the main venues for collectors of Japanese related material to display their philatelic exhibits and literature articles. Sadly, SESCAL has announced that there will be No SESCAL show in 2023 or in the Foreseeable Future!  More information can be found on the SESCAL website here.

ISJP members who were winners in the SESCAL literature competitions are shown below.

2022:

Vermeil

Domestic registration labels and stamps used from 1897-1945″  by Anker Nielsen

2021:

Reserve Grand Award, Large Gold
Special Award- Best Japanese Related Article
Postal History Society Award.

“Foreign registration labels with letter codes A, B or C”  by Anker Nielsen

 

 

Other Large Gold

Meiji Period Mail Collection Seal Books”, by Kenneth Bryson

“The Christmas Postcards of the Japanese POW camps in WWIby Harold Krische

 

Vermeil

A Postcard in a Bottle“, by Kenneth G. Clark

“Visit of the Great White Fleet to Japan1908: Program and Postcards”,  by Anker Nielsen

 

Large Silver

Disneyana Japonica, by William Silvester

 

 Silver

“Japonica (1) & (2)”,  by Danny Meng

 

2020:

Large Gold
Special Award- Best Japanese Related Article

“The 1919 Nioshima Camp Exhibition and its Postcards”  by Harold Krische

 

 

Vermeil

Report: A Personal Discovery, by Kenneth Bryson

The First Showa Series of Definitive Stamps – Coil Stamps/Booklet Stamps”,  Kenneth G. Clark

“‘Double Circle’ type Medium-Size, Single-Circle cancellation with a 2-digit year, New reported sightings from Kōbe and Tōkyō”, by Anker Nielsen

 

Large Silver

Karl Lewis Yokohama Years”, by Todd Lewis

New Karl Lewis New Zealand Covers?”,  by Todd J. Lewis

Registered domestic mail with proof of delivery”, by  Anker Nielsen

 

Silver

1889 Cover with Interesting Markings by Zach Lawrence

Silver-Bronze

Another Cover with Interesting Markings, by Zach Lawrence