The Royal Philatelic Society London received more than thirty nominations for the Crawford Medal for books published during the years 2023 and 2024. The Society is pleased to announce the short list of six from which the Crawford Medal Committee will select the 2025 winner. The winner will be announced at the end of the Crawford Festival on 25 June 2025.
The shortlisted books are:
Tété Béche: rarities from the Oval-Issue of Finland by Tomas Bjäringer & Mårten Sundberg.
Italia e Iberia: la posta fra gli stati delle due penisole 1814 – 1876= Italy and Iberia: the mail between the states of the two peninsulas by Lorenzo Carra.
The Postal Stationery of Nigeria by Peter Hørlyck.
New York City Foreign Mail 1845 – 1878 (2 Volumes) by N.M Kirke.
Dominica: philately to 1967 by Simon Richards.
The Rhodesias and Nyasaland from Colonial rule to majority rule: the evolution of the mails by Brian Trotter, Pat Flanagan & Keith Harrop.
The Crawford Medal is a silver-gilt medal awarded for the most valuable and original contribution to the study and knowledge of philately published in book form during the relevant period. This Medal is open to world-wide competition and has been awarded by the Society on over 90 occasions since the first award in 1920.
The medal will be awarded at the end of the Crawford Festival which will take place on 24 and 25 June 2025 at 15 Abchurch Lane, London EC4N 7BW. This years event is kindly sponsored by David Feldman International Auctioneers and the theme will be Archives in Philatelic Research
Tickets are available here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crawford-festival-2025-tickets-1289442851279
For further information contact us at Events@rpsl.org.uk or contact Nicola Davies 020 7486 1044 – Select Option 2
A full schedule will appear in a special supplement with May’s issue of The London Philatelist.
Although nominations have closed for this year, if you have written, published or read a book that could be a contender for next year’s medal (for books published in 2024 or 2025) then you can nominate it by emailing daviesn@rpsl.org.uk and ensuring that a non-returnable copy of the book is sent to 15 Abchurch Lane, London EC4N 7BW by 31 January 2026.