Club awards
The Robert P. Odenweller Award for Best Article
The Robert P. Odenweller Award is an annual award given for the best article published in a given year in the Collectors Club Philatelist. The winner of the award is determined by the Editor of the CCP and a committee of Board members. The award for the previous year is announced at the January Annual Meeting, and it is presented at the Awards Dinner the following May.
Past recipients
| Year | Name of Winner | Name of Article | CCP Vol & No. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Richard Coffey | Essential Elements | Series |
| 2024 | David Wilcox | The Independent Mails Cover Survey | Vol 103 No 4 |
| 2023 | Scott R. Trepel | The Parkhurst Co. Coils Conundrum: Private or Government Perforations | Vol 102 No 3 |
| 2022 | Steven Roth | The Carriage of Mail by Eastern Stage Lines Before 1860 | Vol 101 No 3 & 4 |
| 2021 | David T. Zemer | The Panama 1¢ Balboa Invert from the American Banknote Company | Vol 100, No 1 |
| 2020 | Lin Yangchen | Malaya’s Timeless Design | 12 installments. Issue #6, 2018-Issue #6, 2020 |
| 2019 | Dr. James P. Mazepa | Baja California Del Sur: 1915 Local Provisional Overprints and Coach House Issue | Vol 98, No 6 |
| 2018 | Gerald J. Elliott | Fanning Island, Pacific Ocean: A Postal History Treatise 1889-1949 | Vol 97, No 1 |
| 2017 | Robert P. Odenweller | New Zealand: The Short Life of the 1935 1-1/2d Definitive Stamp | Vol 96, No 3 |
| 2016 | Steven Roth | Henry K. Jarrett: Forger of United States Postmaster Provisional Stamps and Covers | Vol 95, No 1, 2 |
| 2015 | Nicola Cipriani & Claudio E. Manzati | The Italian Levant 5 Piastres Air Mail Stamp | Vol 94, No 4 |
| 2014 | Luis Brito Frazao | J.N. Marsden and the Small “Guine” Overprint on Cape Verde Stamps | Vol 93, No 2, 3 |
| 2013 | Vernon Morris | The Philadelphia Dispatch Post | Vol 92, No 5 |
| 2012 | Robert Johnson | China: Airmails out of China to Foerigh Destinations, 1939 to 1942 | Vol 91, No 2 |
| 2011 | Keith P. Klugman, MD | Manuscript Topwn Cancels on Embossed Postage Stamps of Natal | Vol 90, No 5 |
| 2010 | James P. Gough | The Changing formulas of the GPU/UPU for Postage Due | |
| 2009 | Keith P. Klugman, MD | Postal Use of the 1857 Natal Embossed Shilling Stamp | Vol 88, No.1 |
| 2008 | Abed Habib Najjar | ||
| 2007 | Kees Adema | ||
| 2006 | Dale Forster & Fred J. Gregory | ||
| 2005 | Steven C. Walske | ||
| 2004 | Dr. Gerald L. Boarino | ||
| 2003 | Colin Breddy | ||
| 2002 | James Cross | ||
| 2001 | Edward J.J. Grabowski & Robert G. Stone | ||
| 2000 | George B. Arfken, Horace W. Harrison & Harry W. Lussey | ||
| 1999 | Stanley J. Luft | ||
| 1998 | James G. Baird | ||
| 1997 | Dr. Otto Z. Sellinger | ||
| 1996 | |||
| 1995 | Jerold M. Massler | ||
| 1994 | Robert Stendel | ||
| 1993 | Peter A.S. Smith | ||
| 1992 | Dr James B. Helme & Frederico A. Brid | ||
| 1991 | James G. Baird | ||
| 1990 | John O. Griffiths | ||
| 1989 | Robert L. Markovits | ||
| 1988 | Paul & Barbara Kayfetz | ||
| 1987 | |||
| 1986 | |||
| 1985 | |||
| 1984 | |||
| 1983 | Carl A. Kilgas | ||
| 1982 | Dr. Fred L. Reed & Paul van Reyen | ||
| 1981 | |||
| 1980 | Tomas Bjaringer & Lauson H. Stone | ||
| 1979 | Abbot Lutz | ||
| 1978 | Alex Rendon | ||
| 1977 | Frank Vignola | ||
| 1976 | Robert P. Odenweller | ||
| 1975 | David Opperman | ||
| 1974 | Ernest A. Kehr | ||
| 1973 | J.R.W. Purves | ||
| 1972 | Calvet M. Hahn | ||
| 1971 | Denwood N. Kelly | ||
| 1970 | Mrs. Muriel Bemis Hayes & Col. James T. DeVoss | ||
| 1969 | Alvaro Bonilla-Lara | ||
| 1968 | Albert Quast & Dr. Robert Willer | ||
| 1967 | Solomon Altman | ||
| 1966 | |||
| 1965 | Dr. L.N. Cristea | ||
| 1964 | Robert Hoffmann | ||
| 1963 | Mortimer L. Neinken | ||
| 1962 | Frank E. Patterson III | ||
| 1961 | Winthrop S. Boggs | ||
| 1960 | Edwin Mueller | ||
| 1959 | Robert G. Stone & Herbert P. Woodward | ||
| 1958 | Harrison D.S. Haverbeck | ||
| 1957 | Louis Stich | ||
| 1956 | J.R.W. Purves | ||
| 1955 | L.E. Dawson | ||
| 1954 | Frank M. Cowen & J. Devasya | ||
| 1953 | Charles Neidorf | ||
| 1952 | Dr. Robert C.H. Lee | ||
| 1951 | F.G. Larsen | ||
| 1950 | LtGen C.W. Wickersham | ||
| 1949 | Lyons F. Livingston | ||
| 1948 | R.J. Mechin & Alex A. Cohen |