CWTS Literary Awards

CWTS Literary Awards are given to authors of articles that appeared in the Journal. The committee evaluates articles on whether the information is new, completeness, and how well written the article is.

Year	Place	Recipient	Article
1976	1st	Jack R. Detwiler	TBD
1977	1st	David Gladfelter	“Make That Snow Hill, West Virginia”
1978	1st	Elizabeth W. Steinle	“And Kenton Makes Three”
1978	2nd	Werner G. Mayer	"The Bohemians"
1978	3rd	Benj Fauver	“Patriotic Dies 178 and 179: Jackson, Mills and Pro-Union Propaganda”
1979	1st	Benj Fauver	"Horatio Speaks"
1979	2nd	Sterling A. Rachootin	“Private Scrip – Blood Brothers to Civil War Tokens”
1979	3rd	Bob O’Brien	"The Pacifist Dies Among Patriotic Civil War Tokens"
1980	1st	Sterling A. Rachootin	“Patriotic Civil War Covers”
1980	2nd	Benj Fauver	"Horatio Speaks"
1980	3rd	Gary R. Peterson	“M. B. Castle of Sandwich, Ill.”
1981	1st	Michael Saks	“The Charnleys of Providence”
1981	2nd	Sterling A. Rachootin	“Military Necessity”
1981	3rd	Donald Prybyzerski	“Hussey’s Special Message Post”
1982	1st	Gary L. Lyon	“Chicago’s Merchants and Their Storecards”
1982	2nd	Werner G. Mayer	“Jones Wood and Hotel”
1982	3rd	Sterling A. Rachootin	“A Symbol for America – The Bald Eagle”
1982	Honorable Mention	Gary Pipher	“Auction Notes”
1983	1st	Dale Cade	“Assembling a Patriotic Type Set”
1983	2nd	Jack R. Detwiler	“A $2.00 View of New York City”
1983	3rd	William Groom	“The Erie Store Card”
1984	1st	Dr. Larkin Wilson	“Copper-Nickel CWT Planchets: Were They Altered U. S. Cents?”
1984	2nd	Jack R. Detwiler	“Fuld 362 – Who Is JGW?”
1984	3rd	Cindy Grellman	“New Patriotic Die Discovered!”
1985	1st	Charlotte and David M. Gale	“Philadelphia Merchant Tokens: Directory Study of Civil War Storecards”
1985	2nd	Sterling A. Rachootin	“Slavery Depicted on Civil War Tokens”
1985	3rd	Michael A. Goodrich	“New Die for a Chicago Merchant”
1986	1st	Dr. Larkin Wilson	“Characteristics of Civil War Token Planchet Types”
1986	2nd	Larry Dziubek	“A Study of Some Stanton Reverse Dies”
1986	3rd	Thomas P. Gardner	“Captain Eber Ward and the Soo Locks”
1986	Special Award	Dale Cade	“Assembling a Patriotic Type Set”
1987	1st	Thomas P. Gardner	“Eber Ward’s Steamer PLANET: Further Reflections on OH 175Q”
1987	2nd	Ken Bauer	“Value Me As You Pleas”
1987	3rd	Robert Kraft	“What Are The Odds?”
1987	Honorable Mention	Dr. Larkin Wilson	“Patriotic 467-467 C R-10: New Listing of a Single Die Double Strike”
1987	Honorable Mention	Jack R. Detwiler	“The Starting Point – NYC Merchants”
1988	1st	Benj Fauver	“The Scope of Civil War Tokens, Parts I & II”
1988	2nd	Robert E. Daniel	“Chillicothe, Ohio: C. W. Merchants’Cards”
1988	3rd	Jack R. Detwiler	“Goshen, Indiana: Fuld IN 350”
1989	1st	Thomas P. Gardner	“The Grindstone Store Cards”
1989	2nd	Terry M. Schaub	“The Seneca Falls Skidmore Hotel Token”
1989	3rd	Dale Cade	“What is a Civil War Token?”
1989	3rd	Sterling A. Rachootin	“Civil War Tokens – Unofficial Patterns for Later U. S. Coinage?”
1990	1st	Everett K. Cooper	“The Tale That This Token Can Tell”
1990	2nd	Hugh Cooper	“A Certain Group of Tokens”
1990	3rd	Dennis P. Wierzba	"Collector Strikes and the Cataloging Errors They Caused"
1991	1st	Robert C. Kraft	“One Man’s Opinion (Mine) of the Rarity of Wisconsin Civil War Store Cards”
1991	2nd	Everett K. Cooper	“Sutler Tokens – A Historical Perspective”
1991	3rd	Will Mumford	“Real Tokens of the Civil War”
1992	1st	Jud Petrie	“The Maine Tokens of R. S. Torrey”
1992	2nd	Cindy Grellman	“A Confederate ‘Love Token’”
1992	3rd	Raymond Callan	“T.W. Hart, Supt. M.W.M. Plank Road Co. (WI 510Q)”
1992	Honorable Mention	Sterling A. Rachootin	“The Industrial Revolution Hits Home”
1992	Honorable Mention	Everett K. Cooper	“Sutler Tokens: 55th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 72nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment, 34th Ohio Volunteer Infantry”
1993	1st	Cindy Grellman	“Those Pesky 6, 7 & 8 Series Patriotic Dies!”
1993	2nd	Dale Cade	“Blank Reverse CWTs – Accidental, Deliberate, or Contrived?”
1993	3rd	Bill Jones	“John Matthews – The Father of the American Soft Drink Industry”
1994	1st	Sterling A. Rachootin	“Civil War Copperheads Skirt the Law”
1994	2nd	Everett K. Cooper	“Further Thoughts on the ‘Military Necessity’ Token”
1994	3rd	Bill Jones	“CWT Mini Sets, Part 5: The Sanitary Fair Tokens”
1995	1st	Bill Anderson	“All’s Weller That Ends Weller”
1995	2nd	Sterling A. Rachootin	“North Star”
1995	3rd	Everett K. Cooper	“Sutler Tokens – 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry”
1996	1st	Ray Callan	“Best & Co.’s Beer Hall on Market Street”
1996	2nd	George Fuld	“The Disposition of Major Civil War Token Collections”
1996	3rd	Bill Jones	“The Abraham Lincoln Mini-Set”
1997	1st	Everett K. Cooper	“Sutler Tokens at Gettysburg”
1997	2nd	Dale Cade	“Die Sinker Errors on CWTs”
1997	3rd	Sterling A. Rachootin	“Pure Copper Preferable to Paper”
1998	1st	Bill Jones	“Comer’s Commercial College: MA 115A-1e”
1998	2nd	Tom Fredette	“Sanitary Fair Storecards and the U. S. Sanitary Commission”
1998	3rd	Everett K. Cooper	“The Sutler’s Tokens Not Always Needed”
1999	1st	John K. Evans	“Oysters, Anyone?”
1999	2nd	Wayne K. Homren	“Medicine, Gold Dust, and Soda Pop: The Adventures of J. C. Buffum, Pittsburgh Entrepreneur”
1999	3rd	Wayne Stafford	“H. D. Higgins: Producer of Indiana Primitive Civil War Tokens and Barometers”
1999	Honorable Mention	Everett K. Cooper	“Sutler Tokens . . . Redeemable in Goods”
1999	Honorable Mention	W. David Perkins	“The ‘Perkins’ Store Cards of Fond du Lac – Are the Issuers Related?”
2000	1st	John K. Evans	“The Storecards of 1860-1862: Why Were They Issued?”
2001	1st	Bart D. Woloson	“Some Unconventional Thoughts on the Manufacture, Distribution, and Redemption of Store Cards”
2002	1st	W. David Perkins	“Detroit Civil War Storecard Notes: Charles Busch (Fuld MI 225M); C. C. Tyler & Co. (Fuld MI 225CH) and R. G. Tyler (Fuld MI 225CI)”
2002	2nd	Paul Cunningham	“Clichés”
2002	3rd	Sterling A. Rachootin	“To Treasure the Pleasure . . . of Your Treasure”
2002	Honorable Mention	Sterling A. Rachootin	“Genealogy 101 of Civil War Tokens”
2002	Honorable Mention	Sterling A. Rachootin	“Looking Backward – 1913”
2003	1st	Donald Erlenkotter	“Who Was the Wilson of ‘Wilson’s Medal’?”
2003	2nd	Wayne Stafford	“H. D. Higgins and His Indiana Frontier Mint”
2003	3rd	Sterling A. Rachootin	“Rally Round the Flag, Boys”
2003	Honorable Mention	Patrick W. Barnard	“The Elusive Merchant: M. W. Walsh of Niagara Falls, NY”
2004	1st	Donald Erlenkotter	“The ‘Hero of Pea Ridge’: A Sigel Family Saga”
2004	2nd	W. David Perkins	“Captain Eber Brock Ward”
2004	3rd	W. David Perkins	“An ‘Original Collection,’ Still Intact After 130 Years!”
2004	Honorable Mention	W. David Perkins	“Martin Brothers Cheap Shoes, Detroit”
2005	1st	Sterling A. Rachootin	“Lecturing the Professionals”
2005	2nd	Donald Erlenkotter	“The Outing of JGW: A Civil War Token Manufacturer Revealed”
2005	3rd	W. David Perkins	“Detroit Civil War Store Card Notes”
2005	Honorable Mention	Sterling A. Rachootin	“Humor in Civil War Tokens”
2006	1st	Dana Zaiser	“W. G. Brain – Druggist – Springfield, Ohio”
2006	2nd	John Ostendorf	“Elizabeth Heinzmann: Female CWT Store Card Issuer”
2006	3rd	Dana Zaiser	“Ludlow and Bushnell – Druggists”
2006	Honorable Mention	W. David Perkins	“Alexander Copland’s Steam Bakery”
2007	1st	Bill Jones	“Why Didn’t U. S. Grant Appear on any Civil War Tokens?”
2007	2nd	Bill Groom	“Hunting Buffalo CWTs”
2007	3rd	R. J. Walker	“‘Colored’ Sutler Tokens”
2008	1st	Jane Sears	“Proof at Last! Ahern & Broadbent Civil War Token”
2008	2nd	Sterling A. Rachootin	“California: Gold Rush, Statehood, Political Shenanigans, Supplementing U.S. Coinage, and Winning the Civil War”
2008	3rd	William Luitje	“MI 060A and V.P. Collier”
2008	Honorable Mention	Scott Blickensderfer	“Bartholomew & McClelland, Valparaiso, Indiana”
2009	1st	Larry Dziubek	“New Chicago Store Card Surfaces”
2009	2nd	James H. Higby	“Edward Weibezahn and His Rare Store Cards”
2009	3rd	William Luitje	“W. W. Whitlark and the Grover & Baker Company”
2009	Honorable Mention	Patrick Flannery	“Dr. James W. Phelps, Mason, Michigan”
2010	1st	Donald Erlenkotter	“Civil War Token Prosecutions and Convictions”
2010	2nd	William Luitje	“Why Did Michigan Merchants Switch Die Sinkers?"
2010	3rd	Roger A. Lalich	“North Prairie, WI CWT Issuers: Three Merchants and Three Die Errors”
2010	Honorable Mention	Donald Erlenkotter	“Gustavus Lindenmueller: The Myth, The Man, The Mystery”
2011	1st	Donald Erlenkotter	"How Many Civil War Tokens Were Produced?"
2011	2nd	William Luitje	"The Value of Rarity Numbers"
2011	3rd	Bart Woloson	"David B. Herrinton and His Double Thread $15 Sewing Machine."
2012	1st	John Ostendorf	“R. S. McKeen & Co. of Galveston, Texas – Not Indiana!”
2012	2nd	Q. David Bowers	“Rhode Island Civil War Store Cards” & “F. Theodore Pohle of Rhode Island: From Providence to Cranston (RI 220A)”
2012	3rd	John Ostendorf	“Waldo & Brandon’s Emporium, Jefferson, Wisconsin (WI 310F)”
2013	1st	Rick Irons	"A. Krebs and Chas. Stevens: Civil War Merchants or Sutlers?"
2013	2nd	Donald Erlenkotter, Q. David Bowers, Rick Remling	"Robert Downing (OH-165AK): Two Identities for a Bookseller and Numismatist of Cincinnati".
2013	3rd	Donald Erlenkotter	"Cincinnati's Dr. Bennett and his Medicines (OH-165N)"
2014	1st	John Ostendorf	"African-American Issuers of Civil War Store Cards"
2014	2nd	Q. David Bowers	"Charles McCarthy and the Washington House, Urbana, Ohio"
2014	3rd	Scott Hopkins	"Plessner & Son: Druggists of Toledo, Ohio"
2014	Honorable Mention	Donald Erlenkotter	"1864: Dunn & Co.'s Oyster House Tokens"
2015	1st	Donald Erlenkotter	"Slave Owner Issued Civil War Tokens"
2015	2nd	Roger Lalich	"Tokens by Marr and Kleinsteuber"
2015	2nd	Scott Hopkins	"H.A. Rattermanand the Continuous Search for the First Store Card Issuer"
2016	1st	Mark Borckardt	"Findlay, Ohio Civil War Token Issuers"
2016	2nd	Tom Gardner	"Locating that Silver Mine"
2016	3rd	Matthew Robinson	"The Newly Listed F-546/547 Dies"
2016	Honorable Mention	John Mann	"The Civil War Tokens of Eaton Rapids, Michigan"
2016	Honorable Mention	Cole Hendrickson	"My First Sutler Token"
2017	1st	David Schenkman	"Henry Clay Ezekial"
2017	2nd	Bill Groom	"The Capron Counterstamps"
2017	3rd	Mark Borckardt	"Troy, Ohio Civil War Token Merchants"
2018	1st	David Schenkman	"Revisiting the Koehler Civil War? Tokens"
2018	2nd	Cole Hendrickson	"Frontier Forts: Sutlers and Their Tokens"
2018	3rd	David Schenkman	"The W.L. Waring Token of Richmond, Virginia"
2019	1st	David Schenkman	"Those Enigmatic 1250 dies and the Mysterious Wapakoneta Sanitary Fair"
2019	2nd	Matthew Robinson	“A Tale of Two Medals-Why Timing is Everything and Size Matters"
2019	3rd	Cole Hendrickson	“Wired-The Life of I.L. Ellwood"
2020	1st	David Schenkman	"Numismatica of the Civil War Era- Sanitary Fairs and Related Organizations"
2020	2nd	Cole Hendrickson	“John Gault and his New Metallic Currency”
2020	3rd	Roger Lalich & Joe Paonessa	“Civil War Token Manufacturing”
2021	1st	David Schenkman	"Civil War Round Cardboard Scrip"
2021	2nd	Cole Hendrickson	“The Civil War Store Cards of Richmond, Indiana"
2021	3rd	David Schenkman	“The Hard Rubber Tokens of David F. Waller and Frederick M. Colburn”
2022	1st	David Schenkman	"Badges, Medals, and Ribbons of the Grand Army of the Republic"
2022	2nd	John Ostendorf	“The Only Aluminum Civil War Token”
2022	3rd	Matthew Robinson	“Civil War Medals, Providing Conent and Inspiration”
2023	1st	David Schenkman	"'Corporal' James Tanner and the 1866 Brooklyn Veterans Medal"
2023	2nd	Cole Hendrickson	"Aaron W. Wallace (CT 35B)"
2023	3rd	David Schenkman	"The Evolution of a Small Confectionery"
2023	4th	Tim Webb	"Discoveries Part 3: An Unlisted Oliver Boutwell Reverse Brockage Civil War Store Card"
2024	1st	David Schenkman	“The Playing Card Empire of Samuel Hart”
2024	2nd	D. Carver Wells	“The ‘Massachusetts for Justice’ Medal (1856)”
2024	3rd	David Schenkman	“Thoughts on the Enigmatic S.B. Tempest Token”