Crawford Medal
The Crawford Medal is a vermeil medal awarded by the Royal Philatelic Society London for the most valuable and original contribution to the study and knowledge of philately published in book form during the relevant period.
The medal is named after James Lindsay, 26th Earl of Crawford, who by the time of his death in 1913 had amassed the greatest philatelic library of his time.
Other society medals
The society also awards these silver medals:- The Tilleard Medal for the best large display of any aspect of philately given by one, or not more than two, Fellows or Members during the relevant period.
- The Lee Medal for the best paper dealing with any aspect of philately given by one Fellow or Member during the relevant period.
- The Tapling Medal for the best paper written by a Fellow or Member and published in The London Philatelist during the relevant period.
List of winners of the Crawford Medal
| Year | Author | Title |
| 1920 | Hugo Griebert | The Stamps of Spain 1850-1854 |
| 1921 | Sir Edward Denny Bacon KCVO | The Line Engraved Postage Stamps of Great Britain |
| 1922 | Charles Nissen and Bertram McGowan | The Plating of the Penny Black Postage Stamp of Great Britain, 1840 |
| 1923 | Charles Lathrop Pack | Victoria: The half-Length Portraits and the Twopence Queen Enthroned |
| 1924 | Lieut. Colonel G.S.F. Napier | The Stamps of the First Issue of Brazil |
| 1925 | Dr. Justus Anderssen and Henrik Dethloff | Norges Frimerker 1855-1924 |
| 1927 | F. J. Peplow | The Postage Stamps of Buenos Aires |
| 1928 | C. F. Dendy Marshall | The British Post Office from its Beginning to the End of 1925 |
| 1929 | A.M. Tracey Woodward | The Postage Stamps of Japan and Dependencies |
| 1930 | Dr. Carroll Chase | The 3¢ Stamp of the United States 1851-57 Issue |
| 1931 | Gilbert J. Allis | Cape of Good Hope: Its Postal History and Postage Stamps |
| 1932 | E. A. Smythies and Captain D. R. Martin | The Four Annas Lithographed Stamps of India, 1854-55 |
| 1933 | E.J. Lee | The Postage Stamps of Uruguay |
| 1934 | Dr. Emilio Diena I | Francbolli del Regno di Napoli |
| 1935 | Carl Schmidt | Die Postwertzeichen der Russischen Landschaftsaemter |
| 1936 | Dr. Herbert Munk | Kohl Briefmarken-Handbuch |
| 1937 | Stanley Bryan Ashbrook | The United States Ten Cent Stamp of 1851-57 |
| 1938 | Max G. Johl | United States Stamps of the 20th Century, Vol. IV |
| 1939 | Dr H. Osborne | Great Britain, Twopence Plate Nine. A Study of the Plate and its Repairs |
| 1940 | J.H. Curle and A.E. Basden | Transvaal Postage Stamps |
| 1944 | A. A. Jurgens | The Handstruck Letter Stamps of the Cape of Good Hope from 1792 to 1853 and the Postmarks from 1853 to 1910 |
| 1945 | Prescott Holden Thorp | The Stamped Envelopes and Wrappers of the United States and Possessions |
| 1947 | Winthrop Smillie Boggs | The Postage Stamps and Postal history of Canada |
| 1948 | A. Tort Nicolau | Guia del Coleccionista de Sellos de Correos de España 1855-69 |
| 1949 | Dr. F.E. Wood | Straits Settlements Postage Stamps |
| 1950 | L.E. Dawson | The One Anna and Two Annas Postage Stamps of India 1854-55 |
| 1951 | D. Alan Stevenson | The Triangular Stamps of Cape of Good Hope |
| 1952 | J. Schmidt-Andersen | The Postage Stamps of Denmark 1851-1951 |
| 1953 | Sir John Wilson Bart CVO | The Royal Philatelic Collection |
| 1954 | J. R. W. Purves | The Half Lengths of Victoria |
| 1956 | The Royal Philatelic Society of New Zealand | The Postage Stamps of New Zealand Vol III |
| 1958 | John Easton | The De La Rue History of British and Foreign Postage Stamps 1855-1901 |
| 1959 | Dr. W.R. Forrester-Wood | The Stamps and Postal History of Sarawak |
| 1960 | S.D. Tchilinghirian and W.S.E. Stephen | Stamps of the Russian Empire Used Abroad |
| 1961 | Dr. Mohamed Dadkhah | The Lion Stamps of Persia |
| 1962 | Nicholas Argenti | The Postage Stamps of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia |
| 1963 | Dr. W.R.D. Wiggins | The Postage Stamps of Great Britain Part II |
| 1964 | Dr. Joseph Schatzkés | The Cancellations of Mexico 1856-74 |
| 1965 | Joaquín Galvez Naranjo | Los Primeros Sellos de Chile 1853 a 1867 |
| 1966 | Dr. S. Ichida | The Cherry Blossom Issues of Japan 1872-1876 |
| 1967 | The Federation of Hungarian Philatelic Societies | A Magyar Belyagek Monografiaja: Vols I, II and V |
| 1968 | No award. | - |
| 1969 | International Society of Guatemala Collectors | Guatemala Volume I Postal History and Stamps to Mid 1902 |
| 1970 | No award. | - |
| 1971 | No award. | - |
| 1972 | George E. Hargest | History of Letter Post Communication between the United States and Europe, 1845-1875 |
| 1973 | Raymond Salles | Encyclopaedie de la Poste Maritime Française Historique et Catalogue |
| 1974 | Robson Lowe | Encyclopaedia of British Empire Postage Stamps |
| 1975 | G.C. van Balen Blanken and Bert Buurman | The Netherlands - Plating of the 1852 5 cent and 10 cent values |
| 1976 | Archibald G.M. Batten | The Orange Free State - its Postal Offices and their Markings 1868-1910 |
| 1977 | No award. | - |
| 1978 | A. Ronald Butler | The Departmental Stamps of South Australia |
| 1979 | Örjan Lüning | Luftpostens historia i Norden - The history of airmail in Scandinavia |
| 1980 | Harold W. Fisher | The Plating of the Penny |
| 1981 | Marcus Samuel and Dr. Alan K. Huggins | Specimen Stamps and Stationery of Great Britain |
| 1982 | Sigurd Ringström and Henry E. Tester | The Private Ship Letter Stamps of the World |
| 1983 | Dr. Anton Jerger | Handbooks on Austrian Lombardy-Venetia |
| 1984 | Armando Mário O. Vieira | Classicos de Relevo de Portugal |
| 1985 | Paolo Vollmeier | Storia Postale del Regno di Sardegna dalle Origini all'Introduzione del Francobollo |
| 1986 | Prof. Carlrichard Brühl | Geschichte der Philatelie: Volumes I and II |
| 1987 | No award. | - |
| 1988 | Gary S. Ryan | The Cancellations of Hungarian Post Offices on the First Issue of Hungary 1867-1871 |
| 1989 | Adolph Koeppel and Raymond D. Manners | The Court Fee and Revenue Stamps of the Princely States of India |
| 1990 | Dr. Nino Aquila | I Francobolli Degli Ultimi Re |
| 1991 | Peter M. Ibbotson | The Postal History and Stamps of Mauritius |
| 1992 | J. Michael and P. Jane Moubray | British Letter Mail to Overseas Destinations 1840-1875 |
| 1993 | Jack F. Ince and S. John Sacher | The Postal Services of the British Nigeria Region |
| 1994 | James van der Linden | Catalogue des Marques de Passage |
| 1995 | H.E. Walker and J.H. Coles | Postal Cancellations of the Ottoman Empire: Parts 1 to 4 |
| 1996 | Paolo Vollmeier and Vittorio Mancini | Storia Postale del Regno di Napoli dalle Origini all'Introdzione del Francobollo |
| 1997 | No award. | - |
| 1998 | Peter E. Fernbank | King George V Key Plates of the Imperium Postage and Revenue Design |
| 1999 | Hugh V. Feldman | Letter Receivers of London 1652-1857: A History of their Offices and Handstamps within the General, Penny and Twopenny Posts |
| 2000 | Professor Peter A. S. Smith | Egypt - Stamps and Postal History - A Philatelic Treatise |
| 2001 | G.C. Akerman and Gavin H. Fryer | The Reform of the Post Office in the Victorian Era and Its Impact on Economic and Social Activity |
| 2002 | Dr. Ulrich Ferchenbauer | Österreich 1850-1918 |
| 2003 | F. Heimbuchler | Rumanien/Romania: Furstentum Walachei 1820-1862, Vereinige Füstentümer 1862-1872 |
| 2004 | Claude J.P. Delbeke | Nederlandse Scheepspost, II, Nederland en det Westen 1600-1900 |
| 2005 | Robert P. Odenweller | The Stamps and Postal History of Nineteenth Century Samoa |
| 2006 | Bryan Kearsley | Discovering Seahorses – King George V High Values |
| 2007 | No award. | - |
| 2008 | David A. Stotter | The British Post Office Service in Morocco 1907-57 |
| 2009 | Eric Yendall | King George VI Large Key Type Revenue and Postage High Value Stamps 1937-1953 |
| 2010 | Michèle Chauvet | Introduction à l'Histoire Postale |
| 2011 | Robert P. Odenweller | The Postage Stamps of New Zealand 1855-1873: The Chalon Head Issues |
| 2012 | David Tett | A Postal History of the Prisoners of War and Civilian Internees in East Asia During the Second World War: Volumes 1 to 5 |
| 2013 | Kees Adema | Netherlands Mail in Times of Turmoil: Volumes 1, 2 and 3 |
| 2014 | Peter van der Molen | Swaziland Philately to 1968 |
| 2015 | Kenneth Scudder | Queensland Postage Stamps 1879-1912 |
| 2016 | Steven C. Walske and Richard Frajola | Mails of the Westward Expansion, 1803–1861 |
| 2017 | James Bendon | U.P.U. Specimen Stamps 1878-1961 |
| 2018 | Hugh V. Feldman | United States Railroad Mail Routes and Contracts 1832-1875 |
| 2019 | Alan Druce | Perkins Bacon Great Britain Line-engraved Postage Stamp Printing 1840-1846 |
| 2020 | James P. Gough | The Postal History of the Universal Postal Union: The Postal Card 1869-1974 |
| 2021 | James Grimwood-Taylor | International Postal Reforms |
| 2022 | Guillermo F. Gallegos and Joseph D. Hahn | The 19th Century Issues of El Salvador, 1867-1900 |
| 2023 | Lars Engelbrecht | Postal Stationery Of Denmark: The Bi-Coloured Issue 1871-1905 |
| 2024 | Luis & Eduardo Barreiros | Portuguese India: Postal History and the First Issues from the ‘natives’ to 1900 |
| 2025 | Tomas Bjäringer & Mårten Sundberg | Tété Béche: Rarities from the Oval-Issue of Finland |