Robert Thompson won the Grand Award at the 2026 Greater Houston Stamp Show for 25¢ Honeybee – From Design to Postal Usage. The exhibit also received the Brad Horton Award, the American Philatelic Society Award and a multi-frame gold medal. The show took place at the Humble Civic Center in Humble, Texas, from 18 to 20 September.

The Houston Philatelic Society’s 3 October report names Bryant Korn as Reserve Grand Award winner for The Kookaburra Stamps of Australia 1914–1960, also awarded multi-frame gold. Dr. Tommy Sim took the Single-Frame Grand Award and Best Single-Frame Gray Exhibit award for The Philippine 1947 Four-Centavo Jose Rizal Monument Definitive: From Design to Postal Usage, which earned single-frame gold.

Ron Strawser received the Texas Philatelic Association President’s Award for Mozambique Company Postal Stationery. Jay Stotts won the National Stamp Dealers Association Outstanding Presentation Award for Uses of the 40 c. Gray Swiss Small Landscape Issue of 1936–48. Trevor Bills’s The Gray Area: Mail That Shouldn’t Have Made It received the Most Imaginative Single-Frame Gray Exhibit award and was voted the most popular single-frame exhibit. Tomas Griebling’s RINGS OF GLORY – Inspiring Olympic Design won the most popular multi-frame award.

The final palmares records additional honours. Sim received the United States Stamp Society President’s Award for his exhibit of the 1925 Lambert Sales Company security stamps in the Philippines. The American Topical Association’s first, second and third awards went respectively to Stotts’s African Antelopes, Griebling’s RINGS OF GLORY and Sumangala Polu’s The Timeless Allure of Black. Elizabeth Hisey received the association’s one-frame award for Greyhound Buses From Inception to the End of their Golden Age.

Valerie Harelson received both the Women Exhibitors Sterling Achievement Award and the American Association of Philatelic Exhibitors Novice Award for her UNICEF exhibit illustrating the involvement of Danny Kaye and Audrey Hepburn. The jury comprised chief judge Darrell Ertzberger, Patrick Walters and Yavuz Corapcioglu.