7/17/2021 In 2016, the American Philatelic Society Board of Directors created the Dealer of the Year award. In February 2020, the APS Board voted unanimously that the award should be renamed to reflect the vital lifetime contributions that dealers offer the hobby, and it was reborn as the John Walter Scott Dealer Award
. John Walter Scott is known as “The Father of American Philately.” The catalog he first issued in 1868 remains the hobby standard to this day. He was a founding member of the Collectors Club of New York in 1896 and the American Stamp Dealers Association in 1914. He held numerous positions with the APS, and was elected its president in 1917.