Our February speaker was Chip Gliedman, who presented on "Temperance - How a Social Movement used the Mails (1840-1869)".  His exhibit included a wide range of scarce to rare illustrated postal history focused on the 19th century Temperance movement.  Aside from the beauty of many of these covers, Chip noted the unusual rates and postal markings associated with these items. The talk started with an 1830 Temperance newspaper from Andover, MA that showed the very rare (one of two known) 1 ½ cen...

Our annual members’ one-frame show-and-tell, held on January 12, involved only six participants but the material on display was worthy of 60. Dan Ryterband showed a virtually complete set of Atlanta color proofs, presented on black stock pages with the five colors carefully aligned—breathtakingly beautiful. Larry Lyons put up a highly-polished one-frame exhibit of Honours City Express Post, the carrier operation set up in Charleston (1849-60) in hopes of fostering the prepayment of carrier...