Buffalo Cinderellas - The Gentleman, The Huckster and the Pan American Exposition

Rick Barrett Publishing, Houston, Texas, 2018. Inscription from author on front endpaper. Good secondhand condition.

The electrifying 1901 Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York offered a spirited message of hope and possibility. Over eight million people flocked to the spectacular Pan Am, and there were substantial opportunities for businessmen to profit. Two very different people did so by creating souvenir cinderella stamps for the event. One was a reputable man who sold over four million Expo stamps and became a respected philatelic expert; the other was a traveling charlatan who later drifted into the darkness of forgery and swindling. Their fascinating stories and adventures are inside this book. The items they created, that are an ever-increasing attraction to stamp collectors and lovers of intrigue alike, are beautifully pictured and precisely detailed inside as well! Buffalo Cinderellas is a high-quality hardcover, 182 pages in length, printed on a fine paper stock, with over 400 pictures, including 338 full-color images. Also included is an extremely detailed, fully illustrated 24 page Stamp Appendix which will help collectors in ways that have been previously unavailable with regard to the Exposition souvenir stamps.