Dr. Charles J. DiComo, President of the Philatelic Society of Lancaster County and the Empire State Postal History Society presents “Banking in the Village of Pawling, New York and Surrounding Townships, as told through Postal History, Bank Checks, Currency, Revenue Stamps, and Postal Cards: 1849–1929.”
For a decade Charles lived in Pawling, Dutchess County, New York, 65 miles north of NYC. Here he began researching the history of the village, town, hamlets and neighborhoods. He collected its postal history, real photo postcards, postal cards, postal stationary, Victorian trade cards, railroad tickets, newspapers, hotel paraphernalia, etc.
A sub-collection grew from this to include Bank Checks, Promissory Notes, Bank Tags, Fractional & Federal Currency and other Ephemera. In 2019, he published an article in “Paper Money” on a portion of this story, “The Life of Hiram Vail and the Obsolete Notes produced for his Banking & Collection Office in Amenia, New York.” ‘Paper Money,,’ May-June, 2019, Vol. LVIII, No. 3, Whole No. 321, pp. 190-194.
Enjoy this historical journey of Pawling, New York as he shares many artifacts from his extensive postal history and currency collection.