North Toronto Stamp Club presents special guest and author Rick Barrett presents stories of the electrifying 1901 Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Over eight million people flocked to the spectacular Pan Am Expo and there were substantial opportunities for businessmen to profit.
Two very different people did so by creating Cinderella (souvenir) 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.