written for the Feb-April 2015 issue of Hinges and Tongs http://www.rpastamps.org/hingesandtongs/ht-2015-02.pdf
Rochester Philatelic Association member Florence Wright opened the first RPA meeting of 2015 by asking the 28 in attendance if they knew what these five items had in common.
Of course, we knew the title of her talk so it was a bit of a rhetorical inquiry, but we all learned a lot in the next 40 minutes as Florence explained the 108 year history of Christmas Seals.