The Kat Ran Ephemera Club. After many years of development and market analysis, we founded the Kat Ran Ephemera Club in June of 2003. This carefully designed program provides each Member with a minimum of three ephemeral pieces each year. These pieces focus on a variety of subjects, including (but not limited to) typography, type specimens, drawing, decorated paper, porcupines, philatelics, sea shells, sea shores, and bookplates. All are carefully considered and designed, printed on our presses, folded and fabricated (when necessary), and shipped along at somewhat irregular and inconsistent intervals. Membership is loose, but strictly limited to no more than seventy-five members, and inclusion is available on a first come, first serve basis. The Membership Fee is just $60, and so certain are we that you will be pleased with your first piece, that if you are not, upon receipt of the returned piece, we will quickly refund your Membership Fee plus four Massachusetts quarters to use however you see fit.
As the development of each piece is carried out under extreme secrecy, we are unable to divulge what is in preparation for the the Club. However, a checklist of Year I and Year II (thus far) of the Ephemera Club follows below.
YEAR I
1. Portraits of Wilhelmina & George
2. A Modest Specimen of Koch Antiqua
3. A History of Printing in Andover, Massachusetts
YEAR 2
4. A Wearable Specimen of Wilhelm Klingspor-Schrift
5. In Praise of Fine Printing
Parties interested in becoming a Member of the Kat Ran Ephemera Club should call, write, fax, e-mail, or visit the Press to alert the Staff of their intentions—however, the activities of the Club are presently on hold until we figure out what we're doing.