Monthly Archive: February 2016

Lehman Brothers – Maryland 1987

$395.00 – Rare and Scarce Stocks / Bonds – Beautiful engraved SCARCE uncancelled stock certificate from the Lehman Corporation issued in 1987. This historic document was printed by American Bank Note Company and has an ornate border around it with…
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Scripophily Press Releases

Scripophily Press Releases Scripophily.com Will Attend 15th Annual International Stock and Bond Show on January 29 – 30, 2016 in Herndon, Virginia January 14, 2016OldCompany.com will be offering Free Old Stock Certificate Research Services ($39.95 Value) to anyone who brings…
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Old Company Stock Research

For $39.95 per company, our Old Company Research Service will provide you with a brief status profile of companies whose original identities have been lost due to a change in name, merger, acquisition, dissolution, reorganization, bankruptcy or charter cancellation. We…
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What is Scripophily?

What is Scripophily? by Bob.com Kerstein     SCRIPOPHILY (scrip-af-il-ly), the collecting of canceled old stocks and bonds, gained recognition as a hobby around the mid-1970s.  The word resulted combining words from English and Greek. The word “scrip”  represents an…
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Roberts Petroleum Torpedo Company signed by Edward A. L. Roberts – RARE (Only 3 known signed by Roberts) Roberts’ “Exploding Torpedo” was the birth of modern-day shale fracking – Issued April 12, 1865 (Day of Robert E. Lee’s Surrender at Appomattox Court House)

$995.00 – Rare and Scarce Stocks / Bonds – Certificate from the Roberts Petroleum Torpedo Company issued in 1865. This historic document has an ornate border around it with vignettes of an oil filed and the torpedo exploding. This item…
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