Beautiful stocks and bonds

Yes, a sample of all six sets. They all came with envelopes too. The pamphlet is to wide to scan or I would scan it.

 

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Thank you for the reply @lettow. I will indeed be purchasing some of the albums. And here is a add to the thread.

 

I'm a big fan of old railroad and mining stocks; especially old obscure railroads.

 

Here are the type of albums I use.

 

9x12

 

11x14

 

I also use ITOYA Art Profilo albums for sheet storage.

 

Excellent way to store sheets Steve. I picked up a couple of 9x12 albums. I like the 11x14 as well and will likely grab a couple of those over the next month or two. I appreciate the feedback.

 

Lettow, if you'd ever like to share a better image of that old US Treasury bond, I would love to see it!

 

It is not a US Treasury bond. It was issued by the State of Wisconsin to fund the construction of a canal between the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers to connect the Great Lakes and the Mississippi.

 

Nice bond.

 

That is a beauty!

 

It came from Chet Krause's collection of Wisconsin financial documents.

 

That would have been the Portage Canal. I just looked it up on Wikipedia. Interesting history.

 

Just another radar

 

Another nice one (radar)

 

Nice radars tech. You seem to have quite a few of those : )

 

That Eastern Airlines certificate is a bit of a mystery. In the bottom left is the imprint of Security-Columbian / United States Banknote Corp. But at the lower left of the vignette itself is "F B Co." At the time, the only firm by those initials would be Federated Bank Note Co. -- and that company was a competitor of U.S. Banknote. Hmmm, I wonder what the story is behind that.

 

All of the ones I posted I purchased for $0.50 per in a bulk package. There are definitely certificates worth a bunch that might be counterfeited, but for the most part, I don't worry about that because if I'm spending so little on something that looks nice, it doesn't matter too much if it's real or not.