Yesterday a neat item arrived, so I thought I'd give this thread a bump and post it. This is a 1909 gallery pass to the House of Representatives, produced by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. I posted another one of these earlier in the thread, but this one uses red ink and the design looks great.
I love the older, but my gen. loves those 60-70 concert tickets, I'm in a mad rush to so if I find mine...
I'm giving this long-dormant thread a bump because, well, it's just a fun topic. Also I found a neat piece to add. This a little proof of a (5¢?) ticket for the Atlanta Street Rail Road, probably from the 1880s. It's no larger than a postage stamp (I scanned one for scale), but intricately engraved with a mule-drawn trolley. Probably very few of these tiny tickets survived. Who's got something else to post?
Here's an item that is not quite a ticket, but close enough. It's a 1900 annual pass for free passage on the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway. It ran on more than 500 miles of track in the upper peninsula of my home state of Michigan.
Wow! Great looking tickets up there! I have a few I bought a couple of years ago. Their really small, I'll show a pic with a dollar! ~Cheers!
Wow. Puts mine to shame. All I have are some 2010 Unused NCAA Division 1 Men's Basketball Championship tickets. I found them in an envelope in the middle of a book I bought at a garage sale for 10 cents. Probably be worth something someday to someone.
Fretboard, what you actually have there are bond coupons. These were attached to a bond and snipped off twice annually as interest was paid. Or, more recently, snipped off by collectibles dealers looking to make a few extra bucks from unsuspecting buyers. Sorry to say, they aren't worth much of anything to collectors of obsolete stocks and bonds. You can learn more on this thread: Beautiful Stocks and Bonds
I also keep tickets of films, theatre, bus, train and air journey which I took. I am surprised many others also do the same and I alone is not a fool there are so many others. Ha..ha...ha!
I uncovered something interesting today, while searching for something else. This is a 1948 airline ticket from Detroit to New York (or Newark) -- or actually the stub. Along with the original envelope it was issued in. Looks like the passenger paid $31.45 for their seat. I don't know if that was cheap or expensive at that time.
That's really unusual, gsalexn. It would be interesting to see how air travel was back then. A lot less comfortable than today, I'm sure. I have an old train ticket in the original folder from about the same time, I think. I'll have to see if I can find it. I don't recall any details about it off hand. Bruce
I found my old train ticket stub. It was my mother-in-law's from when she traveled from Philadelphia to Ft. Pierce, FL. in 1943 to visit her husband in the army. He later was involved in the D-Day invasion, but rarely spoke of his experiences...not unusual for veterans. The ticket cost $51.15. Bruce
@BRandM Very cool piece of history. Thanks for sharing. That was an expensive ticket back in the 40's no doubt.
Thanks, Mitch. I thought the same thing when I first noticed the price. I have the original envelope too that notes the cost. Bruce
These tickets, etc. are very cool many are beautifully artistic. The only ticket I ever hung on to were from some of the events I attended at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. These are none of mine, but gives you an idea of what they look like:
Those are very attractive. Looks like a little circular hologram in the upper left? Nice -- thanks for posting!