Post some tickets!

Discussion in 'Paper Money' started by north49guy, May 9, 2010.

  1. gsalexan

    gsalexan Intaglio aficionado

    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. 1909 House pass.jpg
     
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  3. Galen59

    Galen59 Gott helfe mir

    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...
     
  4. MitchBailey

    MitchBailey Active Member

    Very nice.
     
  5. gsalexan

    gsalexan Intaglio aficionado

    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?
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  6. The Beard

    The Beard New Member

    I have about 12 different lottery tickets like these. Large and beautifully colored. IMG_0001.jpg IMG_0002.jpg IMG_0004.jpg IMG_0005.jpg
     
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  7. gsalexan

    gsalexan Intaglio aficionado

    Those are cool! I like the serial numbers on the one with the man and woman.
     
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  9. gsalexan

    gsalexan Intaglio aficionado

    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.

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  10. fretboard

    fretboard Defender of Old Coinage!

    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!

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  11. MontCollector

    MontCollector Well-Known Member

    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.
     
  12. gsalexan

    gsalexan Intaglio aficionado

    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
     
  13. Alok Verma

    Alok Verma Explorer

    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!
     
  14. gsalexan

    gsalexan Intaglio aficionado

    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.

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  15. BRandM

    BRandM Counterstamp Collector

    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
     
  16. BRandM

    BRandM Counterstamp Collector

    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
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  17. MitchBailey

    MitchBailey Active Member

    @BRandM Very cool piece of history. Thanks for sharing. That was an expensive ticket back in the 40's no doubt.
     
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  18. BRandM

    BRandM Counterstamp Collector

    Thanks, Mitch. I thought the same thing when I first noticed the price. I have the original envelope too that notes the cost.

    Bruce
     
  19. The Fonz

    The Fonz In God We Trust - All Others Pay Cash

    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:

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  20. gsalexan

    gsalexan Intaglio aficionado

    Those are very attractive. Looks like a little circular hologram in the upper left? Nice -- thanks for posting!
     
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    lordmarcovan Eclectic & Eccentric Moderator

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