Scripophily (12 results)

Not Bound. Condition: Very Good. Scripophily. Three stock certificates; two made out to Wm. Breckinridge Smith for 100 shares and one to Richter & Co. for 100 shares; signed by the principals; back of certificates with transfer details. Printed by the Franklin Bank Note Co. NY. Approx. 7 1/4" x 11 1/2" size; old fold lines, light wear; in very good condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Two stock certificates; made out to Thomas I. Hunter, one 1918 certificate for 500 shares and to Hamilton B. Wills in 1916 for 500 shares; signed by the principals; back of certificates with transfer details. Printed by the American Bank Note Co. Ottawa. Approx. 7 1/2" x 11" size; old fold lines, light wear; in very good condition.

Not Bound. Condition: Very Good. Scripophily. Stock certificate made out to Thomas I. Hunter for five hundred shares in this company, signed by the principals; with the company's corporate seal. Back of certificate with transfer details. Printed by GOES. Approx. 7" x 10 7/8" size; old fold lines, light wear; in very good condition.

Not Bound. Condition: Very Good. Scripophily. Stock certificate made out to Thomas I. Hunter for 1000 shares in this company; with the company's corporate seal, signatures of principals; back of certificate with transfer form. Printed by the British American Banknote Co. Ltd. Approx. 8 1/2" x 12" size; old fold lines, little bit of edgewear; in very good condition.

Not Bound. Condition: Very Good. Scripophily. Stock certificate made out to Thomas I. Hunter for 125 shares in this company; with the company's corporate seal; back of certificate with transfer form. Approx. 8 1/2" x 11 3/4" size; old fold lines, little bit of edgewear; in very good condition.

Not Bound. Condition: Very Good. Scripophily Specimen. Blank printers' specimen certificate; well-engraved in dark blue on white heavy quality paper, with a classical motif vignette at top. E.A.W.BN. CO at lower left, B 75 A at lower right corner; back is blank. Not dated and circa 1920s. Approx. 15 1/2" x 10 1/2" overall size; light edge wear & darkening; a sample sheet for this company; in very good condition.

Not Bound. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A certificate, "Exchangeable for coupon bond." for the former nation of Yugoslavia. Dated NY October 1, 1933; signed in ink by the Consul General at New York, also by the Fiscal Agent and in print by various directors, supervisors and minister of the country. Approx. 8" x 11" size; printed in red on good bond paper stock by Hamilton Bank Note New York. Old fold lines; slight wear; in very good condition.

Not Bound. Condition: Very Good. Stock Certificates. Stock certificates for this Maine-registered company with interests in gold & silver mining and lumber activities in Chihuahua Mexico; company officer signed & countersigned by the transfer agent and registrars, with the corporate blind-stamp; printed by the American Bank Note company. Approx. 7 3/4" x 10 7/8" size; light wear, old fold lines; in very good condition.

Not Bound. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. "Twenty year six per cent U.S. dollar gold bond."; for the former Republic of Poland, with the imprinted notice that the interest was reduced and payment extended from April 1, 1940 to April 1, 1958; signed in ink by the agent and in print by various directors, supervisors, minister of the country; attached sheets of coupons, dated from April 1940 onward; nice vignette of the Polish eagle; approx. 7 3/4" x 14 1/2" size; printed blue and black on good bond paper stock by American Bank Note Co.; old fold lines; slight wear and edge-soiling on the title; in very good condition.

Not Bound. Condition: Good. First Edition. Receipt number 53, made out to C.M. McKeever for 200 hundred dollars, in payment for 200 shares of preferred stock in this company, signed by the syndicate manager Chas. E. Bally(?) on July 28, 1903; back is blank; front with engraved green border-work, nice eagle vignette at top center in black; approx. 9 1/4" x 11 3/4" size; printed on medium quality certificate paper stock by H.K. Brewer Co. New York; old fold lines, edgewear and chipping, soiling; in good condition and interesting American mining business history scripophily from the early part of the 20th century.

Not Bound. Condition: Good. First Edition. Stock certificate, No. 153, made out to C.M. McKeever. for a quarter share in this company, signed by the president, J.C. Stanley on July 1, 1919 and the treasurer C.M. McKeever; with the company's blind-stamp corporate seal; also countersigned by C.M. McKeever as the Transfer Agent and the Registrar of the Metropolitan Trust Co. NY asst. sec. Benz; front with engraved orange border-work; approx. 7 3/4" x 10 3/4" size; printed on good certificate paper stock by American Bank Note Company N.Y.; old fold lines, little edge, tips wear, clip-residue; with cancellation-hole; in good condition and interesting business history scripophily.

Not Bound. Condition: Very Good. Stock Certificates. A small archive collection of 38 stock certificates and 2 related finance-related letters; the evidence of this portfolio of investments provide the history of the financial activities of the Ray brothers - Colonel Frank H. Ray a New York investor, vice-president of the American Tobacco Co. and his brother Dr. C.R. Ray, who investigated various opportunities for Colonel Ray and partnered with him on several deals in the American far West, as evidenced here; including Oregon related certificates: (1) 1903 Gold Ray Rod & Gun Club Jackson County Oregon to C.R. Ray, Bushong & Co. Portland Or. printers; (9) 1909 Condor Water and Power Company Oregon, made to F.H. Ray, H.C. Stoddard (engineer for the brothers) & others, Goes, printer; 1911 (4) Gold Ray Granite Company Medford, Jackson County Oregon, made out to C.R. Ray & a few associates, Glass & Prudhomme Co. Portland, printers; 1912 (2) Lucky Tou Velle Copper Mining Company Oregon, one to each Ray brother, Medford (OR) printing company; 1912 (2) Southern Oregon Mining Bureau Oregon to the Gold Ray Realty Co., Goes imprint; 1908 (2) Crater Lake Company Oregon to Frank H. Ray Anderson & Duniway Portland OR printers; 1908 - 1917 (5) Orchard Home Company Medford, Jackson County Oregon, to F.H. Ray & a few associates, Glass & Prudhomme Co. Portland OR printers; Miscellaneous stock certificates including: (1) 1895 United States School Furniture Company to Frank H. Ray, S.D. Childs Chicago printers; 1920 ( 8) Radio Power Corporation, Delaware registry, to F.H. Ray, American Bank Note printers; 1905 (1) The Lakewood Country Club Chautauqua County NY to F.H. Ray, Albert B. King & Co. NY printers; 1916 (2) Hydrocarbon Products Company Arizona to Chas. W. Turner, The Broun-Green Co. NY printers (with) 2 pieces of related ephemera - 2 typed letters, of January 1917, regarding agreement to transfer Hydrocarbon stock to a Mr. Carr via Turner & Ray - one with an interesting paragraph of explanation regarding the ".burning of the plant at Lorillard." - one is signed by Frank H. Ray and with an approval signature of Chas. W. Turner, both with edgewear and old fold lines, one with corner chipped, the other with old clip-mark; 1924 (1) Certificate of Shares for the Par Securities Corporation Delaware registry, to Frank H. Ray, W.N. Perrin Co. NY printers; The Ray brothers were very influential in the development of this area of Oregon: ".Besides the Rogue River Electric Company, Gold Ray Dam and power houses and several hundred miles of power lines, they own a number of mines and several thousand acres of land as well as choice realty in the various cities of the valley. Their latest undertaking was the formation of the Orchard Home Company, the planning, subdivision, caring for and selling on easy terms of choice orchard tracts for the purpose of enabling men of small means in the East to acquire fruit holdings. The Ray brothers are developers on a large scale." (quoted from the Medford Mail Tribune, January 2, 1910 pg. 10); some light wear, old fold lines, occasional splitting to the certificates; in very good condition and interesting real estate, mining & power development history, especially of this area of Oregon, via this investment ephemera.