Scripophily Journal 2004-05
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Why Do So Many Dealers and Collectors Consign or Sell to Smythe? Top Dollar Paid on Direct Purchases. Record Breaking Auction Prices. Competitive MAYMAY 2004 2004 Auction Commissions Rates. Friendly, Personalized Service. Impeccable References. Expert Staff of Nationally-Recognized Specialists. Thoroughly Researched & Beautifully Illustrated Catalogues. Generous Cash Advances, Flexible Terms. Stephen Goldsmith (Stocks, Bonds, U.S. Coins) Diana Herzog (Autographs) Scott Lindquist (U.S. Small Size, Nationals) Martin Gengerke (U.S. Large Size, Fractionals) Tom Tesoriero (Ancient & Foreign Coins) David Vagi (Ancient Coins) Jay Erlichman (U.S. Coins) Robert Litzenberger (Autographs) WITTE KREUGER BRUNEL 2 Rector Street, 12th Floor, New York, NY 10006-1844 TEL: 212-943-1880 TOLL FREE: 800-622-1880 FAX: 212-312-6370 E-MAIL: [email protected] INTERNET: smytheonline.com INTERNATIONAL BOND & SHARE SOCIETY • YEAR 27 • ISSUE 1 SCRIPOPHILY DEALERS’ LISTS LIBRARY COLLECTORS’ BILLBOARD Alistair Gibb, 17 Floors Place, Kirkcaldy, Fife, IBSS publishes a series of illustrated monographs Collectors’ ads on this Billboard are FREE by members on aspects of scripophily. KY2 5SF, UK WANTED - SCRIPOPHILY AUCTION Company Histories 04/1 lists around 100 used These titles are currently available: CATALOGUES AND FIXED PRICE LISTS books of company history and business biography. ... encouraging collecting since 1978 # 1 Gregor MacGregor, Cazique of Poyais P rior to 2001 (especially Gypsyfoot and Smythe). Mostly British but some Dutch and US. by Richard T Gregg, 1999 Paying up to $5 each. Please write first! Reasonable prices from £2 up. Max Hensley, P.O. Box 741, # 2 T he Emergence of the Railway in Britain Lake Forest, IL 60045, USA. America West Archives, PO Box 100, Cedar City, by Prof Dr Udo Hielscher, 2001 UT 84271, USA TENNIS-RELATED CERTIFICATES Catalog 145 has 25 stock certificates amongst 16 # 3 The Scripophily Guide WANTED FROM AROUND 1900 pages of mainly Western documents, letterheads, by Howard Shakespeare, 2002 Thomas Black drafts, photos, prints, postcards. Some are fixed- price from $11 up, others are offered at auction. Tel: (+44) 1535 661121 Fax: (+44) 1535 691745 MAY 2004 • YEAR 27 • ISSUE 1 Price each: $10/£6 Email: [email protected] The star stock is an 1876 Montana piece with a including packing and airmail postage mining vignette not seen before and the Territorial NEW ZEALAND WANTED seal – Gregory Mining Co. ORDERS AND ENQUIRIES Any NZ-related pre-1940 shares wanted Email [email protected]. North America: Society Matters 3 for my collection IBSS, 15 Dyatt Place, Hackensack, NJ 07601, USA. GJC Anderson, 2 The Cottage, Norris Lane, Northern Pacific Railroad Archive [email protected] tel: (+1) 201 489 2440 Chaddleworth, Berks, RG20 7DZ, UK Two dealers have co-operated to produce an 8-page Outside North America: coloured flyer about their offerings of stocks from News and Reviews 4 IBSS, PO Box 9, Tadworth, KT20 7JU, UK. the Northern Pacific Railroad archive. George H [email protected] tel/fax: (+44) 1737 842833 Send your ads to the Editor. LaBarre ([email protected]) and Scott J • Research help wanted • Great Cariboo Winslow ([email protected]) present iden- • Northern Pacific archive • New republics tical flyers with identical prices. Other dealers in Europe and the US have produced similar listings. • Facsimile signatures . and more besides Typical are a set of five NPRR stocks of the same design but different denominations/colours at $100, Showcase 11 and a range of stocks signed on the reverse by prominent financiers such as John D Rockefeller ($3,500), Jay Cooke ($750) and D O Mills ($250). Features Scott J Winslow Associates, PO Box 10240, The Russo-Chinese Bank Bedford, NH 03110, USA The journal of the by Steve Maier Fine Historical Collectibles, Spring 2004, is an 8- INTERNATIONAL BOND & SHARE SOCIETY 12 page glossy from this well-known auctioneer and Brunel Bridges WE SELL A WIDE RANGE OF INTERESTING dealer, concentrating on autographed pieces and OLD SHARES, BONDS & MAPS IBNS is an international organisation devoted Editorial team: Advertising rates by Brian Mills 14 fine US stocks from $275 up, including early oils Brian Mills Editor One-sixth page: to the study of world paper money. It issues a such as The Allegheny & Walnut Bend Oil Co Howard Shakespeare black-only £30 quarterly journal, holds frequent auctions, and stock 1864 at $375. An 1860 State of California My Special Pieces SEND FOR OUR FREE CATALOGUE European Editor black + spot colour £40 bond for ‘suppression of Indian hostilities’ is priced by Robert O Greenawalt 15 holds meetings at paper money shows. Larger sizes: pro rata WE ALSO BUY Dues are $20.00 per year. at $2,500. Email: [email protected]. Addresses on Committee page Cover pages } prices on application Before the Panama Canal – Part 3 WH Collectables, 24 Ipswich Road, Woodbridge, Artwork For membership information, contact the Copy dates: by Howard Shakespeare 16 Suffolk, IP12 4BU, UK General Secretary, saying you read about him March 31, June 30, Opinions expressed by the editors and by Sales List NP is another in the regular series from GKR BONDS LIMITED in Scripophily - contributors are not necessarily those of Matchless this long-established dealer, this time listing some September 30, December 31 PO Box 1, Kelvedon the Society. by Howard Shakespeare 18 Milan Alusic 60 interesting bonds and shares, half of them US ND BO &S The Society does not accept responsibility Colchester CO5 9SH and the rest from 15 other countries. Noticeable L H IBNS General Secretary A A for the contents of advertisements. pieces, all around £65-£75 – a scarce Lynchburg N R IBSS Auction Preview 22 O E P O Box 1642 I T & Durham Railroad stock (TN, NC) 1891, Mann’s S ISSN 1462-8074 A Tel: 01376 571711 (24 hrs) Racine, WI 53401, USA O N Boudoir Car Co gold bond 1886, The Euphrates C Copyright © International Bond & Share R I E E T T Y N Fax: 01376 570125 (24 hrs) Tel. (+1) 262 554 6255 Valley Railway Co share 1853, a vignetted Aust- I Society, London, 2004 Auction News and Reports 23 Email: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] www.ibns.org ralian silver mine share 1889, Birkenhead United Tramways Omnibus & Carriage Co share 1891. Higher priced items include a ‘new’ type of the Events Calendar 31 SCRIPOPHILY 1824 Colombian government debt at £285. 2004/1 32 IBSS COMMITTEE We buy & sell EVENTS CALENDAR INTERNATIONAL Stocks © Bonds International P CHAIRMAN & MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY hily rom June Peter Duppa-Miller, Beechcroft, Combe Hay, Bath, p o 5 IBSS Fair & auction view, London ipo ti BA2 7EG, UK Share Certificates cr on (+44) 1694 731359 (see page 2) Tel: (+44) 1225 837271 Fax: (+44) 1225 840583 BOND & SHARE SOCIETY s ND S 10-13 * Memphis International Paper Money Email: [email protected] BO &S L H Show (+1) 901 757 2515 A A are always included N R O E 18 IBSS Mail Auction (+44) 1707 875659 I T S ECRETARY S A O in our auctions 19 FHW Auction & Bourse, Munich N C Philip Atkinson, 167 Barnett Wood Lane, Ashtead, R I E E (+49) 5331 9755-33 T T Y N Surrey, KT21 2LP, UK I N 26 Gasche Mail Auction (+41) 62 794 29 64 Tel: (+44) 1372 276787 Email: [email protected] July Send for next catalog 6 IBSS Annual General Meeting & mini TREASURER auction, London (+44) 1372 276787 Martyn Probyn, Flat 2, 19 Nevern Square, London, ANNUAL FAIR N 13 * Bonhams Auction, London SW5 9PD, UK Tel/Fax: (+44) 20 7373 3556 (+44) 20 7393 3917 Email: [email protected] BONDS & SHARE CERTIFICATES 24 * Smythe Coins, Paper Money, Stocks & Bonds Auction, New York City AUCTIONEER H.J.W. DAUGHERTY (+1) 212 943 1880 Bruce Castlo, 1 Little Pipers Close, Goffs Oak, AND EXHIBITION Open by Appointment Herts EN7 5LH, UK Tel: (+44) 1707 875659 P.O. Box 1146 August Email: [email protected] Eastham, Mass., 02642, USA Room 633, Linen Hall 21 FHW Sommerfest & Snap Auction, will take place on 162 - 168 Regent Street, London W1B 5TG Wolfenbüttel (+49) 5331 9755-33 TRADE RELATIONS Phone:(508)255-7488 Fax:(508)240-5789 Tel/Fax: 020 7039 0123 Michael Veissid, Hobsley House, Frodesley, September Shrewsbury, SY5 7HD, UK Email: [email protected] 11 FHW/HSK Auction & Bourse, Hamburg Tel: (+44) 1694 731359 Fax: (+44) 1694 731451 SATURDAY JUNE 5th 2004 (+49) 40 60750 387 Email: [email protected] October USA CHAPTER - PRESIDENT & TREASURER at the R EIN HIL DD TTSSCCHHÖÖPPEE 2-3 HWPH Auction & Bourse, Würzburg Richard Gregg, R EIN HIL D (+49) 81 06 24 61 86 15 Dyatt Place, Hackensack, NJ 07601-6004, USA 2-3 * World Paper Money Fair, London Tel: (+1) 201 489 2440 Fax: (+1) 201 592 0282 VICTORY SERVICES CLUB Auctions and Private Treaty Sales of (+1) 20 8428 4002 Email: [email protected] 10 * Moneta Maastricht (+31) 6414 29926 63-79 SEYMOUR STREET Historic Securities and Financial Documents 16 Kürle Auction & Bourse, Gelnhausen USA CHAPTER - VICE PRESIDENT LONDON W2 2HF (near Marble Arch) (+49) 6051 820810 Ted Robinson, P O Box 814, Richboro, PA 18954 Bruchweg 8, D-41564 Kaarst, Germany 17 VVFH Bourse, Antwerp (+32) 1541 2963 Tel: (+1) 215 357 6820 Fax: (+1) 215 357 4847 (phone after 1900 hrs) Email: [email protected] Tel:(+49) 2131 602756 Fax: (+49) 2131 667949 Mobile: 0171 2068386 21 to * Old Paper Fair, Paris Open 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. email: [email protected] www. tschoepe.de Nov 1 (+33) 2 3885 9669 EDITOR 21-24 * Smythe Currency, Stocks & Bonds Show Brian Mills,PO Box 9, Tadworth, Surrey, KT20 7JU, & Auction, Strasburg PA UK Tel/Fax: (+44) 1737 842833 We always welcome your consignments.