2009 Historic Stock Certificate Calendar from Scripophily.com is a Big Hit during Holiday Season Includes Lehman Brothers, Countrywide Mortgage, First U. S. Real Estate Bubble Disaster from 1795, Standard Oil Trust signed by John D. Rockefeller and many more
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2009 Historic Stock Certificate Calendar is a Big Hit during Holiday Season
Includes Lehman Brothers, Countrywide Mortgage, First U. S. Real Estate Bubble Disaster from 1795, Standard Oil Trust signed by John D. Rockefeller and many more
WASHINGTON, DC (December 7, 2008) - Scripophily.com ®, the Internet’s largest buyer and seller of collectible stock and bond certificates, is offering a Wall Street Scripophily Calendar with each month featuring a unique certificate in full color for $9.95 plus shipping. This is a perfect gift for customers, employees, friends, collectors, students and everyone else. The actual size of the calendar is 8 1/2" x 11" ( perfect size for mailing ) with 28 color print pages including the cover.
This wonderful collection of certificate images include the North American Land Company (First U. S. Real Estate Bubble Disaster) signed by Robert Morris - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1795, Countrywide Mortgage Obligations, Inc. (Became Countrywide Financial Corp bailed out by Bank of America) – 1986, Compagnie Des Installations Maritimes De Bruges 1904 , Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc. (Issued Pre Bankruptcy and Delisting), United States Steel Corporation 1901 issued to Andrew Carnegie $100,000 Bond, Sikorsky Aero Engineering Corporation signed by Igor Sikorsky - New York, 1923, Ford Motor Company Prototype Stock Certificate Design – 1951, Hoboken Ferry Company hand signed by one of the Lehman Brothers (Emanuel Lehman) – 1897, Indian Motorcycle Company (E. Paul duPont as President) - Massachusetts 1930, New York and Harlem Rail-Road Company signed by Jacob Little signed Certificate - Original Great Bear of Wall Street, Bodie and Benton Railway and Commercial Company 1886 signed by Henry Marvin Yerington as President , General Motors Company 1917 - New Jersey, Playboy Enterprises, Inc. with Hugh M. Hefner as Chairman (Famous Willy Rey Nude Vignette) - Delaware 1982, Standard Oil Trust Signed by John D. Rockefeller.
Scripophily (scrip-ah-fil-ly) is the hobby’s name of collecting old stock and bond certificates. Values range from a few dollars to more than $100,000 for the rarest. Tens of thousands of Scripophily buyers worldwide include casual collectors, corporate archives, museums and serious collectors.
“During these unprecedented political and economic times, we felt that offering a calendar of stock certificates was an important way to show the historic nature of the hobby of Scripophily, according to Scripophily.com’s CEO and Founder, Bob Kerstein.
“Physical stock and bond certificates are a permanent history of capitalism representing a cross section of the financial markets we know today.” Added Kerstein.
Scripophily.com - The Gift of History is the internet’s leading buyer and seller of collectible stock and bond certificates and has had items on loan for display in the Smithsonian’s Museum of Financial History in New York, been featured on CNBC, USA Today, Baltimore Sun, Washington Post and in many other media publications. The company also offers an old stock research service at OldCompany.com and also offers high resolution scans for publications. Scripophily.com has over 14,000 different selections including categories such as Frauds,
