New online scripophily articles and references, September 2014
The oldest Siemens share is an American one !
Dr. Roland Schmidt tells us a remarkable story about the two Siemens brothers Friedrich and Werner and their achievements in gas and electrical lighting. Check out his latest post "
Oldest Siemens Share Certificate".
American Security Printers Guide
The
American Society of Check Collectors (ASCC) is non-profit organization of collectors of checks and other financial documents like drafts, bills of exchange, promissory notes et cetera. See some nice examples
here. Interesting for us, the ASCC maintains a
Security Printers Guide. You can download a PDF version
here. In this list of more than 70 pages, check the 'Type' column for the letter "s" in order to find the names of printers of stock and bond certificates.
Shares for Children
A lot of kids are fascinated by the heroes on the big screen created by D
REAMW
ORKS, Disney and Pixar. At the age of ten, my favorite pastime was playing with
MATCHBOX cars.
Nonvaleurs News's online issue of last August brings a special about "Children" shares. See
here, for the English and
there for the German edition.
The History of Derivatives
The
Museum of American Finance organizes a college level class titled
The History of Derivatives (17th Century - present). See
here for the outline of the program. The Museum offers several 45-60 minute classroom programs, by request only, taught in the education center by museum educators and industry professionals. Standard classes cost $250 and advanced classes cost $500. Classes can accommodate up to 40 people and include museum admission. An overview of other classes can be found
here. A good idea for a school trip in New York !
Scripophily Magazine
The International Bond and Share Society (IBSS) recently announced their last issue of Scripophily magazine on their Facebook page, see
here. I'll come back to this later. In the mean time, in addition to the online sources above, the second last April 2014 No.94 issue of Scripophily magazine contains the following stories :
- World Top One Hundred, the 100 highest prices since IBSS was founded in 1978
- Catalogue of Shares, by the Serbian Numismatics Society
- Stamp Taxes on Nevada Stock Certificates, an online publication (link in the magazine).
- Rare Comstock certificates, about the Wells Fargo Mining Co.
- Cox's Corner : The funny thing about valuing collectibles
- The Ducktown Desert and the Case of Tennessee Copper
- Country Survey : the Netherlands Indies
- Belgian Economic Activities in Romania before the Great War
- other periodical topics : society matters, news, bourse reviews, auction reviews, events calendar, member classifieds, book reviews, interviews and lots of pictures of collector friends and scripophily.
F.L.