14 rare collectible vintage stock and bond certificates from american companies that are worth a fortune

It turns out that throwing something like a bunch of old dusty stock certificates you found stuck in a box on your attic is not such a good idea. There is a chance you have a real treasure in your hands! The value of those could also be a lot less, but that doesn’t mean these pieces of paper are worthless.

A business called Stock Search International (founded in 1969), helps people to find out if their moldy stock certificates have any actual value. The job involves a lot of investigation – digging trough libraries and state offices all around.

But even if there isn’t any current stock market value, there is a huge collector market that is hungry to obtain some of those certificates. The hobby of people collecting stock and bond certificates is called “scripophily”, loosely translated as “love of paper”.

By putting your fantasy to work, you can imagine how rich you would be today if you acquired a share from a company founded in the first decade od the 1900’s…

Take a look at these extremely rare pieces of American corporate history.

Boeing Airplane Company (Early Boeing Airplane Company stock certificate) – Delaware 1952

 

Colgate-Palmolive

 

Coca-Cola Company – Delaware 1923

 

Atari Corporation – Issued to Warner Communications Investors, Inc. for 1,064,518 Shares in Atari Acquisition – 1989

 

Apple Computer, Inc. with John Sculley as CEO – California 1991

 

Standard Oil Trust signed by John. D. Rockefeller, Henry M. Flagler and Jabez Abel Bostwick 1882

 

Caterpillar Tractor Co. – California 1976

 

 

American Merchants Union Express Company ( Became American Express ) – 1869 signed by William Fargo

 

Ballantine & Co. Brewery – RARE Certificate #1 signed 3 times by Robert Francis Ballantine – New Jersey 1900

 

New York Times Company (Orvil E. Dryfoos as President) – New York, 1957

 

Winchester Repeating Arms Company issued to Winchester Bennett – 1929

 

Paramount Pictures Inc. – New York 1935

 

Walt Disney Productions – Los Angeles, California – Roy Disney as President -1966

 

Petroleum Development Company signed by Edward L. Doheny (Famous Los Angeles Oil Pioneer & Teapot Dome Scandal) – California 1900

 

Source: Scripophily