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( Acquired by Yahoo ) Payforview.com Corporation Peregrine, Inc - Delisted and Under Investigation Point.com, Inc - Washington Priceline.com Prodigy Communications Corporation Stock Certificate - Scripophily QuePasa.com, Incorporated Razorfish, Inc. - Internet Dot Com Roller Coaster Real Networks -RealJukebox and RealPlayer software company Red Hat, Inc - Microsoft Windows Operating System Competitor Register.com, Inc. RMI.NET, Inc. ( Internet Commerce & Communications ) Salon.com Sharper Image Corporation Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) Sirius Satelite Radio Stock Certificate - Car Radio via Satellite - Scripophily SmarterKids.com Snowball.com Sportsline.com Stamps.com theglobe.com - world came to an end on August 15, 2001 thehealthchannel.com TheNETdigest.com, Inc TheStreet.com, Inc. Tickets.com Monster.com with Famous Logo as Vignette Toddlerwatch.com uBid Online Auction US Web Corporation with Joseph P. Firmage as Chairman VeriSign ( Network Solutions Dot Com Domain Name Registry ) VerticalNet, Inc. Voyager.net ( Now CoreComm ) Webhire, Inc. Whoodoo.com Women.com Networks ( iVillage acquired Women.com in June 2001 ) Worldwide Web Networx Corporation Paypal - Acquired by EBAY Harvard Net, Inc - Medford, Massachusetts eToys.com eToys.com Travel Zoo, Inc. - Delaware TTM Technologies - Delaware pcOrder.com, Inc (Dor Com Bust) - Delaware Lycos, Inc. - Delaware PC Connection, Inc. IPO Certificate - Delaware Alta Vista Internet Search Engine Company - Delaware NBC Internet, Inc. (NBCI) - Delaware America Online Latin America, Inc. (Rare Specimen) - Delaware Discreet Logic (Now Autodesk Media and Entertainment) - Quebec, Canada AOL Time Warner (Rare Specimen) with Gerald Levin and Steve Case as Officers - Delaware 2001 Viant Corporation - Delaware Webstakes.Com, Inc. - Delaware 1999 eBay Inc. (Specimen) - Delaware MarketWatch.com (Specimen) - Delaware Amazon.Com (Old Logo) RARE Specimen - Delaware Go.com - Walt Disney Company - 2000 DoDah Worldwide, Inc. - Florida 2002 Expedia, Inc. - Washington 1999 Homegrocer.Com, Inc. (Acquired by Webvan) - Washington 2000 CyberCash, Inc ( Became PayPal) - Delaware 1996 McAfee.com (IPO Certificate) - Delaware America Online, Incorporated (AOL) with Steve Case as Chairman ( Pre Time Warner Merger ) Yesmail.com, Inc. (IPO Stock Certificate) - Delaware 1999 CyberSource Corporation IPO Certificate - Delaware 1999 Cyberonics, Inc. - Delaware CyberMedia, Inc. (IPO Stock Certificate) - Delaware Cybergold, Inc. - Delaware 1999 HomeServices.Com Inc. (IPO Stock Certificate) - Delaware 1999 Garage.com - (IPO Certificate) Delaware BidBay.com, Inc. (Sued by eBay) - Nevada 2000 XOOM.com, Inc. (IPO Certificate) - Delaware 1998 Fine.com International (Became About Fine Solutions, LLC) - Washington Supplyforce.Com, LLC - Pennsylvania 1999 Network Solutions (original domain name registrar ) - Delaware 1999 Pets.com, Inc. - Delaware ImproveNet.com - Delaware Yahoo (IPO Certificate) - California 1996 EarthLink Network, Inc. - Delaware 1996
Telephone, Telegraph, Broadband United River Plate Telephone Company - 1938 Operated in Buenos Aires - Certificate #1 for 7,790,855 Shares Bingham and Moose River Telephone and Telegraph Company - Maine 1885 Automatic Telephone Exchange Company (Limited) of Washington and London - West Virginia 1897 Central Maine Shaver Telephone & Telegraph Company - 1891 Telephone Rentals Limited - 1968 UK Western Union Telegraph Company - New York 1900 Bodie and Hawthorne Telephone and Telegraph Company - California 1892 Bell Canada - Canada People's Telephone Company - New York 1887 Northwestern Overland Telephone and Telegraph Company - Illinois 1884 Alberta Government Telephones Commission - Canada 1965 Allen Group Inc. ( Now Allen Telecom Inc. ) American Credit Card Telephone Company 1987 American District Telegraph Company ( ADT Security Systems) - 1972 American Telephone and Telegraph Company - Specimen American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company 1970 American Telegraphone Company 1907 American Telegraphone Company 1917 - Early Wire Recorder American Telephone & Telegraph Company ( AT&T ) - 1930's Andover Electric Telephone Co. 1907 - Ohio Associated Telephone Company $1000 Bond 1935 - California ( Now Verizon ) Associated Telephone Company 1940's ( Early Verizon Company ) American Telegraph and Telephone Company AT&T 1940's - 1950s American Telephone and Telegraph - Alexander Graham Bell AT&T Corporation - LAST CERTIFICATE ISSUED - Acquired by SBC Communications Bayshore Telephone Company - Shelton, Washington 1926 Bell Atlantic Corporation Bell Canada Bell Canada Best Telephone Manufacturing Company - West Virginia 1896 Blooming Grove Bell Telephone Company 1915 Broadwing Inc. ( formerly Cincinnati Bell ) - Name changed back to Cincinnati Bell on May 27, 2003 Burlingame Telegraphing and Typewriter Company 1908 Burlingame Telegraphing and Typewriter Company May 1908 Callensburg Telephone Company - Buffalo Vignette Pennsylvania 1953 Central Telephone & Utilities Corporation ( Early Centel ) Cincinnati Bell - Ohio Cincinnati and Suburban Bell Telephone Company (Cincinnati Bell - Broadwing Inc) Coin Phones, Inc Stock Certificate New York to Paris Telegraph Cable Company - 1879 Commercial Telephone Company Gold Bond 1901 - Texas Connecticut Telephone Company (SNET) 1882 ( Early AT&T Company ) signed by Governor Marshall Jewell Consolidated Telephone Companies of Pennsylvania 1908 - Gold Note Cosmopolitan Telephone and Telegraph Company - 1917 Delaware Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company (Became Bell South) Henderson , Kentucky, 1884 Ericsson Telephone Company - 1911 Farmers & Merchants' Mutual Telephone Association 1909 General Telephone and Electronics Corporation (Now Verizon) - 1960's Globe Telephone Company 1884 - Famous ATT Patent Fight Gordon Telephone Company of Charleston Gold Bond 1902 Gray Telephone Company (Early 3 Coin Slot Candlestick Pay Phone Vignette) Gray Telephone Pay Station Company - Earliest Known Pay Phone 1936 Hawaiian Bell Telephone Company 1880's Hawaiian Telegraph and Telephone Company 1907 - Hawaii Territory Home Telephone Company Illinois Bell Telephone Company - 1976 - Specimen Indiana Bell Telephone Company, Inc. (Ameritech) Indiana Bell Telephone Company, Incorporated - Specimen Indiana Bell Telephone Company - 1970 Specimen Intermedia Communications of Florida, Inc. - RARE Pre IPO Shares (Now WorldCom Company) Inter-Communicating Telephone and Signal Corporation - New York International Telephone and Telegraph Stock Kona-Kau Telephone and Telegraph Company of Holualoa, Hawaii 1890's Lucent Technologies Inc. Maryland Telecommunications, Inc. Maui Telephone Company 190_ MCI Communications Corporation Bond ( Pre Worldcom Merger ) Mediterranean Electric Telegraph Company - 1853 Media One Group ( Became ATT Broadband.com now Comcast ) Metro-Tel Corporation Metropolitan Telephone and Telegraph Company - 1912 Gold Bond Metropolitan Telephone and Telegraph - 1912 Mexican Telephone Company Stock Certificate - 1890's MFS Communications Company Inc. MFS Communications Company Inc. ( Acquired by WorldCom ) Municipal Telephone and Utilities Company 1930 - 6% Convertible Gold bond Mutual Telephone Company 1890's - Honolulu, Hawaii National Telephone Company - England 1906 National Telegraphone Company 1903 - Distrtict of Columbia New Brunswick Telephone Company ( Now Aliant Inc ) - Canada New England Telephone and Telegraph Bond (Pre NYNEX) New York Telephone Company 1954 New York Telephone Company - 1958 Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation Northwestern Bell Telephone Company - Specimen Northwestern Bell Telephone Company - 1970s - Specimen Noisy River Telephone Company - Ontario, Canada 1922 Nortel Networks Corporation NYNEX Corporation ( New York and New England Telephone merger ) - World Trade Center in Vignette New York Telephone Company Bond Certificate Pacific Northwest Bell Company 1970's ( U.S. West Company ---> Became Qwest ) Pacific Telephone and Telegraph $1,000 Bond Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company 1909 - 30 Year Gold Bond Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Company - Wisconsin Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company - 1977 Peoples Mutual Telephone Company 1898 - San Francisco, California People's Telephone and Telegraph Company - New York City 1887 Postal Telegraph and Cable Corporation 1934 Postal Telegraph and Cable Corporation - Maryland 1938 Puebla Telegraph and Telephone Company - New York 1883 Santa Fe Telephone Company, Inc. - Melrose, Florida 1952 Shanghai Telephone Company - 1933 Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph 1939 ( Early Bell South ) Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company - 1947 Southwestern Bell Telephone Company Southwestern Bell Telephone Company - 1970s Southwestern Bell Telephone Company Southwestern Bell Telephone Company Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company 1887 Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company Southern Telegraph Company 1882 Sprint Corporation PCS Group Telephone Bond and Share Company United Telephone Corporation - Early Telephone Vignette U.S. West, Inc. - ( Acquired by Qwest ) Western Union Computer Utilites, Inc. Western Union Telegraph Company (Western Union no longer sending telegrams) Williams Communications Group, Inc. Wisconsin Bell Telephone Company Bond Wisconsin (Bell) Telephone Company - Ameritech Wisconsin Telephone Company 1974 Wisconsin Telephone Company - 1971 WorldCom, Inc. Western Electric Company, Inc. New York and Pennsylvania Telephone & Telegraph Company ( Early AT&T ) - New York 1889 Merchants Union Telegraph Machine Company - Portland, Maine 1882 Central District and Printing Telegraph Company - Pittsburgh, Pennysylvania 1891 ( Now Verizon ) General Cable Corporation - New Jersey 1928 New Telephone Company - Indianapolis, Indiana 1898 Kona-Kau Telephone and Telegraph Company 1907 - Holualoa, Hawaii Northwestern Bell Telephone Company - Iowa 1926 Tri-State Telephone and Telegraph Company ( Now Qwest ) - 1929 Maui Telephone Company 1910 - Issued Northeastern Telephone Co. (Became New England Telephone and Telegraph - NYNEX) - Maine 1904 Marconi Radio Telegraph Company of Egypt - 1926 Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph Company - Delaware 1968 Harrison Telephone Company $1,000 Gold bond - Deadwood, South Dakota 1901 Western Electric Company Specimen Employee Benefit Certificate Bell South Corporation Fort Dodge Telephone Company (Old Telephone in Vignette) - Iowa 1923 National Teletype Company - Washington, D.C. 1916 Fort Dodge Telephone Company - Iowa 1923 Echo Telephone Company - West Virginia 1891 NYNEX Corporation - New York and New England Telephone merger - (World Trade Center Vignette) - Delaware Illinois Bell Telephone Company - Illinois 1960 Universal Telephone, Inc. - Delaware 1971 American Mobile Systems Incorporated - New Jersey Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company - Utah Territory 1904 American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T Corporation) Specimen Certificate - New York 1959 Locke Insulator Corporation - Maryland 1921 Mexican Telegraph Company - New York Western Electric Company, Incorporated - New York 1920 United Telephone Company - Delaware 1912 Hawaiian Telegraph and Telephone Company (Now Verizon )- Honolulu, Hawaii 1909 Dictaphone Corporation - New York MCI Communications Corporation ( RARE Specimen Bond) Pre Worldcom Merger - Delaware Commercial Cable Company (Mackay Bennett Transatlantic Cable System)- New York 1897 American Telephone and Telegraph Company Report - New York 1923 Southwestern Bell Telephone Company - Missouri 1938 American Telephone and Telegraph Company - New York 1936 New York Telephone Company (Became NYNEX) Gold Bond - 1919 Ameritech Corporation (Part of ATT Break up) - Delaware 1994 Pacific Telephone and Telegraph - California 1948 Hawaiian Bell Telephone Company - Hawaii 1880 360 Communications Company - Delaware 1996 Drawbaugh Telephone & Telegraph Company - New York 1895 Dakota Central Telephone Company - South Dakota 1927 American Information Technologies Corporation - Ameritech - Delaware 1987 Lincoln Telecommunications Company (Became Aliant Communications ) - Nebraska 1994 Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company 1903 Vonage Holdings Corp. (Specimen) - Delaware Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company - New York 1911 Improved Pulsion Telephone Co. - Maine 1893 New England Telephone & Telegraph Company signed by Theodore Vail (First President of AT&T) - New York 1883 Hawaiian Bell Telephone Company - Hawaii 1888 Hawaii Telephone Company (Certificate #1) - Hilo, Kingdom of Hawaii 1913 Hilo and Hawaii Telephone and Telegraph Company - Hilo, Territory of Hawaii 1912 Mutual Telephone Company (Uncancelled) - Honolulu, Hawaii 1904 Southwestern Bell Corporation - Delaware 1993 American Information Technologies Corporation - ATT Breakup (Ameritech Corporation) - Delaware 1984 New England Telephone and Telegraph Company - New York Hamakua and South Kohala Telephone and Telegraph Company - Hawaii Southern New England Telephone Company (Part of ATT Break up)- Connecticut 1983 Southern New England Telephone Company (Part of ATT Break up) - Connecticut 1967 US West, Inc. (Part of ATT Breakup) - Colorado 1986 American Telephone and Telegraph Company (Uncancelled) - New York 1982 Pacific Telesis Group - Nevada 1986 Cosmopolitan Electric Underground Telegraph, Telephone, and Electric Light Company of Camden, N.J. - New Jersey 1884 GTE Corporation - New York 1989 American Telegraph-Typewriter Company signed by George A. Cardwell - Delaware 1910 Piersen Telegraph Transmitter Company - Topeka, Kansas 1917 Empire Bell Telephone Company - Idaho 1905
Computers and Technology Activision ( Famous Video Game Company ) Atari Corporation - Famous pioneer video game (Pong) Company Automated Microsystems, Inc. (AMS ) 1980's Bay Networks, Inc. - 1998 ( Now Nortel ) Broadcom, Inc (Henry T. Nicholas III as President) Broadvision Burroughs Computer Corporation ( Now Unisys ) Coleco Industries, Inc. ( Inventors of ColecoVision and Cabbage Patch doll's) Computer Applications Incorporated (CAI) Stock Certificate - 1970 Community Computer Corporation (TBC Industries) CompuSave Corporation Computer Horizons Corporation 1986 Commodore International Limited (Commodore Computers) - 1989 Computer Research, Inc. Computer Retrieval Systems, Inc. Comshare Computer Telephone Company of Chicago 1969 Concord Computing ( Now Concord EFS and First Data Corp ) - Massachusettes Consolidated Computer Industries, Inc. 1970 Corel Corporation Creative Computers ( Now PC Mall ) Data Management Services, Inc Digital Equipment Corporation - DEC ( Pre Compaq and HP ) - 1970's - Old Computer Vignette Eagle Computer ( Attack of the Clones ) Electronic Data Systems (EDS) Corporation 1985 Electronic Data Systems Corporation ( EDS ) Electronic Data Systems Corporation ( EDS ) Electronic Arts Electronic Mail Corporation of America 1982 - Early Email Company Franklin Computer Corporation (Franklin Publishing) Gateway, Inc. ( Computer Company ) General Instrument Corporation ( Now Motorola ) Greyhound Computer Corporation - Old Computer Vignette Hewlett - Packard Company (Carly Fiorina as CEO) Hewlett - Packard Company (Carly Fiorina as CEO) Hewlett - Packard Company J. D. Edwards and Company ( Acquired by People Soft then Oracle ) MagneTek, Inc Mark Computer Systems, Inc. Micron Technology Motorola, Inc. National Cash Register Company - NCR Computers National Semiconductor Corporation - Charlie Sporck as president 1970 Newbridge Networks Corporation ( Now Alcatel ) Oracle Corporation People Soft, Inc ( Acquired by Oracle ) Perot Systems Corporation - Ross Perot as President Rand Information Systems, Inc. Remington Rand Inc. (UNIVAC Maker, Early Burroughs Computer Co. and Unisys Corp.) Savin Corporation Scientific Software Corporation - Denver, Colorado Sperry Corporation - ( Now Unisys ) Texas Instruments Incorporated ( Pat Haggerty as Chairman ) 1972 Texas Instruments Incorporated Wang Laboratories, Inc, Wang Laboratories, Inc, 1960's Wang Laboratories, Inc. Accounting and Tabulating Corporation - New York 1917 Technical Material Corporation - New York 1970 National Cash Register Company ( Old Cash Register Vignette ) - Maryland 1938 Network Appliance, Inc. - California CMS/Data Corporation - Florida Data Processing Financial & General Corporation - Delaware Cinematronics Inc. - Delaware 1985 ( Famous Arcade Game Maker ) Corrigan Communications, Inc. - California 1962 Kenfil, Inc. - Delaware ( Now Ameriquest Technologies ) Teletext Communications Corp. - Delaware 1976 - Issued to William R. Hewlett (cofounder of Hewlett Packard) National Semiconductor Corporation - Delaware CRC Investors, Inc. - New York 1981 Pneumatic Transit Company - New Jersey 1898 Smith-Corona Marchant Inc. - New York Maxtor Corporation, Delaware ( hard disk drive manafacturer ) CMS/DATA Corporation, Florida Geophysical Micro Computer Applications (International) Ltd., Canada Mag-tronics Corporation - Minnesota 1961 AOL Time Warner SPECIMEN Silicon Transistor Corporation Coral Systems, Inc (Acquired by Lightbridge ) Coleco Industries, Inc. - ( Inventors of ColecoVision and Cabbage Patch doll's) Remington Rand Inc. (Fractional Share Exchange Certificate) - UNIVAC Computer Maker Denning Mobile Robotics, Inc ( Early Robot Maker) - Delaware Computervision Corporation - Delaware Xonics, Inc. - Delaware 1981 Sperry Rand Corporation - UNIVAC Computer maker became Unisys Intel (Computer Chip Maker) - No longer issuing Stock Certificates U.S. Transistor Corporation ( Early Transistor Company) - New York, 1960 International Business Machines Corporation (Uncancelled) - New York 1979 Cal-Tech Systems, Inc. - Delaware Automatic Computer Manufacturing Company - Canon City, Colorado 1912 Remington Rand, Inc - Delaware 1947 Levin-Townsend Computer Corporation - New Jersey 1971 Siltronics, Inc. - Oakmont, Pennsylvania Information Systems Leasing Corporation - Pennsylvania 1970 E.P.G. Computer Services, Inc. - New York 1971 Lectro Management Stock - Abacus Vignette Automatic Bookkeeping Register Company - Delaware 1916 Master Security Services, Inc. - Washington 1981 E-Systems, Inc. - Delaware Marchant Calculating Machine Company ( Became Smith Corona ) - California California Computer Products ( Now Lockheed Martin ) - California 1971 Corona Typewriter Company, Inc. - New York 1923 Compaq Computer Corporation Convertible Debenture - (Pre Hewlett - Packard Acquisition) - Delaware 1985 Compaq Computer Corporation - (Pre Hewlett - Packard Acquisition) Affiliated Computer Systems, Inc. - Texas 1971 Intuit, Inc ( Makers of Quicken, Quick Books and Turbo Tax ) Texas Instruments Incorporated ( Pat Haggerty as President) - 1966 Vanguard Data Systems - California 1969 M/A - Com, Inc. (Now Tyco Electronics) - Massachusetts General Instrument Corporation - Delaware 1989 K & M Electronics Company - Baltimore, Maryland 1969 Microwave Associates, Inc. (Became M/A Com) - Massachusetts 1978 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. - Delaware Dell Computer Corporation - Delaware E-Systems, Inc. (Now Raytheon) - Delaware 1972 Corning International Corporation (Fiber Optics) - Glass Blower Vignette - Delaware 1971 Tandem Computers Unique Production File (James Treybig as Officer) - Delaware Digital Equipment Corporation - Massachusetts 1950-1960's Honeywell Bull Nederland N.V. - Amsterdam 1976 Enableipc - Delaware Honeywell, Inc. - Delaware INFO-MED Datasoft, Inc. - Delaware 1985 Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation - Delaware Numerical Technologies, Inc. - Delaware Tri-State Telephone and Telegraph Company (Candlestick telephone Vignette) - 1928 Dictaphone Corporation - New York 1975 Fared Robot Systems, Inc. - Colorado 1987 Hogan Systems, Inc. - California 1982 Microsoft - Bill Gates as Chairman (Rare Specimen) International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) Wordstar International Incorporated - Delaware 1989 PeoplePC, Inc. (IPO Stock Certificate) - Delaware 2000 Microsoft (Michael R. Hallman as President) - Delaware 1990 Logic Devices Incorporated - California 1988 Cray Inc. - Washington Cybermatics Inc. - New York Hoku Scientific - Delaware Electronic Data Systems Corporation with Roger Smith as Chairman - Delaware 1992 American Micro Devices, Inc. - Minnesota 1968 Cali Computer Systems, Inc. Molecular Devices -Delaware Chips and Technologies, Inc. - Delaware 1991 Fared Systems, Inc. - Delaware 1989 Cisco Systems (Rare Specimen Certificate) - California 2000 California Computer Products Incorporated ( CalComp ) - California 1958 Commodore International Limited Wallace Business Forms, Inc. (Wallace Computer Services, Inc.) - 1978 International Business Machines Corporation - New York Comdisco, Inc. - Delaware 1981 Comdisco, Inc. - Delaware 1983 Pericom Semiconductor Corporation - California Oracle Corporation - Delaware 1990 Lotus Development Corporation - Delaware 1987 Kurzweil Applied Intelligence, Inc. ( Acquired by Lernout & Hauspie) - Delaware 1996 Analog Devices, Inc. - Massachusetts 1988 Chordiant Software, Inc. IPO Stock Certificate - Delaware 2000 Powertrader, Inc. - Delaware Eastman Kodak Company - New Jersey 1968 Computervision Corporation - Delaware 1985 Sun Microsystems - Delaware 1989 Compaq Computer Corporation - Delaware 1990 American Type - Bar Machine Company ( Early Typewriter Company) - New York 1903 Vina Technologies - Delaware
Cellular. Satellite and Wireless General Cellular Corporation ( Became Western Wireless ) AT&T Wireless Services, Inc. - Formally McCaw Cellular now Cingular Wireless Cellular Information Systems, Inc. ( Price Cellular ) Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. Hughes Electronics - DIRECTV Motient Corporation - Satellite / Terrestrial Communications ( Was American Mobile Satellite ) Brightpoint, Inc Western Wireless - Acquired by Alltel Edify Corporation ( Now S1 Corporation ) LIN Broadcasting Corporation - 1975 ( Acquired by McCaw Cellular ) Globalstar Telecommunications - Satellite Phone Company Cellular Communications Incorporated CCI 1988 - Air Touch Metrocall Paging Company Nextel Partners Inc. (Acquired by Sprint) Orbital Sciences Corporation - SPECIMEN Nextel Communications, Inc. (Last Stock Certificate - Now Sprint Nextel ) Poulsen Wireless Corporation - Territory of Arizona 1911 American DeForest Wireless Telegraph Company 1907 Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company 1914 Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of Canada 1909 Echostar - DISH Network -Satellite TV Poulsen Wireless Corporation - Arizona 1911 signed by George A. Pope Satnet International, Inc. - Nevada 1983 McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc. CM Communications, Inc. - Delaware Radio Cab Company - Oregon 1971 Sirius Satelite Radio Stock Certificate - Car Radio via Satellite - Scripophily Qualcomm, Incorporated - Delaware Satellite Systems Corporation ( Early Satellite Vignette) - Texas 1971 Metromedia, Inc. (Became Fox Television Network) John Kluge as President - Delaware 1976 Sprint Corporation PCS Group AirTouch Communications - California 1994 Poulsen Wirelesss Corporation - Arizona 1919 Walker Telecommunications Corporation (Early Cellular Phone Manufacturer) - New York 1986 Poulsen Wireless Corporation - Arizona 1911
Media, Publishing, Cable TV Rand McNally and Company - Illinois 1916 International Educational Publishing Company - New Jersey 1911 Torstar Corporation - Ontario ( Toronto Star Newspaper ) Columbian-Sterling Publishing Company - Delaware 1911 ( Famous Columbian Magazine ) American News Company ( Specimen ) Argyle News Company 1898 AOL Time Warner with Gerald Levin and Steve Case as Officers -( Now Traded as Time Warner ) American News Company Stock Certificate - Early Paperboy Vignette Gemstar -TV Guide International, Inc. Foote, Cone & Belding Communications - Major Advertising Company General Outdoor Advertising Co. Stock Certificate - Scripophily Dando Printing and Publishing Company 1885 Geographic Educator Corporation 1927 Arbitron Inc. CNET Networks, Inc. Biscayne Publishing Company - Daily Tribune - 1924 - Miami, Florida Golden Books Family Entertainment McGraw - Hill Publishing Company Lewis Publishing Company 1906 McGraw-Hill, Inc. Washington Critic Company 1887 - Washington DC Newspaper - Owl Vignette signed by Hallet Kilbourn Sun Publishing Company Limited - British Columbia, Canada Kankakee Daily Journal Company Knight - Ridder Newspapers, Inc. Salon Media Group Media General Inc. - Virginia McGraw - Hill Publishing Company, Inc. Courier Publishing Co. 1917 - Dallas, Texas Commerce Clearing House Inc. Curtis Publishing Company (Saturday Evening Post & Ladies Home Journal) Prentice - Hall Book Company 1930's - Founder Richard Prentice Ettinger as President Vanderbilt Newspapers signed by Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr - 1924 Chinese Directory Company 1901 - San Francisco, California Irish - American Advocate Co. 1902 Human Life Publishing Company - Boston, Massachusetts 1917 Wayne Whipple Advertising Agency - Massachusetts 1904 Judge Publisihing Company, Inc. - New York 1928 J2 Communications - (Now National Lampoon) - California Columbian Magazine Publishing Company - Delaware 1910 Los Angeles Improvement Company - 1885 Western Publishing Company, Inc. - Racine, Wisconsin Newsprint Reclaiming Corporation, Delaware 1919 National Correspondence School of Railroading School of Railroading - Illinois 1908 Time, Incorporated - New York ( Pre Warner Communications and AOL mergers ) American Railway Publishing Company - Pennsylvania 1892 Scientific American Compiling Department - New Jersey 1912 National Tribune Corporation ( Became Stars and Stripes ) - Delaware 1928 California Graphic Inc. - California 1925 National Farm News Publishing Company - Washington D.C. 1932 Detroit Times Company bought by William Randolph Hearst - Detroit, Michigan 1921 Atkinson, Mentzer & Grober ( Book Publishers ) - Chicago, Illinois 1907 Register and Leader Company (Now Des Moines Register) - Des Moines, Iowa 1909 Atlantic Monthly Company ( Famous "The Atlantic" Magazine ) - Massachusetts Jewish Tribune - New York 1929 Saatchi & Saatchi Company PLC - American Depositary Share Cape Ann Breeze Company Newspaper - Gloucester, Massachusetts 1901 Wall Street Facts, Inc. - New York 1923 United Business Publishers, Inc. (Vignette of bare breasted maidens ) - Delaware 1933 Cable Media Corporation - Delaware 1972 Washington Journal Company - Washington DC 1911 Acton Corporation (Cable TV) - Massachusetts, 1981 Press Claims Company of Washington D.C. - Virginia 1894 Evening Post Publishing Company - San Francisco, California 1887 Baptist Publishing Company - Oklahoma, Territory 1907 Taft Broadcasting Company - Delaware 1959 Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI with John Malone at President) - Delaware 1968 Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (Ted Turner as President) - Georgia Liberty Media Corporation (Peter Barton as President) - Delaware Cox Broadcasting Corporation (Now Cox Communications Inc. ) - Georgia Financial Times Limited - England 1962 Philadelphia Demokrat Publishing Company - Pennsylvania 1908 Fatherland Corporation signed by George Sylvester Viereck - New York 1922 United Kingdom Press Association - London 1900 Hartford Times, Incorporated - 1928 Daily Telegram Company - Long Beach, California 190_ California Ink Company (Cal/Ink) developed the nation's first magnetic inks for check imprinting - California 1920 Encyclopedia Americana Corporation - New York 1915 St. John Times Printing and Publishing Company (Limited) - Newfoundland, Canada 1923 International News Ticker Company - New Jersey 1893 TelePrompTer Corporation - New York Army and Navy Journal, Incorporated - Washington, D.C. 1925 Polish American Encyclopedia Publishing Association, Inc. - New York W.F. Morris Publishing Company (Baldwinsville Gazette Newspaper) - Baldwinsville, New York 1895 Boston Herald Traveler Corporation - Massachusetts 1941 Historical Register Publishing Company - New Jersey 1895 Times-Herald Company - Michigan 1911 ScoutMasters Publishing Association - New Jersey 1916 Multimedia, Inc. - Delaware Arizona Gazette Company ( Now Arizona Republic) issued to B. M. Goldwater - Arizona 1926 Six Towns' Times Publishing Co. - Maine 1921 American Book Company - New York Allyn and Bacon, Inc. (Book Publishers) - Delaware 1969 N.W. Ayer & Son (First advertising agency in the United States) Tele-Tape Productions, Inc. - Illinois 1968 Kentucky Press Club - Louisville, Kentucky - 1920's Teleprompter Corporation (Russell Karp as President) - New York Poale Zion Publishing Association, Inc. signed by Baruch Zuckerman - New York 1921 Stan Lee Media, Inc ( Creator of Spiderman ) Knight-Ridder, Inc.(newspaper publisher) - Florida Washington Post Company - Delaware Telemundo Group, Inc. - Delaware 1988 Metromedia, Inc. (Became Fox Television Network) John Kluge as President - Delaware 1983 Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. - New York Hearst - Argyle Television, Inc. - Delaware Time Warner Inc. - Delaware Curtis-Martin Newspapers, Inc. - Pennsylvania 1930 Comcast Corporation - Pennsylvania 1998 Kuryer Publishing Company (First Polish Newspaper in U.S.) signed by Michael Kruszka - Milwaukee, Wisconsin 1913 Media General Inc. - Virginia 1969 Alexander Hamilton Institute - New Jersey 1927 Davenport Gazette Company - Iowa 1882 Chicago-United Artists Theatre Corporation - Delaware 1928 Jewish Tribune Corporation - Delaware 1929 Atlanta Times, Inc. - Georgia 1964 Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. - Delaware 1987 Rand McNally & Company - Delaware Time Warner Inc. with Steve Ross as Chairman - Delaware 1991 Poale Zion Publishing Association, Inc. signed by Baruch Zuckerman - New York 1920 Nielsen Media Research, Inc. - Delaware 1998 Caucasian Publishing Company issued to Marion Butler - Raleigh, North Carolina - 1895 Associated Trade Press Limited - England 1931 Caxton Society, Incorporated (co-operative publishing society) - Pittsfield, Massachusetts 1911 Columbian-Sterling Publishing Company ( Columbian Magazine Publisher)- Delaware 1911 Communications Properties, Inc. - Delaware 1977 AC Nielsen Corporation - Delaware 1996 Orange Judd Company (American Agriculturist Publisher) - New York 1908 General Electric Company - New York 1940's Irish Press Corporation - Delaware 1937 United Press International, Inc. - Delaware 1989 Reporter Publications, Inc. (Gentry Magazine ) - New York 1946 Reading Tribune, Inc. - Delaware 1923 La Crosse News Publishing Company - Wisconsin 1890 Radio Investor Frank T. Stanton & Co. Newsletter - New York / London 1929 Observer Company, Inc. - Baltimore, Maryland 1932 McMillan Type - Setting Machine Company - Glens Falls, New York 1890 Rand Publishing Company - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 1886
Other Communications A - L American Pneumatic Service 1930's American Electric and Manufacturing Company 1890 - Washington DC Boston Digital Corporation Breakfast Club via Amateur Radio 1962 Broadband shows image of airplane designed by Burt Rutan (designer of Spaceship One) Bull Run Corporation - Bull Underprint Bunker Ramo Corporation Burgess Battery Company signed by Founder Dr. Burgess 1920 Butler Brothers ( Famous Department Store - New York & Chicago ) - 1910 Bradway & Guise, Inc. - Old Radio Station Vignette Central Agency Incorporated - 1930 Chargit, Inc Ciena Corporation Commercial Instrument Corporation 1930 Computerology, Inc. (W.S.C. Group) Compumedic Controls Corporation Copy Data Systems Stock Certificate Columbia Technical CTC Stock Certificate Coastal International, Ltd. ( Now Intelect Communications ) Corona Typewriter Company Crowell - Collier Publishing Company ( Collier's Weekly Magazine Publisher ) Cyclomatics, Inc. 1960's D&W Fuse Company (Electrical fuse used in subway cars) - Providence, Rhode Island 1906 Directomat, Inc - New York Subway Direction System Dando Printing and Publishing Company - 1885 Deutsche Post World Net Digital Recording Corporation Digital Technology Corporation 1974 Docutel Corporation ( ATM Inventor ) Dynelectron Company 1904 Edison Schools Inc. - Under Investigation by the SEC Electric Advertising Company 1885 Electronic Transistors Corporation 1973 ELECTROSPACE Corporation - Rocket Vignette Ellington Farmers Telephone Company Stock 1910 Earth Mount, Inc. 1960's Enquirer Publishing Company 1917 Ericsson Svensk-Dansk-Ryska ( Russian Telephone Company ) 1915 Energizer Holdings, Inc. Esquire, Inc. - Famous Magazine Executone, Inc. Farmers & Merchants' Mutual Telephone Association Norton, Kansas 1905 Farmers & Merchants' Mutual Telephone Association 1906 - Kansas Fibermatics, Inc. Flashlight Publishing Company of Baltimore City 1897 French Phototone Limited 1929 General Computing Machines Corporation 1950's General Electric Company 1956 $1,000 Bond - Ralph Cordiner General Electronics Corporation 1933 Ediphone (Thomas Edison's Dictaphone ) Company 1920's - SCARCE Hammermill Paper Company 1920's Home Correspondence School - 1920's - Massachusettes Identcorporation, Inc Stock Certificate - Fingerprint Vignette IntelCom Group, Inc. (ICG Communications) International Gradolph Electric Company 1914 - Arizona International Resistance Company Stock 1963 (TRW Inc. ) International Press Bureau 1917 International Robomation / Intelligence International Telephone and Telegraph Stock 1940's International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation 1970's International Video Corporation 1974 - Classic TV Cameraman Vignette I/O Devices Inktomi Corporation ( Acquired by Yahoo ) Interstate Cellular Telecommunications Incorporated Intranet Computing Corporation Italian Labor Publishing Company 1913 Ivy Microcomputer Corporation 1984 Jefferson and Warren Telephone Company 1901 - Ohio John Wiley & Sons, Inc. - Famous Publisher Jouet, Inc. - Woman and Lion Vignette Journal Publishing Company 1898 Journal Publishing Company 1930 - Florida Judge Computer Corporation LCC International, Inc. LC Smith & Corona Typewriters Inc. Leap Wireless International, Inc. Lee Enterprises, Incorporated ( Newspaper and Media Company ) Lectro Computer Leasing Corporation - Abacus Vignette Liberal News Co. 1910 - Watertown, New York Liberty Media Corporation Lindsay Newspapers, Inc. ( Sarasota Herald-Tribune ) - Florida Long Island Underground Telegraph Co. 1888 - Brooklyn, New York Loral Space & Communications Loyalsock Telephone Company Le Petit Troyen 1907 (The Little Trojan) LIN Broadcasting Corporation - Purchased by McCaw Cellular Loyalsock Telephone Company 1912 Liberty Radio Chain Stores Stock Certificate Emmner Union Telephone Company - Missouri 1887 American Manicopy Typewriter Company - 1923 Dictaphone Corporation 1923 Loral Electronics Corporation - New York 1968 International Pneumatic Tube Company (Pneumatic Tube Vignette) - 1920 Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph Company 1979 ( Became Aliant Communications ) Addressograph-Multigraph Corporation - Delaware American Pneumatic Service 1906 - Early Pmail System Automatic Register Company 1914 - 1915 Jungle Street, Inc.- Utah 1990 American Union Telephone Company $1000 Gold Bond - Pennsylvania 1906 Knight Ridder, Inc - Florida ICO Global Communications (Holdings) Limited - Delaware 2001 Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT) - 1964 New Sky Communications, Inc - New York 1988
Other Communications M - Z Magnum Communications Corporation 1970 Marketing Associates, Inc. Maul Technology Corporation (L-G-M Corp) 1980 Meredith Corporation Membership Certificate to the Telephone Pioneers of America 1938 Mid - West States Utilities Company 1931 - Early General Telephone Company Modern Data Techniques, Inc. - Old Punch Card Vignette Montevideo Telephone Company - Uruguay 1917 Music Master Corporation - 1926 Mutual Telephone Company - Honolulu, Hawaii 1880's Nashville Electronics, Inc. National Computer Analysts, Inc. (M Tech New England Corp) 1974 National Dyeing and Printing Company National Telephone Company, Limited 1897 National Tel-Tronics Corporation 1962 National Text-Book Company 1910 National Underground Electric Company 1886 - Camden, New Jersey Nevada Printing and Stationery Company 1907-Reno, Nevada Nippon Electric Company, Limited (NEC) 1969 Noisy River Telephone Co. 1915 - Creemore, Ontario North American Rockwell Corporation Stock North American Rockwell Overseas Corporation Bond North Carolina Telephone Stock Certificate 1955 (ALLTEL and Sprint) Oak Manufacturing Company ( Early Cable Converter Maker ) OAK Industries Inc. - Early Cable TV Converter and Subscription "On TV" Company Omni Spectra, Inc. ( Merged into M/A-Com ) Orbital Sciences Corporation Overland Telegraph Company 1901 Pages, Inc - 1971 Pathe Industries,Inc. - Red Rooster Vignette Peerless Press, Incorporated 1920 Peirce Wire Recorder Corporation (Early IBM Company) Perfect Photo Inc Stock Certificate Perfection Legal Blank Company 1908 - Early Legal Forms Company Philco Corporation Philippine Long Distance Company Polaroid Corporation - Pre Bankruptcy Polaroid Corporation Petit Journal 1896 - Famous French Newspaper Philco Radio Corporation Stock Certificate Phonographes & Cinematographes "LUX" (French Music Company with image of Statue of Liberty) 1906 Polaroid Corporation Polaroid Corporation Pulitzer Publishing Company PSI - Programming and Systems, Inc. - Trade School FRAUD Qualcomm Incorporated Radio Engineering Corporation 1922 Recordgraph Corporation 1940 Red Hat, Inc - Microsoft Windows Operating System Competitor Quinta Corporation Radiurgic Corporation Rambus, Inc Raytheon Manufacturing Company 1960's Raytheon Manufacturing Company 1950's RCA International Development Corporation Register.com, Inc. Remington Typewriter Company Rockwell Manufacturing Company 1947 Rockwell Manufacturing Company - Willard F. Rockwell, Jr as President Rohn Industries, Inc. Romanian Radio Station 1928 Rotogravure Publishing Company, Inc. Rural Service Company Patronage Stock 1930's Romanian Telephone Stock with coupons 1938 Soundview Technology Group, Inc. Southern Standard Press Company 1881 - St, Louis, Missouri Sperry Rand Corporation - UNIVAC Computer maker became Unisys St. Cloud Journal - Press Company 1892 - Minnesota Steinmetz Wireless Manufacturing Company - Early Radio Maker - 1922 Sterling Debenture Corporation 1906 Convertible Certificate for Telepost Company Submarine Signal Company - Pre Raytheon - Steamer Ship Vignette Sun Microsystems Storer Broadcasting Company St. Augusta Rural Telephone Company - Candlestick Telephone Vignette - Minnesota 1921 Sycor Inc. Sun Distributors L.P. 1991 Tandy Corporation ( Now Radio Shack ) Tee - Lee - Comm (Telecom) - Spoof Certificate from Germany - Thomas Edison Picture Teledyne, Inc. Telephone Employee Insurance Company - 1960's Telephone Rentals Limited 1947 Telepost Company 1908 -1912 - Early 20th Century Hi-Tech messaging service Telepost Company 1920 - Signed by H. Lee Sellers Television Industries, Inc Stock Certificate Telex Corporation Thompson Products, Inc (The "T" in TRW) 3DO Video Game Company - Early Video Game Pioneer in Bankruptcy Times Mirror Company 1971 ( Now owned by Tribune Group and Cox Communications ) Time Incorporated ( Pre Warner Communications and AOL mergers ) Time Warner Telecom, Inc. TiVo Inc. The Porto Rico Telephone Company in 1960's Trad Television Corporation - Early TV Trow City Directory Company 1873 - Early New York City Business Directory Tung-Sol Electric Tube Company Stock Certificate Tymshare, Inc. United States Independent Telephone Company 1906 - New Jersey United Utilities, Incorporated ( Now Sprint ) VA Linux Systems VM Software Williams Electronics, Inc. - Famous Pinball Machine and Game Company Telex Corporation United Business Publishers, Inc. Gold Bond - 1928 United Printers and Publishers 1930's - 1940's - Rust Craft Greeting Cards / Ziff Corporation United States Sealed Postal Card Company - New York 18XX United Utilities, Incorporated (Early United Telecom and Sprint Company) University Computing Company $1,000 Bond Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company Postal Instant Press, Inc. ( PIP Printing ) Mountain States Resources Corporation ( Became Micro-Media Solutions ) Nanometrics, Inc. Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Company - Washington North Western Telegraph Company - Wisconsin ( 6% Western Union Guarantee Stock ) New England Telephone and Telegraph Company - 1963 Telepost Company 1911 Western Union Corporation - Delaware 1970 Western Union International, Inc. - Delaware 1968 Tryon News Agency, Inc. New York 1948 Portafone Corporation - Arizona 1972 Rockwell Manufacturing Company Specimen - Pennsylvania 1925 Wonderphone, Limited - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 1922 Unitek Corporation - California 1970 Trimble Navigation with Charles Trimble as President - California 1996 Mail and Express Company - New York 1911 Skylynx Communications, Inc. - Delaware Right Now Technologies - Delaware Murdock Communications Corporation - Iowa 2001 Talk Company - New York 1903
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Rare, Autographs, Scandals, Misc Autographs and Famous People Pratt & Whitney Company issued Stock Certificate signed by Francis Ashbury Pratt - Connecticut 1896 Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company 1880 signed by Robber Barron Jay Gould as President City of New York Check signed by DeWitt Clinton as Mayor - 1814 Fire Department Appointment signed by Mayor Josiah Quincy, Boston, Massachusetts 1847 Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company 1887 signed by George Jay Gould Thomas A. Edison, Jr. and William Holzer Steel and Iron Process Company- New York City 1902 Waite Phillips signed letter - Tulsa, Oklahoma 1928 Cincinnati Railway Tunnel Company signed by General John C. Fremont - 1872 United States Steel Corporation 1901 issued to Andrew Carnegie $100,000 Bond Brighton Beach Racing Association signed by William Engeman, Brighton Beach Founder - New York 1897 Planet Hollywood Stock Certificate s/Demi Moore, Bruce Willis, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Sylvester Stallone Private Telephone Line Agreement signed by George Westinghouse - 1897 Oregon and Trancontinental Company signed by famous financier Henry Villard 1882 Pine Creek Railway Company signed by William K. Vanderbilt - 1885 Russel Sage Signed Letter - 1861 Signed Letter Written by B. F. Yoakum -1922 Splitdorf-Bethlehem Electrical Company signed by Splitdorf Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company 1898 signed by George W. Ely, New York Stock Exchange Secretary Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company 1899 signed by J. Malcolm Forbes Universal Pictures Company, Inc. Letter signed by J. Cheever Cowdin - Universal Pictures Chairman 1936 United States Lines Company 1943 - issued to Vincent Astor United Mine Workers of America - Check 1920's - p/ signed John L. Lewis / Kennedy Vertientes - Camaguey Sugar Company of Cuba issued to John Jacob Astor's son, Vincent Astor - 1947 Victory for America 1964 - Barry Goldwater Stock Certificate Walter Winchell Signed Check 1930's William A. Buckingham (Connecticut Governor) Appointment 1861 Helen Hayes signed Check ( Famous Actress) - National City Bank of New York 1943 Bell Aircraft Corporation document handsigned by Founder, Lawrence Bell on March 27, 1945 Letter written by E.L. Bulwer -1842 Pantepec Consolidated of Venezuela, Inc. signed by William F. Buckley as President - Delaware 1933 Philadelphia Traction Company 1905 - signed by George Widener as President ( Lost on Titanic ) Governor Appointment of Mottrom Dulany Ball - Richmond, Virginia 1871 Associated Vineyard Company signed by Isadore Zellerbach, San Francisco, California 1925 - 2 Certificates and Letter First National Bank of Dansville 1880 - New York Shubert Theatre Corporation - Lee Shubert as President Boeing Company Letter signed by Company President, William Allen - 1963 Signed Letter from William Winter - 1887 ( American journalist, poet and critic ) Signed Note from Edith Sitwell Photo Postcard signed by Famous Aviator and First Air Mail Pilot Earle Ovington - 1932 Commonwealth of Virginia Appointment signed by Governor, Claude A. Swanson - 1906 Farmers and Merchants Bank of Los Angeles 1874 signed by Civil War California Governor John G. Downey - Named City of Downey after him Connecticut Telephone Company 1881 - Early AT&T Company Farmers and Merchants Bank of Los Angeles - 1871 signed by Isaias W. Hellman and Prudent Beaudry Kahn Kid Komedies - 1920s Mexican Telephone Company - 1882 signed by Franklin Delano - New York Oregon and Transcontinental Company 1885 - E. H. Harriman United Mine Workers of America 1931 - Hand signed by Famous Union Leader John L. Lewis Joe Bonomo Publications, Inc. - New York 1940 ( Famous Bodybuilder ) Handwritten note from Erastus Corning to Albert Duggett Esq. - Albany, March 1861 Wolfman Jack signed Contract promoting Clearasil Acne Ointment 1975 Ediphone Company (Early dictation machine made by Thomas Edison) signed by Charles Edison - New Jersey 1928 Atari Corporation Non Public Stock issued to Jack Tramiel 100,000 Shares ( Tramiel founded Commodore, built Atari, and survived Auschwitz) Bare Market Print handsigned by Artist Board of Education City of Chicago signed by Mayor Edward J. Kelly 1935 Broadway Bank New York Treasury Check 1863 signed by Draft Riot Mayor Buckeye Steel hand signed by President George Bush's Great Grandfather, Samuel Prescott Bush 1927 City of Jersey City Gold Bond - 1926 Signed by Mayor Frank Hague Civil War related Check signed by John Hartranft 1865 - Civil War Medal of Honor Winner Certificate of Election State of Colorado 1880 Columbia Broadcasting Systems, Inc. Letter signed by Bob Trout 1939 Edgar Bergan Interests Stock Certificate plus Signed Check Equity Funding Bond - Huge Wall Street Scandal in the 1970s Eastern Air Lines 1939 - Eddie Rickenbacker as President Franklin Fire Insurance Company 1836 signed by first American Medical Association President Franklin Fire Insurance Company signed by Henry Carey (Famous Economist) 1835 Geo. Gunther, Jr. Brewing Company of Baltimore County 1900 Governor of Michigan ( Wilber M. Brucker ) 1931-1933 - Signed Photo Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company - First American Chain Store - 1916 handsigned by founder George Huntington Hartford Historic "Boss" Tweed Scandal Gang New York City signed check - 1870 Hollywood-Durant Star Motors, inc signed by Milton Prell Letter signed by the President of Princeton University 1922 Letter signed by the President of Princeton University Ansari X Prize - Lindbergh 75th Anniversary Flight - flown and handsigned by Lindbergh - Rare Opportunity Louisville Paper Mill Company 1893 signed by Biderman duPont - Kentucky Martin Johnson African Expedition (Famous Husband & Wife Africa Explorers / Movie Producers) - 1924 Merchants National Bank 1866 signed by famous publisher Joel Munsell Merrick and Jamaica Plank Road 1852 - signed John Alsop King Muhammad Ali Stock Certificate (Champburger Corporation ) - 1971 New York Governor and Mayor John T. Hoffman Signed Check 1868 Pan American World Airways circa 1950's - Juan Trippe PLUS Postcard Portrait of Helena Rubinstein by Salvador Dali signed by Helena Rubinstein circa 1943 Proof of Publication signed by U.S. President Warren G. Harding - 1900 Postcard Signed by Billy Carter brother of Jimmy Carter Pratt & Whitney Company 1890's signed by Francis Pratt SCARCE Utica and Waterville Rail Road Company signed by John Butterfield as President 1866 RIP Music, Inc. - California 1971 signed by Danny Thomas and Larry Gordon Teletext Communications Corp. - Delaware 1976 - Issued to William R. Hewlett (cofounder of Hewlett Packard) Wharf Players, Inc. signed by Bruce Ariss - Cannery Row Monterey, California 1951 Union Oil Company - Hardison & Stewart 1899 - RARE signed TWICE by Founder - Santa Paula, California Commonwealth of Virginia Appointment signed by Governor Thomas Walker Gilmer 1840 Russian Bond dated 1822 signed by Nathan Mayer Rothschild Clarence Chamberlin famous aviator signed Photo - 1938 Columbus, Chicago, And Indiana Central Railway - Issued to and signed by James Alfred Roosevelt, Ohio 1869 Indianapolis & Vincennes Railroad signed by Civil War General Ambrose E. Burnside 1867 Stone & Webster Stock signed by CBS Radio Pioneer William S. Paley - Delaware 1929 Burlingame Telegraphing Typewriter Company signed by Elmer Burlingame - Wollaston Massachusetts 1910 Riovista Land Corporation signed by famous Sugar Baron Manuel Rionda - 1932 James Walker Autograph - Harvard University, President - Massachusetts 1856 Election Results for Senator Tappan Wentworth of Commonwealth of Massachusetts signed by Governor - 1865 Crompton & Knowles Loom Works signed by Co Founder George Crompton - Massachusetts 1900 New York City Payroll approved and signed by William "Boss" Tweed - New York 1870 Seatrain Lines, Inc. ( Issued to E. Roland Harriman) - Delaware 1948 Poso Crude Oil Corporation issued to and signed by George F. Getty (Jean Paul's Dad) - California 1928 Royal Canadian Air Force WWII Photograph with 32 Signatures Wagner Electric Manufacturing Company signed by Founder Wagner - St. Louis, Missouri 1894 Washington Hunt Autograph - 1831 Fatherland Corporation signed by George Sylvester Viereck - New York 1922 Consolidated Virginia Mining Co. signed by Zeb Kendall - Nevada 1949 Rexor Company (Issued to and signed by Murder Victim, Elisabeth Mannering Congdon ) - 1924 MANUSCRIPT LETTER FROM JOHN BUTTERFIELD FATHER OF THE AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY - 1835 Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company (issued to August Belmont & Co. of Belmont Stakes) plus signed by Union General - New York 1894 Valley Railway Company signed by Founder of Western Union Telegraph 1889 - Cleveland, Ohio Northern Pacific Railroad Company - 1876 signed by Jay Cooke Northern Pacific Railroad Company - 1876 signed by Frederick Billings Northern Pacific Railroad Company signed by Robber Baron, E. H. Harriman - 1885 Northern Pacific Railroad Company signed by James B. Colgate - 1887 Wilmington and Northern Rail Road Company signed by Medal of Honor Winner H. A. Dupont 1890's J. Paul Getty Handsigned Check - 1942 Invesco International Corporation with Mickey Mantle as Chairman - Dallas, Texas 1971 British Colonial and Aeroplane Company, Ltd (Now BAE Systems) - Bristol, England 1913 Little Tavern, Inc. Signed by Clyde A. Tolson, Assistant Director of the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover - Delaware 1957 Orpheum Circuit Inc. signed by Martin Beck - 1920 - Early Silent Movie Theatre Chain Lake Placid Company (1932 Olympics) signed by Melvin Dewey (Dewey Decimal System Originator) - Essex County, New York 1922 Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis Signed Photograph South America Land and Cattle Company signed by Famous Boxing Promoter and New York Rangers' Founder, George Lewis "Tex" Rickard Rickard Texas Oil Company, Inc (Named after Famous Boxing Promoter and New York Rangers' Founder, George Lewis "Tex" Rickard) - 1919 American Merchants Union Express Company ( Became American Express )- 1868 signed by William Fargo Starr Piano Corporation (Gennett Records ) signed by Harry Gennett - Richmond, Indiana 1925 Atlantic and Pacific Steamship Company signed by Joseph. P. Grace of W. R. Grace and Co. - Maine 1913 Winter Park Hotel Company issued to Judge Lewis Lawrence - RARE - Florida 1885 Hamilton Carhartt Clothing Company 1910 - Signed by Founder, Hamilton Carhartt , as President Thomas Dewey - Earl Warren Presidential Dollar Contribution Certificate - Pennsylvania 1948 Herald Square Hotel Guest Register (Over 1000 Signatures) - New York 1942 - 1945 during WWII Kalamazoo, Allegan and Grand Rapids Railroad Company signed by Western Union Telegraph Founder - Michigan 1888 Weaver Broadcasting Corporation ( WOKE Radio Station now is WQSC ) signed by Harry Weaver- South Carolina 1977 Charleston Broadcasting Company (WHAM & WOKE Radio Station ) signed by Frederick G. Storey - Charleston, South Carolina 1955 Zeppo Marx handsigned Check - California 1977 Calaveras Central Gold Mining Company signed by Famous American Magician and Illusionist, Harry Sears - Calaveras. Angels Camp 1933 Judson Manufacturing Company 1887 - Oakland, California - Rare S.F. Bay (pre bridge) Vignette - Signed by dynamite inventor Egbert Judson Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated - New Jersey 1936 Matteawan Machine Company Stock Subscription Agreement with 28 Signatures - New York, 1852 Trans - Antarctic Expedition with signature of famous Mt. Everest Climber Sir Edmund Hillary De Forest Phonofilm Corporation 1925 signed by Lee de Forest Colgate - Palmolive - Peet Company (Peet Conceived the Idea of a White Soap and later merged with Colgate) signed by Founder William Peet - 1913 Westinghouse Air Brake Company Check signed twice by George Westinghouse (Revenue Stamps on Back) - 1872 Connecticut Telephone Company (SNET) 1882 ( Early AT&T Company ) signed by Governor Marshall Jewell Washington National Monument Society - Washington, D.C. 1849 Pratt & Whitney Company signed by both founders - Connecticut 1899 Big Four Gold and Copper Mining (Signed by Car Maker John W. Henney and Remick Music Corporation Founder, Jerome H. Remick) , Lake. Leadville, Colorado 1899 Union Bank of Delaware Check signed by Victor duPont - Wilmington, Delaware 1864 Denver, Texas, and Fort Worth Railroad Company signed by Grenville Mullen Dodge ( Dodge City was named after him)- Texas 1880's Splitdorf - Bethlehem Electrical Company - Charles Edison as President - 1930 Subscription Television 1965 - Issued to and signed by Jerry Lewis Manhattan Consolidated Extension Mining Co. - Goldfield, Nevada signed by Gurney Gordon and Richard Colburn- 1907 Borderline Pictures Corporation issued to Fred MacMurray (For Movie Borderline) - California 1949 United Artists Theatere Circuit, Inc. (Handsigned by President, Harry D. Buckley, and Secretary, Bertram S. Nayfack )- Maryland 1930 Mariposa Land and Mining Company $1,000 Bond - San Francisco, California 1875 Gimbel Brothers, Incorporated hand signed by Isaac Gimbel ( Founder) - Pennsylvania 1903 Chrysler Corporation - Lee Iacocca as Chairman Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company 1901 issued to Julius S. Bache &Co. New Jersey Junction Railroad $1,000 Bond signed by famous Banker J.P. Morgan 1886 Missouri Kansas Texas Railway Company issued to and signed by John D. Rockefeller - 1891 Cyrus W. Field Autograph Oregon and Transcontinental Company signed by George Pullman (Pullman Palace Car Company) - 1881 Atlantic City Racing Association signed by John B. Kelly, father of the late Princess Grace of Monaco - New Jersey 1951 Farmers and Merchants Bank of Los Angeles - 1871 signed by Isaias W. Hellman and Nelson Story Merchants National Bank check signed by Famous Whaler, Andrew Hicks - New Bedford, Connecticut 1860 Naval Appointment signed by Sir John Barrow (Named Point Barrow Alaska after him ) - 1831 William R. Warner & Co., Inc. (Became Warner-Lambert, Now Pfizer Drug company) signed by Gustavus Pfeiffer - Delaware 1940 Reo Motor Car Company 1916 signed by Ransom Eli Olds Edward Robinson Squibb handsigned Check (Bristol-Myers Squibb ) - New York 1853 Bank of the United States signed by Nicholas Biddle as President - Philadelphia 1838 Ira Gershwin handsigned check from American Play Company - New York 1957 Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railway Company Issued to E. H. Harriman Co. - New York 1887 Edna Ferber signed Letter (Movie Productions based on Ferber's work: Show Boat, Giant, Saratoga Trunk, Cimarron) - 1940 Chesapeake Ohio and Southwestern Railroad Company signed by Collis P. Huntington 1880's Riggs National Bank Check signed by Treasurer of the United States, James N. Huston - Washington, D.C. 1917 Houston and Texas Central Railway Company signed William Earle Dodge Co-founder of Phelps, Dodge & Co- Texas 1873 Adrian Union Hall Company signed by Governor Charles M. Croswell - Adrian, Michigan 1869 American Ship Building Company - George Steinbrenner ( Yankees owner ) printed signature as Company’s Chairman of the Board HBO - Home Box Office, Inc - Gerald Levin as President Kirshner Entertainment Corporation - Don Kirshner as president Times Mirror Company with Norman Chandler as Chairman - Los Angeles, California 1967 United Artists Studio Corporation signed by Robert Fairbanks as President - California 1928 Samuel Goldwyn, Inc. $50,000 Note signed twice by Samuel Goldwyn - California 1929 National First Aid Association of America handsigned by Clara Barton (Red Cross Founder) - Washington, D.C. 1908 Teresa Wright letter to Riggio Tobacco Corp. - New York 1943 Ethel Merman handsigned letter from Samuel Goldwyn Inc. - California 1935 Deion Sanders Player Contract (New York Yankees) With Topps Baseball Card Company dated 3/26/1990 Mark Fidrych Player Contract with Topps Chewing Gum Company - 1980 North American Land Company ( Washington DC Scandal ) signed by Robert Morris (signer of the Declaration of Independence) - Pennsylvania 1797 Sammy Davis Jr. signed Las Vegas, Tropicana Hotel Contract - August 18 1972 State of Missouri Note Signed by Governor Silas Woodson - Jefferson, Missouri 1874 Mosquito Land Grants signed by Captain Bedford Pim - Westminster, S.W. Great Britain 1868 Edgar Bergen and Charlie signed photograph Cincinnati, Washington and Baltimore Railroad Company signed by Orland Smith, Civil War Brigade General - Ohio 1884 Commonwealth of Virginia Appointment signed by Governor, Philip W. McKinney - 1890 Letter signed by Eddie Rickenbacker as President of Eastern Air Lines 1944 Commonwealth of Virginia signed by James Hoge Tyler - 1900 Commonwealth of Virginia signed by Virginia Governor, William Evelyn Cameron - 1880's Houston Westend Realty Company signed by Tennessee Governor, Ben Walter Hooper - Texas 1914 Honeywell Heating Specialties Company (Now Honeywell, Inc - Dow Average Component ) signed by Founder, Mark C. Honeywell - Wabash, Indiana 1924 Treasury Department Letter re: Fraudulent Treasury Notes- Signed by Secretary of the Treasury, Robert J. Walker - 1846 Central Pacific Railroad Deed signed by Leland Stanford 1881 Press Publishing Company signed by Joseph Pulitzer Jr - St. Louis, Missouri 1915 Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway Company handsigned by John D. Rockefeller- Missouri 1887 Honorary Citizen of Boys Town by Father Edward Flanagan - Nebraska 1948 Aviator's Pilot's License with Orville Wright's Signature - 1931 Jimmy Durante handwritten letter - 1938 Thunder Cave Corporation signed John Sears and Jeremiah Stokes - Famous book about 2 colored boys - 1935 CapTech Inc. (Issued to and signed by Sally Field) - California 1973 Official Souvenir Scorecard of the Cleveland Indians handsigned by Los Angels Angeles Team- June 1961 Metropolitan Playhouses, Inc. issued to and signed by Spyros P Skouras - New York 1944 Rare 1796 New York tavern license bond signed by Richard Varick, Mayor of New York National City Bank (Signed by Edwards Pierrepont ) - 1887 W.C. Fields Producing Company - Delaware, 1920 Cessna Aircraft Company signed by founder, Clyde V. Cessna - Kansas 1930 Navy Appointment signed by James Forrestal as Secretary of the Navy - 1946 Utah & Salt Lake Canal Company signed by Elias A. Smith - Utah 1891 Leo Carrillo "The Cisco Kid" signed radio contract - New York 1946 Microsoft - Bill Gates as Chairman (Rare Specimen) New York Central Sleeping Car Company issued to Augustus Schell - New York 1882 Miquel & Bacardi, S.A. signed by E. Bacardi - Cuba 1956 Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company (3M) 1903 - Signed by 3M Company Founders Dizzy Dean handsigned Photo on Card Black Butte Extension Mining Company signed by George Wingfield - Esmeralda. Goldfield Tonopah, Nevada 1906 Sarah Roosevelt Letters and Picture - New York 1934 Greenbrier Resort Hotel White Sulphur Springs Company (famous nuclear holocaust bunker) signed by Governor Henry Mason Mathews - West Virginia 1882 Amity Canal Reservoir and Improvement Company signed twice by Charles H. Dow (Dow Jones) - Colorado 1891 Butler Company signed by Paul Butler and Michael Butler ("Hair" Musical Creator) - Illinois 1954 Thomas Nast (American caricaturist, illustrator) Signature on Check. - New Jersey 1896 Charles Pratt signed Power of Attorney - 1888 Bob Hope handsigned photo Kentucky Mineral and Timber Company signed by Thomas Fortune Ryan and Union General Brayton Ives - New Jersey 1892 Grays Harbor Company signed by George Emerson - Washington Territory - 1890 Boston Daily Advertiser Corporation signed by Henry Cabot Lodge as President - Massachusetts 1886 Henry J. Gardner, Governor Appointment of Henry W. Usher to Captain - Massachusetts 1855 New England Telephone & Telegraph Company signed by Theodore Vail (First President of AT&T) - New York 1883 John Greenleaf Whittier Old Photo with Hand Signed Note Seeking Dividends Owed on Stock in The First Bank of the U. S. signed by William Eustis (Secretary of War for Madison) - 1812 Eastman Kodak Company signed letter by George Eastman - New York 1912 Ilion Bank Check signed by Francis E. Spinner (Treasurer of the United States during Civil War) - New York 1852 Maxfield Parrish handsigned Check issued in 1932 SINCLAIR LEWIS autograph signature and quotation - New York 1925 Jack Kent Cooke handsigned check - Inglewood, California 1974 Eddie Rickenbacker signed Check - New York 1970 Jose L. Sepulveda signed document (Owned Palos Verdes) - San Pedro, California 1866 Fullerton Land and Trust Company signed by Henry G. Wilshire ( Wilshire Blvd) and Edward R. Ameriage - Fullerton, California 1888 Pacific Land Improvement Company signed by George Fullerton - Los Angeles, California 1887 Thomas A. Edison, Inc. Rare Great Depression Scrip signed by Charles Edison issued due to Bank Closings - 1933 Sir Roderick Dhu Gold Mining Company signed by George W. Cable & McGinnis Bros. Wall Street firm - New York 1879 Comite International Olympique (International Olympic Committee ) signed by Avery Brundage - 1959 Indian Motorcycle Company (E. Paul duPont as President) - Massachusetts 1930 Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co Iuused to and signed by Jean A. Seligmann - Famous Art Dealer - 1935 Note secured by Western Union and American Telephone Shares handsigned by Thomas Nast and Thomas Nast, Jr. - 1892 Hudson & Berkshire Rail-Road Co. signed by future U. S. President Millard Fillmore as Comptroller - New York 1848 Gene Autry handsigned Letter with Colorful Vignette - Kansas 1949 Golf Signatures (25 Signatures including Sam Snead, Peter Townsend, Gene Borek, Stewart Ginn) of the 1974 Panama Open Golf hat handsigned by Sam Snead, Roberto DeVicenzo, Buck White, Chick Harbert, and others - Panama Open in 1974 William Howard Taft Signature as Secretary of War Signature - 1906 Harold Lloyd Signature - Famous Silent Movie Star Henry Cabot Lodge Signature - Panama Canal John F. Stevens - Chief Engineer Signature - Panama Canal Panama Open Ticket signed by famous golfer Sam Snead - 1952 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Authentic Hand Signature Carol Burnett Contract - New York 1959 Byrd Arctic Expedition Letter signed by Richard Byrd - Boston, Massachusettes 1927 United States Treasury War Finance Committee handsigned by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. - 1944 Hoboken Ferry Company hand signed by one of the Lehman Brothers (Emanuel Lehman) - 1897 Wagner Palace Car Company issued to William K. Vanderbilt - New York 1890 Wagner Palace Car Company issued to Louise H. Vanderbilt - New York 1888 Jacob Little signed Certificate - Original Great Bear of Wall Street - 1838 Petroleum Development Company signed 3 times by Edward L. Doheny (Famous Los Angeles Oil Pioneer & Teapot Dome Scandal) - California 1900 New York and New Jersey Ferry Company hand signed by Emanuel Lehman (Lehman Brothers) - New Jersey 1896 New York and Harlem Rail-Road Company with image of Train on Certificate signed by Original Wall Steet Bear, Jacob Little - 1851 Ahumada Lead Company - Issued to Elisabeth Congdon who was murdered (The Ghost of Duluth's Glensheen Estate) - 1926 Bank of the United States signed by Nicholas Biddle - Pennsylvania 1837 Mexican Telephone Company signed by Clarence W. Barron (Barron's Magazine Founder and Owner of Dow Jones & Co.) - New York 1891 Baring Brothers Co. signatures - Thomas Baring, John Baring and Joshua Bates - RARE Maine Central Railroad Company Agreement to purchase the Ricker Hotel Company - Maine 1911 California Fruit Union signed by Horatio P. Livermore - San Francisco, California 1886 Pacific Electric Railway Co. signed by Henry Edwards Huntington - California 1904 Poyaisian Land Grant Scam signed by Gregor Mac Gregor - Nicaragua 1827 Wagner Palace Car Company - Certificate #1 issued to W.K. Vanderbilt - New York 1888 Military Officer Commission signed by 2 U.S. Presidents -Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft - 1908 Merriam's Aviation Bureau signed by Captain F. Warren Merriam - England 1939 Blackfoot Stock Company signed by Heber Manning Wells (Utah's first Governor) - Utah, Territory 1889 New England Exploration Company (Historic Smuggler - Union Mine) - Telluride, Colorado signed by Bulkeley Wells - 1901 Clifton Forge Banking and Construction Co. signed by Edward Echols - Virginia 1891 Early Pennsylvania Land Document signed by Aaron Levy - 1792 Warner Communications Inc. ( Steven J. Ross as Chairman of the Board ) - 1980 Union Foundry and Pullman Car Wheel Works of Chicago signed by George Pullman and Marshall Field - Illinois 1887 New York Canal Fund Check signed by John Dix - 1836 Edison Storage Battery Company hand signed by Thomas Edison as President - New Jersey 1905 Edison Storage Battery Company hand signed by Thomas Edison as President - New Jersey 1901 Eastman Business College Autograph and Stamp Photo Album - Poughkeepsie, New York 1879 Yankees Player Transfer Agreement for John Pieh (Pitched in game Babe Ruth hit first major league home run) signed by Yankees' Owner Jacob Ruppert - 1916 Yankees Player Transfer Agreement 1924 - signed by Yankees' Owner Jacob Ruppert New England Telephone & Telegraph Company signed by Theodore Vail (First President of AT&T) and Moses Greeley Parker - New York 1883 Edison Manufacturing Company - Signed by Thomas A. Edison and Charles Edison - New Jersey 1924 State of Israel Ten Year Dollar Savings Bond (David Ben Gurion as Prime Minister) - Israel 1962 United Artists Theatre Circuit, Inc. signed by Jacob J. Shubert - Maryland 1957 Second Social Library (Signed by Judge Benjamin Chadbourne, Edward P. Hayman and Jno. Cushing ) - Berwick , Massachusetts (now Maine) - 1804 Historic £3,000 Bond from the English Colony of Connecticut to form new regiment for Continential Army in New York - Dated June 25, 1776 (nine days before declaration of Independence) signed by Oliver Ellsworth and Simon Wolcott Andrew Mellon signed Stock Certificate Ledger Stub - 1871 Andrews Mining and Exploring Company of Milwaukee signed by Theobald Otjen - Wisconsin 1887 Susquehanna & Lehigh Turnpike Road Stock Payment Receipt signed by Levi Hollingsworth - 1804 Pabst Brewing Company signed twice by Frederick Pabst - Wisconsin 1889 Mount Hood Railroad Company signed by Matthew S. Browning of the Browning Arms Company - Oregon / Utah 1907 Battle Creek Sanitarium signed by John Harvey Kellogg - Michigan 1928 Maxim Silent Firearms Company signed by Hiram Percy Maxim - New Jersey 1908 Remington Arms Company British agent's appointment signed by Eliphalet Remington and New York Governor, Lucius Robinson - 1877 Pennsylvania Railroad Company issued to John D. Rockefeller III - Pennsylvania 1963 FBI Letter about a Police Training Program in Havana, Cuba signed by J. Edgar Hoover - Washington, D.C. 1950 ' United New Jersey Rail Road and Canal Company signed by John Jacob Astor (Lost on Titanic) - New Jersey 1894 Brown University Certificate signed by Francis Wayland issued to Adin Ballou Underwood (Famous Civil War General) - Providence 1848 General John Dix handwritten letter regarding the new birth a grandson - 1870 State of Missouri Bond signed by Missouri Governor Sterling Price (Later a Confederate General) - Missouri 1853 Thomas A. Edison Industries hand signed Minutes of Operating Committee Meeting on October 26, 1936 Motion Picture Relief Fund Letter hand signed by Frank Lloyd, Louis B. Mayer, Marion Davies, Anna Lehr , Conrad Nagel, Ronald Coleman, Mary Pickford, Samuel Goldwyn, Fred Niblo - California 1933 Cecil B. DeMille signed Letter regarding the Federation of Radio Artists' barring him - California 1945 Long Beach Printing and Publishing Company signed by Frederick William Kellogg ( of La Jolla) - California 1923 Adams Prospecting Company of Colorado signed by W. B. Dickerman, cofounder of Dominick & Dominick - 1880 Rice Oil Company signed by Con Artist George Graham Rice 1917 Revolutionary War Promissory Note signed by General Jedediah Huntington - Connecticut 1781 David Buick Carburetor Corporation hand signed by David Dunbar Buick (Buick Car was named after him) - Delaware 1921 Standard Oil Trust (low serial number #79) signed by John. D. Rockefeller, Henry M. Flagler and Jabez Abel Bostwick (4 times) 1882 Original Photograph of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt by Gurney Pullman Southern Car Company signed twice by George Pullman - 1876 Roxy Theatres Corporation hand signed by Samuel L. Rothafel, aka "Roxy" - 1926 Blue Ridge Railroad Company - Guaranteed by the State of South Carolina and signed by Henry Clews -1869 Pullman's Palace Car Company signed by George Mortimer Pullman - Illinois 1871 Hammond Clock Company Bond handsigned by Laurens Hammond ( Hammond Organ Inventor) - Delaware 1936 Bank of Pensacola signed by Governor, John Henry Eaton - Territory of Florida 1835 British America Corporation 1901 - London, England signed by James Whitaker Wright (committed suicide in courtroom after fraud conviction) W. S. George Pottery Company ( Signed by William Shaw George as president ) - Ohio 1916 State of New York Comptroller's Office issued to Rufus H. King - New York 1853 Geary Street Park and Ocean Railroad Company signed by Charles F. Crocker - San Francisco, California 1891 Verville Aircraft Company signed by Alfred V. Verville - Delaware 1930 State of Nevada Bond signed by Nevada's First Governor, Henry Goode Blasdel - 1865 City of Savannah Arrest Warrant signed by Mayor, John J. McDonough - Savannah, Georgia 1892 Military Officer Commission signed by President, Theodore Roosevelt and General Fred C. Ainsworth - 1907 Wilt Chamberlain Autographed Los Angeles Lakers Jersey - Professionally Framed
Rare and Scarce Stocks / Bonds Republic of Chili - ( RARE Specimen Error Chili vs Chile) - 1896 Honduras Government Ten per Cent. Railway Loan of 1867 - Honduras American Academy of Dramatic Arts signed by founder Franklin Haven Sargent - New York 1909 American Bicycle Company Stock Certificate 1902 - New Jersey American Board of Commissions for Foreign Missions - 1856 American Broadcasting Company - Mark Woods as company's first president American Cereal Company ( Became Quaker Oats in 1901 ) RARE - 1890's Ashley's Bromine and Arsenic Spring Company - Bristol, Tennessee 1884 Atlantic City Casino and Steamboat Company - New Jersey 1891 Audubon Society 1887 Bank of Amsterdam - New York, 1865 Bartlett Fire - Extinguishing Company - Washington D.C. 1886 Bethlehem Steel Corporation - Old Cannon Vignette 1917 Brush Electric Light & Power Company - RARE Issued Certificate - Early G.E. Company - Montana, Territory 1884 Burgess Battery Company signed by Founder Dr. Burgess 1920 Cape May & Millville Rail Road Company 1871 Chicago Daily News, Inc. (Frank Knox as President) - Illinois 1935 Cincinnati and Avondale Turnpike Company - Ohio 1882 City Railway Company of Pasadena, California 1889 Coca - Cola Company Specimen Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Los Angeles - California Columbia Pleasure Club of Fox Lake- Chicago, Illinois 1886 Compagnie Francaise & Americaine De San Francisco - Early California Gold Rush Certificate 1850 Consolidated Concessions Company - Panama Pacific International Exposition California 1915 Cotton Picker Company - Maine 1906 Cove Land & Mining Company - Detroit, Michigan 1874 Vine Company of Pennsylvania (First winery in North America) - Pennsylvania , 1811 East Duluth Company - Minnesota 1930 Eastman Kodak International Capital Company High Denomination $70,000,000 Convertible Bond Edison Kinetophone Company certificate #2 (Early sound for motion pictures) - New Jersey 1913 Edison Phongraphs, Ltd. - New Jersey 1917 Eisenhower and Nixon Certificate of Appreciation to James Cagney 1956 Elblight Company of America ( Made Early Electric Christmas Lights) - New York 1902 Electric Boat Company 1910 ( Early General Dynamics ) - Submarine Vignette Electric Steering Company 1889 - Steamer Ship Vignette Elmira and Williamsport Rail Road Company 1860 EARLY CONVERTIBLE BOND Emerson's Bromo - Seltzer ( Famous Bromo Selzer Building Vignette) - Baltimore, Maryland 1930 Eureka Mower Company - Towanda, Bradford County Pennsylvania 1882 Excelsior Watch Company - New York 1885 F.I.A.T Motor Cab Company, Limited - 1909 Farmers and Mechanics Bank of Indiana 1817 - First Bank in Indiana signed by John Paul Fauquier White Sulphur Spring Company - Warrenton , Virginia 1879 First National Bank of Chicago 1864 - signed by founder - Union Soldier Vignette First National Bank of Seattle ( Became Seafirst Bank, now Bank of America) - Territory of Washington, 1884 First National Bank of the City of Brooklyn - 1865 ( Became Chase Manhattan Bank ) Forty Wall Street Corporation (Originally Manhattan Company Building now called The Trump Building) - November 1, 1929 - New York Fourth of July Mining and Milling Company - Montana, Territory 1890 Franklin Fire Insurance Company Authentic Stock Certificate 1839 - Ben Franklin & Early Fire Apparatus Picture Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania signed by William Sellers as President - 1865 Frederick Bicycle Club with Vignette of Old Bicycle - Frederick, Maryland 1893 General Motors Corporation (Original Equity Bonus Plan) - Delaware 1920 German Nazi Uncancelled WWII Bond - 1938 Globe Telephone Company 1884 - Famous ATT Patent Fight Goodyear's Metallic Rubber Shoe Company - 1884 ( Early U.S. Rubber Company) Hamilton Bank Note Company - New York 1883 ( Famous Bank Note Printer ) Hoboken Land Association 1852 - RARE HollywoodLand Company - California 1911 Huntington Hotel Company - 1936 ( Now Ritz-Carlton, Huntington Hotel & Spa ) Hutchinson Sugar Plantation Company - Honolulu, Hawaii Territory 1909 Japan - Flora Mines and Tunnel Company - Telluride, Colorado 1903 JARDIN ZOOLOGICO E D'ACCLIMACAO EM PORTUGAL S.A. Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc. $1000 Bond - Indiana 1945 Keren Kayemeth Leisrael Limited - Israel 1932 Lake Copper Company ( Rare uncancelled signed by William A. Paine) - Michigan 1915 Lampasas River Bridge Company of Belton, Bell County Texas - 1876 Lawrenceburgh & Indianapolis Rail-Road Company 1830's Lennen & Newell, Inc. ( Famous National Adverstiing Agency ) - New York 1952 Lone Star Cotton Picking Machine Company - Illinois 1892 Long Beach Bath House and Amusement Company ( Nu Pike ) signed by Samuel Knight Rindge ( Malibu Family Founders) - California 1942 Maryland Mining Company - Eckhart, Allegany County, Maryland 1841 Medical Hall of Transylvania University Stock Certificate - Lexington, Kentucky 1827 Meigs Elevated Railway Co. - Massachusetts 1890 Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railway Company - Chicago "L" 1898 Middleton & Tonge Cotton Mill Company, Ltd. 1871 Miles Cash Register Company 1889 - Rare Cash Register Vignette New England and Lake Superior Copper and Silver Mining Company - Detroit, Michigan 1847 New England Steam Heating Co. - Massachusetts 1866 New York and Pacific Steamship Company - New York 1890s New York Central Railroad Company Uncancelled Gold Bond - New York 1913 New York Law Institute 1850 Ocean City Bridge Company - Berlin, Maryland 1897 Office Union Gold Pen Manufacturing Company - Washington, DC Est. 1860's Panama Rail Road Co. ( Imprinted Revenue Stamp) 1872 Pennsylvania Horticultural Society - Pennsylvania 1867 Pennsylvania Soap Company - Lancaster, Pennsylvania 1903 Pennsylvania Wood Preserving Company - 1869 Philadelphia & West Chester Turnpike Road Co. - Conostoga Wagon Vignette 1864 Pneumatic Gun Carriage and Power Company 1897 - West Virginia Pontiac Spring & Wagon Works (Made 1st Pontiac Car - Early GM Company) - Pontiac, Michigan 1907 Prall Railway Signal and Telegraph Co. - 1876 New York Proprietors of Union School - 1843 New Haven, Connecticut - Issued to Roger Sherman Prospect Basin Mining Company 1891 - Telluride, Colorado Quebec Savings Bond - $5,000 Specimen - Quebec, Canada 1988 Radio Corporation of America - RCA - Nipper the Dog in Vignette - 1967 Radio Corporation of America 1933 - SPECIMEN -- David Sarnoff as President Rapid Motor Vehicle Company - Early General Motors (GMC Trucks) - Detroit, Michigan 1905 RARE Founders shares from the Canal Interoceanique de Panama (Panama Canal) - 1880 Rebuilding Tompkins Market -Public Stock of the City of New York - 1858 Reno Stock Brokerage Company ( Certificate #1 ) - Nevada 1906 Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey BLUE - 1969 Rochester, Syracuse and Eastern Railroad Company - New York 1900 Roosevelt Field, Inc. ( Airfield where Charles Lindbergh took off on his historic Trans-Atlantic flight) - New York 1932 Saint Paul & Duluth Railroad Company - Trustee Certificate from Jay Cooke & Co. - Minnesota 1878 San Francisco Land Association 1858 RARE Savings Bank of Griffin - Griffin is the Birthplace of Doc Holliday (Great Picture on Certificate) , Georgia 1895 Sea Haven Improvement Company of New Jersey, 1881 Shenandoah Valley Railroad Company - Virginia & West Virginia 1879 Sinepuxent Beach Company (Atlantic Hotel Builder) - Ocean City, Maryland 1892 South Side Elevated Railroad Company (Chicago "L" ) - Chicago, Illinois Southern Aid and Insurance Company (First Black Owned Insurance Co. in U.S.) 1899 - Richmond, Virginia Southern Life Insurance and Trust Company of Florida Territory 1839 signed by Governor Southern Telegraph Company 1882 Spenazuma Gold Mining and Milling (Scam) - RARE SPECIMEN - New York State Bank of South Carolina (Pre Civil War) - 1856 State of Mississippi $1,000 Bond 1833 - Infamous State Default Bond Stockton & Tuolumne County Railroad Company (aka "Woman's Road") - California 1898 Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI with John Malone at President) - Delaware 1968 Thomas B. Jeffery Company of California (Became Nash Motor Car Company) signed by Charles T. Jeffery - 1910 Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (Ted Turner as President) - Georgia Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (Ted Turner as President) - Georgia Union Dairymen's Association - 1883 - RARE Watermark 1776 - 1876 Centennial Union Railroad Safety Gate Company - New York 1880's United States and European Propelling Car Company - New Orleans, Louisiana 1872 United States Steel Corporation 1901 issued to Andrew Carnegie $100,000 Bond Upper Potomac Steamboat Company - City of Washington DC - 1875 Virginia Agricultural & Mechanical Society - Virginia 1888 Washington Fire Company Stock Association - 1867 Western Jamaica Connecting Railway - Jamaica 1845 Wings Over San Antonio, Inc. 1936 Motion Picture Woman's Land Syndicate - Profit Sharing Investment Bond - Waukegan, Illinois 1893 Yosemite National Park Electric Power Company - California 1904 Pillsbury Mills, Inc. - New York 1952 Confederate Texas Railroad - Tap and Brazoria Railway Company - Texas 1861 Jewel Tea Company, Inc - New York Cuba Railroad Company $1000 Gold Bond - 1902 Bank of North-America - Providence, Rhode Island - 1852 Philatelic Publishing Company Signed by Famous Collector and Publisher, C. H. Mekeel - St. Louis, Missouri 1889 Tombstone Consolidated Mines Company - Arizona 1907 Gagnier - Griffin Suspended Railway Bridge Company - Chicago, Illinois 1894 St. Louis Browns American League Base Ball Company (Became Baltimore Orioles) - Missouri 1911 United States Fonetic Company - Illinois 1887 Enron Corp. - RARE Pre Crooked "E" Logo with Ken Lay as Chairman - 1993 Atlantic and Pacific Steamship Company signed by Joseph. P. Grace of W. R. Grace and Co. - Maine 1913 Kelly Girl Services, Inc. (William Kelly as President) - Delaware Scovill Manufacturing Company issued on November 22, 1963 (Kennedy's Assassination) - Connecticut Planet Hollywood SPECIMEN with Demi Moore, Bruce Willis, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone Wawona Hotel Company of Yosemite National Park (Rare) - California 1904 Southern Pacific Golden Gate Company - San Francisco , California 1933 Marine National Bank (Bank's failure left Ulysses S. Grant Penniless) - New York 1865 American Tropical Planting Company Plantation Bond (Colon, Honduras) - Delaware 1899 Stock Market Crash Certificate issued on October 29, 1929 Black Tuesday - Stone & Webster, Incorporated Minneapolis, St. Paul, Rochester and Dubuque Electric Traction ( Dan Patch Air Line) - 1913 Chanin Building signed by Irwin Chanin - New York 1945 World War Cyclorama, Inc. (Pantheon de la Guerre)- Delaware 1931 Echo Telephone Company - West Virginia 1891 Co-operative Dress Association signed by Kate Field - New York 1881 Flint Steel River Mining Company - Mass City, Ontonagon Co., Michigan, 1865 Rickenbacker Motor Car Company (Eddie Rickenbacker) - 1926 Seward Peninsula Mining Company - Alaska 1905 Northern Bank Limited - Belfast, Ireland 1929 Arizona Gazette Company ( Now Arizona Republic) issued to B. M. Goldwater - Arizona 1926 Bodie and Benton Railway and Commercial Company signed by Henry Marvin Yerington (Bodie is now a Ghost Town), California 1886 Western Lithographic Stone Company - Colorado 1908 Columbian Liberty Bell at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition - United States of Freedom - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1895 Memphis, Selma, and Brunswick Rail Road - Tennessee 1882 Carte Blanche Credit Card Corporation - Delaware 1968 United States Radium Company (Famous Radium Girls Lawsuit) - 1926 Radium Luminous Material Corporation signed by founder George Willis - 1919 Utica Steam Engine Co. - New York 1871 Edison Portland Cement Company issued to Thomas A. Edison - 1906 Phillips Academy Grand Stand Company - Massachusetts 1889 W.H. Ingham and Company (Speculative Syndicate ) - New York 1888 Franco-Texan Land Company - Texas 1876 Wilmington and Philadelphia Turnpike Company - Delaware 1814 Hammond Clock Company with Laurens Hammond as President - Delaware 1928 Seattle Rainier Baseball Club, Inc signed by Emil Sick - Washington 1939 Empire Animal Power Manufacturing Co. - New York 1870's American Telephone & Telegraph ( Specimen Certificate) - New York 1940's Gibraltar & Flat Rock Company - Detroit, Michigan 1840 Memphis American Basketball Association (Pre Memphis Grizzlies) - Tennessee 1972 Anaheim Stadium - Los Angeles Rams and California Angels Logos - RARE - 1990 Harrah's (largest gaming company in the world) - Nevada 1978 Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation - Delaware 1983 Globe Ticket Company - Pennsylvania 1951 Frederick's of Hollywood, Inc. - Delaware 1989 Atlas Powder Company Specimen Proof - Delaware 1913 Reo Motor Car Company (RARE Specimen Proof Certificate ) - Michigan 1925 General Vehicle Company - New York 1913 Trenton Institute - New Jersey 1865 Historical Register Publishing Company - New Jersey 1894 Trenton Institute - New Jersey 1866 College Homestead Association - Berkeley, California 1865 Westcolang Lake and Delaware River Park (Hunting Dog with Duck in Mouth) - Pennsylvania 1887 Ford Motor Company Production File Archive for Stock Certificate Design - 1951 Aero-Marine Locomotive - California 1919 Packard Motor Car Company Gold Bond - Michigan 1921 General Motors Acceptance Corporation - New York Standard Oil Company of California (Became Chevron ) - California 1946 Sierra Madre Land & Lumber Company - Connecticut 1907 Remington Arms Company, Inc. Gold Bond - Delaware 1922 Natural Bridge Forest Company - Virginia 1888 Charles River Embankment Company - Massachusetts 1890 H&R Block Inc. Original Production File with Henry R. Bloch as President - Missouri 1976 - 1978 Wendy's International, Inc. (Original IPO Certificate) R. David Thomas as Chairman - Ohio 1977 Robert Mondavi Wine (RARE IPO Specimen Certificate) No Longer Public - California 1993 Campaign Against Tuberculosis Christmas Seal Bond - 1955 Algonquin Club - Boston, Massachusetts 1888 New York Hippodrome (Original Construction Bond) - New York 1905 Standard Cattle Company - Territory of Wyoming 1888 Northwestern Bell Telephone Company (Now Qwest) - Iowa 1921 Brooklyn Academy of Music - New York 1921 Board of Trade of the City of Chicago (Heating Oil Demand Certificate ) - Illinois 1982 York and Gettysburg Turnpike - Pennsylvania 1821 Los Angeles Electric Railway Company signed by Moses Sherman was the developer of Sherman Oaks - California 1892 Ohio Edison Electric Installation Company - Incorporated in Kentucky 1883 Georgia Lumber Company - Montgomery County, Georgia incorporated in Portland, Maine 1835 Revenue Extension Silver Mining Company of Nevada - 1866 Digital Equipment Corporation - Massachusetts 1950-1960's Boston Rotisserie Chicken - Delaware 1997 Hood Fire Arms Company - Norwich, Connecticut 1875 Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. - Delaware 1929 National Limestone Company - Martinsburg, West Virginia 1910 Marhsall Field & Company Gold Bond - Illinois 1925 New York Dock Company - New York 1901 KPMG Consulting, Inc (Now BearingPoint Inc.) - Delaware Carmack Gold and Copper Mining Co. signed by George Carmack (Started Klondike Gold Rush) - Washington 1903 Chicago Law Institute - Illinois 1885 Insull Utility Investments 1930 - Famous Depression Fraud Saint Helena Whale Fishery Company - (Island of Saint Helena) 1837 California Petroleum Corporation - (Acquired by Texaco in 1928) - 1926 Standard Oil Company - Ohio 1925 Oriental Club of the City of New York signed by Edward J. Shandley (Boss Tweed Collaborator) - New York 1873 Chicago Mercantile Exchange Holdings Inc. (CME GROUP INC ) - Low Serial # Drawbaugh Telephone & Telegraph Company - New York 1895 Philadelphia Ferry Company signed by Richard F. Loper - Pennsylvania 1850 Smith, Gray & Company (Famous New York Building) - New York 1894 National Linseed Oil- Chicago, Illinois 1896 American Steel Casting Company - Jersey City, New Jersey 1890's Procter & Gamble Company - Moon and Stars Vignette Channel Tubular Railway 1892 - Early English Channel Tunnel Company Triumph Cycle Company signed by co founder Siegfried Bettmann (Became Triumph Motor Company ) - England 1898 Hawaiian Telegraph and Telephone Co. - Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii 1909 Pets.com, Inc. - Delaware Boston & New York Chickasaw Land Company (Uncancelled) - Boston, Massachusetts 1836 Tuolumne County Water Company (Early California Mining Camp Vignette) - 1862 Redondo Land Company (Redondo Beach ) - California 1891 Compagnie Des Installations Maritimes De Bruges (Home of "In Bruges", The Movie with Colin Farrell) 1904 - Most Beautiful Certificate World's Columbian Exposition Stock Certificate (Blue) signed by H. N. Higinbotham - Illinois 1893 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Revenue Bond - Ohio 1993 Shawangunk Gold and Silver Mining Company signed twice by Eben Smith - Reese River, Nevada Territory 1864 Berkeley Athletic Association (Berkeley School of New York) - New York 1891 Newport Insurance Company - Newport, Rhode Island 1802 Shaarai Berocho Synagogue (138 East 50th Street) - New York 1893 Southern Mausoleum Corporation - Tampa, Florida 1931 Mount Sinai Memorial Park - New York 1934 Mutual Telephone Company - Honolulu, Hawaii Islands - 1889 California Cattle & Land Co. - California 1903 EARLY Hawaiian Bell Telephone Company - Honolulu, Kingdom of Hawaii 1881 Elevator Safety Controller Company ( Old Elevator Vignette) - Pennyslvania 1898 E.S. Randall Steamboat & Excursion Company (Potomac River Steamer) - Washington DC 1900 Popp Compressed Air and Electric Power Company signed by Elisa Dyer III - New York 1888 Charlottesville and University Gas Light Company - Virginia 1861 Little Falls Aqueduct Association - New York 1837 Hutchins House Company signed by William J. Hutchins - Houston, Texas 1877 West Cape May Improvement Company with vignette of the Light of Asia (Jumbo the Elephant) - New Jersey 1884 New Orleans Lightering & Wrecking Company (Post Civil War Marine Salvage Company) - Louisiana 1867 American Salvage Company - Organized just after Lusitania Sinking - New York 1918 Global Marine, Inc. ( Made the famous Hughes Glomar Explorer for the CIA) Long Island Land Company (Owned property in Jamaica, Queens County, Long Island, New York) signed by George W. Ballou - Boston, Massachusetts 1874 Universal Exposition - Louisiana Purchase Exposition St. Louis 1904 Countrywide Mortgage Obligations, Inc. (Became Countrywide Financial Corp bailed out by Bank of America) - 1986 Madison Square Garden Corporation - New York 1925 Lockheed Aircraft Corporation - California Confederate States of America 1862 (Low Certificate #59) - George Washington Vignette - Ball #48 Pennsylvania Horseless Carraige Manufacturing Company - 1908 Packard Motor Car Company issued on October 29, 1929 - Black Tuesday Stock Market Crash National Stock Yards Co. of Philadelphia - Pennsylvania 1876 Edison Phonograph Distributing Company signed by Charles Edison - New Jersey 1925 Standard Oil Company - Ohio 1870 Yellowstone National Park Transportation Company 1890's - Old Faithful Vignette New York Telephone Company (Early operator holding telephone lines vignette ) - New York 1922 George N. Pierce Company (RARE) Pierce-Arrow Car Company - New York 1908 New York Pier and Warehouse Co. - New York 1869 Atlas Powder Company (Rare Specimen Proof) - Delaware 1920's Maine & New Hampshire GRANITE Co. - Maine 1891 Pan American Expostion Company 1901 - Signed by John Milburn (Pres McKinley Died in Milburn's home) International Mercantile Marine Company RARE Specimen Bond ( White Star Titanic Ship Owners) 1902 Jacob Little signed Certificate - Original Great Bear of Wall Street - 1838 Playboy Enterprises, Inc. with Hugh M. Hefner as Chairman (Famous Willy Rey Nude Vignette) - Delaware 1982 Apple Computer, Inc. with John Sculley as CEO - California 1988 Netscape with Jim Barksdale as President ( Acquired by AOL ) Occidental Copper Mining Co. - Soladad District, Los Angeles, California - 1863 Moth-Proof Chest Company - Pennsylvania 1872 Moth-Proof Chest Company - Pennsylvania 1872 New York Produce Exchange Safe Deposit and Storage Company - New York 1937 California Fruit Union signed by Horatio P. Livermore - San Francisco, California 1886 Bank of Virginia - Richmond, Virginia 1844 Moody's Investors Service (Topless allegorical women in vignette) RARE - New Jersey 1929 Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. - Delaware National Biscuit Company ( Nabisco ) - Jersey City, New Jersey 1900 Hercules Powder Company - RARE Specimen Proof - Delaware 1915 SCARCE Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Chairman/CEO on certificate was Henry M. Paulson who became Treasury Secretary in 2006 Universal Pictures Company, Inc. (Nate Blumberg as President) - Delaware 1938 United States Petroleum Company - Venango County, Pennsylvania - Incorporated in New York 1866 Babcock & Wilcox Limited - England 1936 Babcock & Wilcox Limited - England 1936 Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey - Delaware 1969 Connecticut Telephone Company (Specimen) - New Haven, Connecticut 1880's Bear Stearns Companies Inc. ( Ace Greenberg as Chairman) - Delaware 1986 Edison Phonograph Distributing Company - New Jersey 1920's Yellowstone Park Association - Minnesota 1891 Rosedale Cemetery Association - Linden, New Jersey 1906 Lion Country Safari, Inc. - Delaware Carnegie Trust Company Letter of Credit - New York, 1909 Public Debt of the Late Republic of Texas issued to James R. Pace - 1851 State Line Gold Mining Company No.4 - Esmeralda County, Nevada - New York 1881 General Artificial Silk Company (Owned patents to Rayon) - Delaware 1902 Colony of Connecticut Bond - New London 1734 Novelty Air Ship Company - RARE (Professor Campbell's Airship was lost at Sea during Exhibition Flight) - New Jersey, 1888 Vic Tanny Enterprises, Inc. - Delaware 1961 Maxim Silent Firearms Company signed by Hiram Percy Maxim - New Jersey 1908 Tattersall's (of Chicago) Limited (auctioneer of race horses ) - Chicago 1891 Duesenberg Automobile & Motors Company, Inc. Stock Certificate - 1924 Columbia and Lancaster Telegraph Company - Pennsylvania 1854 Poplar Bluff Lumber Company - Missouri 1895 Race Betterment Journal Publishing Co. - South Dakota 1912 Union Cattle Company signed by Thomas Sturgis as President -Wyoming Territory 1886 The National Base Ball Club of Washington D.C. - Incorporated in Virginia - 1890's Green Giant Company (Jolly Green Giant Vignette) - Delaware 1978 American Telegraph-Typewriter Company signed by George A. Cardwell - Delaware 1910 Hermosa Beach Investment Company - California 1915 Washington Purified Milk and Cream Company - West Virginia 1890's Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. - 1937 ( Early TWA Airlines ) Campobello Island Company - New Brunswick, Canada 1895 ' Wells Fargo Mining Company - Virginia District, Story County, Nevada 1879 American Burlesque Association, Inc. signed by Gus Hill - New York 1916 Stardust Hotel - Las Vegas, Nevada 1954 Green Bay Packers, Inc. - 1997 ' E. Remington & Sons (Remington Arms Company ) - Ilion, New York - 1882 Crazy Eddie, Inc. ( Famous electronics chain store FRAUD ) - 1986 Bond of the County of San Francisco (Gold Rush Era) - California 1852 New York Guano Company (Owned Swan Islands ) - 1863 American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Morning Star 1884 Radioactive Products, Inc. (Hoping to capitalize on the work of the Manhattan Project) - Michigan 1949 Sibbald Patent Steam Boiler Association of the United States - Philadelphia, Pennsylvannia 1857 City of San Francisco - Panama-Pacific Exposition (World's Fair) $1000 Bond. San Francisco, CA. 1912 Stockton Hotel and Improvement Co. of Cape May, N.J. (Signed by Civil War General William J. Sewell ) - 1872 Thew Automatic Shovel Co. ( Used in building Panama Canal) - Lorain, Ohio 1916 Toy Bank Co. (Made Toy Bank Cash Register) - Alexandria, Virginia 1900 Toy Bank Co. (Made Toy Bank Cash Register) - Alexandria, Virginia 1900 Bond of the City and County of San Francisco (Civil War Era) - California 1863 General Motors Corporation - (Uncancelled - Last Certificate issued before Bankruptcy)
Documents and Unique Items Los Angeles Board of Trade and Produce Exchange Building - California 1889 Old R.B. Grainger Whiskey - Louisville, Kentucky 1906 Registered Michigan Pharmacist Certificate - 1913 Fédération Aéronautique Internationale British Empire Avaitors Certificate - 1918 Harvard Commencement Graduation Program dated August 28, 1833 United States Amateur Air Pilots Association and the Sportsman Pilot Association of America archive dated from 1930 to 1934 Harvard College Tuition $400 Bond for Benjamin Barnard Appleton - 1831 Specimen Tax Seals from South America Speciman Credit Cards - Group of 9 General Electric Company Warranty - Early Electric Refrigerator - 1932 Croton Aqueduct (Croton Dam) signed by Samuel Farwell - New York 1839 Peerless Limousine 1909 Worcester North Agricultural Society - Massachusetts 1853 National Association of Wool Manufacturers - Massachusetts 1880 Treasury Department Internal Revenue Opium Order Form dated 1943 Montreal Telegraph Company - 1864 Stock Purchase Document - Philadelphia 1793 Potomack Company (founded by George Washington ) Stock Indenture - Fairfax County, Virginia 1791 Authentic Hollywood Prop Movie Money 10 Piece Package Exclusive Scripophily Print called "Bare Market" Early Tobacco Tax Certificate 1875 - 1885 - Cigar Box in Vignette National Wool Growers Association Certificate of Membership 1907 National Rifle Association Membership Certificate 1949 Special Orders Letter 1865 - New Orleans SCHINE Chain Theatres Stock 1928 - Famous Surpreme Court Anti Trust Decision Official Bulletin of the Screen Actors Guild 1938 Fancy Wall Street Silk Stock Certificate Tie - Plus 5 matching certificates on the tie United States Silver Fox Farms 1923 Singer Sewing Machine Manufacturing Company Letter - 1868 Whitney's Point and Glen Aubrey Telephone Company 1904 - New York Massachusetts Agricultural College Alumni Club of Massachusetts 1891 ( University of Massachusetts ) Sears Roebuck and Company Certificate of Guaranty Apollo XI Original Pinback Button - America Salutes First Men on the Moon 1969 Apollo XI July 1969 Button and Ribbon Apollo VIII - Man's first flight around the moon 1968 Actors Fund of America 1909 - Issued to Actress Blanche Walsh Free Banks, Certificate of Delivery Merchant's Exchange - Rochester, New York 1845 Seaman's Certificate from United States Department of Commerce - 1940 Register from St. James Hotel, Springfield, Ohio - 1879 Register from New Shaw House - Sheffield, Pennsylvania 1915 Register from the Hotel Virginia - Quincy, Illinois 1928 Register from the Summit House, Athol, Massachusetts - 1874 Hotel Register from Tacoma Inn - Lewiston, Maine 1925 Iraq Ba'ath Party Membership Certificate with Saddam Hussein Vignette Modern Woodmen of America 1920's - Jack Nicholson Played Woodmen Actuary in About Schmidt Stonington Line - Steamer C. Vanderbilt - 1853 Mount Hope and Lumberland Turnpike Road Company 1823 - Goshen, New York Quincy Turn-Verein - Quincy, Illinois 1885 P.T. Barnum's Rare Tom Thumb signed Photo with Wife, Commodore Nutt and Minnie Warren Hartford Orphan Asylum 1854 Western New York Barbers Picnic-1907 Civil War Envelope Honor to the Memory of Benjamin Franklin - Boston 1854 Apollo Achievement Award commemorating Man's landing on the Moon - Washington D.C. 1969 Victoria Satin Lined Casket- Wallingford Connecticut Boston Young Mens Christian Association (YMCA) - Boston, Mass. 1852 Judgements of Henry Herberger or Harper from 1795 to 1803 - Philadelphia 1803 Board of Christian Education of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - Pennsylvania American Racing Pigeon Union - 1944 Ladies Commonwealth Union No. 1, New York 1900 Amalgamated Painters and Decorators of New York -1900 Widows and Orphans Society - New York 1905 David McSwain assignment of property to Samuel Wallis - Province of Pennsylvania 1766 Pet Rock Obedience Training Certificate - 1976 National Roosevelt League - Illinois 1904 Chicago Live Stock Exchange Membership Certificate - 1897 Michigan Bell - General Health Course for Women of the Bell System - 1931 Company of the Imperial Railway of Ethiopia (Compagnie Imperiale des Chemins de Fer Ethiopiens) - 1899 Certificate of Proficiency in Typewriting - Toronto, Canada 1924 Free Buick Certificate - 1929 International Gordon Bennett Race - Chicago 1912 British Empire Aviator's Certificate issued to Richard Crofts Powell - England 1913 Parsons Taylor House - Easton, Pennsylvania New York Stock Exchange Telephone Department Ticket - 1907 Bell Telephone Laboratories - Specimen Certificate Original Patent for Raising and Lowering Tubes in Oil Wells - 1878 Washington National Monument Society 1849 Coming Men of America - Oak Park, Illinois 1899 Governor Election Summary - Alford, Massachusetts 1812 Holstein Friesian Association of America 1924 U.S. Treasury Department Prescription for Whiskey during Roaring 20's Prohibition - 1926 U.S. Patent by Eugene P. Batzel of Rotary Valve Mechanism for Gas-Engines - United States 1913 Ringling Bros. Show Ticket - 50th Anniversary Celebration - Baraboo, Wisconsin 1933 National Horse Show First Prize Ribbon, Del Mar, Californa 1961 Centre Turnpike Road - Pennsylvania, 1812 National Monument to the Forefathers - Plymouth, Massachusetts 1865 National Times Savings Bank 1884 - Father Time Vignette Bell Aircraft Corporation B-29 Airplane Program Report (RARE) - Georgia 1943 Jack B. Backer, Inc.(Market makers in investment diamonds) - New York Skyjacking Terrorism Hostage Wire Photos used in the San Francisco Examiner newspaper - 1980s Percheron Society of America - Illinois 1921 Old Original Mining Photograph Detection and Recognition of Fraudulent Securities by American Banknote Company Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition Hankerchief - Alaska 1909 Democratic National Convention Specimen Pass - San Francisco, California 1984 United States of America Department of the Interior (Bureau of Pensions) - Washington, D.C. 1897 Winston Churchill & Dwight Eisenhower Authentic Wire Photo - 1959 Official Ballot McLean County (Teddy Roosevelt) - Illinois, 1904 License of Hawker, Peddler, or Itinerant Auctioneer signed by Governor George F. Fort - New Jersey 1852 Phillips Academy Grand Stand Company - Andover, Massachusetts 1889 Barbara Streisand & Groucho Marx Original William Randolph Hearst Newspaper Wire Photo - 1974 National Geographic Magazine Specimen Cover with Hologram - Washington, D.C. 1984 Women's Monumental Fund - Kentucky 1901 Early Helicopter Patent Design hand drawn in pencil by Inventor Randolph Fordham Hall - 1923 Chicago Band Engraved Album Cover - 1973 Stagecoach Waybill from Williamsport to Baskinsville - Pennsylvania, 1853 Elvis Presley USA First-Day Issue Cancellation Stamps Santa Barbara State Street Photograph Card - California 1875 Illinois State Zoo and Amusement Company Stockholderer Pass New England Historic Genealogical Society signed by Samuel G. Drake - Boston 1858 Professor William Emanuel's School of Chiropody Burglar Proof Door Fastener Broadside - New York Indiana Democratic Club - Indiana 1914 Ghost Town and Calico Company with Walter Knott as President (Knott's Berry Farm) - California 1900's Poyaisian Land Grant Scam signed by Gregor Mac Gregor - Nicaragua, 1834 United States Reporting & Collecting Association - 1878 National Lincoln Monument - Illinois 1869 Original Gold Processing Procedure Directions - 1890's Old Folks Father Kemp Liberty Hall Concert Broadside - Newark, New Jersey 1860 Pep Boys (Manny, Moe & Jack ) Rare Production File - Pennsylvania Tuberculosis Crusade of the Double-Barred Cross - 1925 2007 Scripophily.com Calendar Stock Certificate Cobweb Club - Columbus, Ohio 1928 Freckles Sheet Music - New York 1919 United States Patent Office - Animal Power Patent - Washington, D.C. 1868 Kmart Corporation Unique Production File with Artwork - Michigan 1977 American Revolution Bicentennial 1776 - 1976 New York Stock Exchange Membership Certificate - New York Planters Fertilizer & Oil Company - South Carolina 1918 City of Boston, Civil War - Massachusetts 1861 George Washington Portrait engraved by H.B. Halls Sons, New York 2008 Scripophily.com Calendar Stock Certificate National Mazda Lamps (General Electric) - 1929 IPO on War In Vietnam (Spoof Prospectus on Vietnam War) - 1970 Cold Water Army Pledge (Temperance) - Connecticut 1840's Early California Drivers Licence - California 1914 Railroad Conductors Life Insurance Association - Ohio 1880 Congressional Country Club - Washington D.C. 1928 Catalogus Universitatis Harvardiane (Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Harvard University) - Cambridge, Ma. 1806 Spaldling's Commercial College, City of Kansas, Missouri - 1890 Shiping Invoice to Moses Brown for 58 Bundles of Hemp from St. Petersburg, Russia to Newburyport, Massachusetts - 1794 Circuit Court sentence of John Southack to hard labor for committing Insurance Fraud by Sinking Ship - 1803 George Washington Memorial - Washington, D.C. 1910 Patent for Improvement of Elevator Buckets - Washington, D.C. 1876 General Electric Patent for Automobile Steering #855,463 - Washington, D.C. 1907 Warren Insurance Company for Sloop Sally - Warren, Rhode Island 1818 City of New Orleans Guest Ribbon - 1881 AT&T Long Distance Certificate with Desert Storm Logo AT & T Gift Certificate with the Jetsons Logo Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture - 1793 Automobiles-Axles Patent #1227029 - Washington, D.C. 1917 Galloway Manure Spreader - Guaranteed to Spread - Iowa 1914 Centennial of the Homestead Law signed by Stewart Udall and Karl Landstrom - United States 1962 American Missionary Association (Marie Adlof Scholarship - Friend of the Colored Children) - New York Patent Office Mine Trap Door #569,952 - 1896 Court Appearence Document for Rioting on Naddles Island - Boston, Suffolk County 1768 Two Wheel Carriage Tax Certificate - Milton, Massachusetts 1814 Gas Poisoning Broadside from Travelers Insurance - Connecticut 1920's Chase National Bank Bond Destruction Affidavit - New York 1935 Seth Boyden Appointment as Commissioner to London World's Fair signed by Governor - New Jersey 1851 Private Carriage License (One Seat Carriage for One Horse) - Baltimore, Maryland 1880 Rosebud Indian Mission - Dakota 1888 Dominion of Canada Patent for Improvements in Knitting Machine Needles- 1886 Boy's Town - Nebraska 1960 American Rocket Society signed by Herbert R. J. Grosch and A.C. Slade - New York 1951 William Cowper's 1788 poem, "The Morning Dream" [from his Slavery Poems.] Bank of North America Protest Promissory Note signed by James Latimer, Benjamin Wilson and Peter Lohra - Philadelphia 1811 "The Pacific" Newspaper regarding Volcano Eruption of Mauna Loa in Kilauea, Hawaii - Honolulu 1899 American Defense Society - New York 1918 Jesse Lee Manuscript Ledger with lots of signatures - Philadelphia 1853 - 1876 Armstrong & Company Investment Securities Letter regarding Crescent Aircraft and Airvia - New York 1929 Daily Mirror Sunday Mirror signed by Financial Editor, Paul Williams - New York 1932 DeWolfe - Stewart & Co. Investment Letter (2 months before crash) - New York - August 1929 American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions - Boston 1856 Liberty War Loan Club Membership Broadside - Stamford, Connecticut 1916 Recording Devices Company (Name change from Dayton Adding Machine and Time Lock Company) - Dayton, Ohio 1918 Commonwealth of Virginia 10 Page Legal Document - Loudon County, Virginia 1843 Juniata Coal Company Transfer Agreement signed by Joseph Reed Ingersoll - Cambria County, Pennsylvania 1828 Yosemite Gold and Silver Mining Company Articles of Incorporation - California 1881 New Cathedral Cemetary - Baltimore, Maryland 1946 Patent for Swamp Land - Indiana 1867 REMEMBER THE LUSITANIA (Large Broadside / Poster) - ENLIST TODAY- WWI 1915 Marine Insurance Policy for Schooner George (Insurable events include Pirates) - New Hampshire 1807 Zachary Taylor Land Grant to Kentucky Volunteer - 1849 Active Hose Company, No. 3 - Lyons, Wayne County, New York - 1906 Board of Undertakers and Embalmers - New Jersey 1916 Bear Stearns Companies Inc. ( Ace Greenberg as Chairman) - Delaware 1986 DeLorean Motor Company DMC 12 Original Window Sticker - 1982 New York Stock Exchange Stock Price Quotation Sheet (Original) - 1860 Pennsylvania Gazette Newspapder dated September 12, 1787 stamped Tontine Coffee... Pet Rock Supply Company - Original Pet Rock Certificate Republican Headquarters National Committee Ten Dollar Note - Washington, D.C. 1890 Lottery Ticket from England issued in 1795 Letter from the London Banker offering to help Governor Charles Jenkins of Georgia on Bond Offering- 1867 Boys Town Certificate signed Father Edward Flanagan - Nebraska 1944 Pan American World Airways, Inc. issued to and signed by the Rockettes Investment Group- New York 1963 Slave purchase agreement - 1843 Panama Pacific International Exposition Memorial Certificate - 1915 2009 Historic Stock Calendar - 28 Color Pages - Images include Lehman Brothers, Countrywide Mortgage, Standard Oil signed by John D. Rockefeller and Much, More! Fireman Appointment - New York City, New York - 1845 RARE - Early Handwritten Auditors Report - Roxbury, Massachusetts - 1802 Treatise on the Improvement of Canal Navigation by Steamboat Designer, Robert A. Fulton - 1796 Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police - Illinois 1953 Mine Trap Door - Department of the Interior United States Patent Office - 1907 Indenture for 2000 acres in Pennsylvania dated April 15, 1685 Albany & Schenectady Turnpike Company Stock Dividend Assignment signed by Leonard Gansevoort Jr - New York 1826 Sun Fire Office Annual Farming Stock Policy - England 1835 American Female Guardian Society & Home For The Friendless - New York 1857 Passport for Jane L. Underwood ( wife of Civil War General, Adin Ballou Underwood) signed by Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State -1876 American Flag House and Betsy Ross Memorial Association - Philadelphia,Pa 1905 Petition not to grant a Tavern License - Unionville, Madison County, Ohio 1845 Buenos Aires Stock Exchange (Bolsa de Comercio de Buenos Aires) Membership Card - 1908 Spanish Slave Emancipation Document - 1796 Brooklyn Bridge 100th Anniversary Certificate (World Trade Center Buildings in the background) - New York 1983 South Seas Stock Assignment handsigned by Sir Henry Houghton, Bart. and Col. Richard Whitworth - 1730 State of Kansas County of Riley - Kansas 1898 Take Stock in Barack Obama Inauguration Certificate Memorial Certificate from the United States Centennial Exhibition - Philadelphia 1876 American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Morning Star 1866 American and Foreign Rare Coin Trade Catalog with Prices by John C. Schayer - Boston, Massachusetts 1882 Father Martin Memorial House - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania American Rights to Opera "Don Carlos" - Library of Congress - Washington D.C. 1877 National Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association ( Now American Lung Association) - Christmas Seal Certificate 1970 Boston Directory for the Year 1857 - Boston, Massachusetts Hot Air Balloon Parachute Hand Colored - Great Nassau Balloon Parachute - 1837 John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Photograph at Inauguration ( Original UPI Photograph) - New York 1961 Jessie Vokes ( Actress) - New York David Livingstone Lithograph (Dr. Livingstone, I presume? ) - New York 1872 Robert E. Lee Lithograph - New York 1865 Country Music Association Inc. - Organizational member Certificate to Capitol Records - 1960 National Photographic Association of the United States - 1874 Pinkerton's National Detective Agency - St. Paul, Minnesota 1890 Tucker Corporation Annual Report - 1947
Frauds, Scandals, Disasters and Bankruptcies Adelphia Communications Corporation - Huge Fraud with John J. Rigas as President American Bank Note Holographics, Inc (Holograph vignette) Bankrupt French Panama Canal Liquidation Bond dated 1889 - 19th Century Scandal "Boy, did I get the Wrong Number" Package - Worldcom, Global Crossing and XO Communications Burlington Industries Incorporated - Pre Bankruptcy Muhammad Ali Stock Certificate (Champburger Corporation ) - 1971 Custer Channel Wing Aircraft Company El Paso Corporation - Accused of manipulating gas supplies to drive up prices Equity Funding Corporation of America - RARE Fraud Specimen Certificate Equity Funding Scandal - Billion Dollar Bubble the Auditors Missed - Enron of the 1970's Equity Funding Bond - Huge Wall Street Scandal in the 1970s Euro Tunnel P.L.C - Euro Tunnel S.A. 1988 - aka Chunnel - Financial Fiasco Franklin Square National Bank - Long Island, New York - Major Bank Failure in 1974 Bond used in Beverly Hills Cop Movie 1984 Global Crossing, Ltd. - Bankrupt and was under Investigation by the SEC and FBI Homestore.com - Ex-Homestore CEO Gets 15-Year Sentence International Mercantile Marine 1920's - White Star Titanic Ship Owners Yale Express System, Inc. - Famous Bankruptcy Case Investors Overseas Services (I.O.S.) - Huge 1960's Fraud - Bernie Cornfeld and Robert Vesco Investors Overseas Services Management Limited - Large International Fraud Keely Motor Company 1884 ( Perpetual Motion Machine Fraud ) Kmart Corporation ( Now Sears Holdings Corporation) Lernout & Hauspie Speech Products - Company had speech impediment- SEC Files Fraud Charges Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc. - Martha Stewart as Chairman New Monte Cristo Mining Co. - Death Valley signed by infamous swindler C. C. Julian Pacific Gas and Electric - 1957 Famous California Utility Bankruptcy Pan American World Airways circa 1950's - Juan Trippe PLUS Postcard Penn Central Corporation - Pennsylvania 1978 Polaroid Corporation PSI - Programming and Systems, Inc. - Trade School FRAUD Rice Oil Company Signed by Con Artist George Graham Rice - Delaware, 1918 Rite Aid Corporation Sunbeam Corporation - Early Skyline Vignette Thiokol Chemical Corp Stock -Famous Rocket Company - Challanger Failure Trans World Airlines, Inc. 1961 - Pre American Airlines Takeover U.S. Financial - Major Fraud of the 1970's Wrigley Pharmaceutical Company Stock Certificate 1929 signed by W.W. Wrigley Alpharel, Inc. - California ( Became Altris Software ) Wrigley Tooth Paste Company, Limited - Canada 1928 Kreuger & Toll Company - Stockholm, Sweden 1930 - Famous Fraud Issued to Duluth Congdon Family and Trust Stirling Homex Corporation - Delaware 1973 Kreuger & Toll Company - Ivar Kreuger the Match King - Sweden 1930 New York City Payroll approved and signed by William "Boss" Tweed during Civil War - 1863 Maxwell Communication Corporation, PLC ( Famous Fraud founded by Robert Maxwell) - UK Lawrence -Townley Estate of England (Fraud) - Washington DC 1869 Cannon Group, Inc. - ( Famous Hollywood Scandal) Kreuger & Toll Company (Sinking Fund Gold Debenture) - Famous Scam - New York 1936 Panama Canal Bond with coupons dated 1884 - Ferdinand de Lesseps British South Africa Company dated October 24, 1929 - First Day of Market Crash (Black Thursday) - South Africa Panama Canal Stock dated 1880 - Ferdinand de Lesseps Spenazuma Gold Mining and Milling (Scam) - RARE SPECIMEN - New York Enron Corp. - RARE Pre Crooked "E" Logo with Ken Lay as Chairman - 1993 Miami Consolidated Mines Company ( Mining Scam) - Gila. Miami. Arizona 1916 Photomaton Parent Corporation (Fraud during market crash) - England 1928 United States Radium Company (Famous Radium Girls Lawsuit) - 1926 Pan Motor Company signed by Sam Pandolfo - Famous Fraud - 1919 - Minnesota Eastern Air Lines, Inc. with Frank Lorenzo as Chairman - Delaware 1989 Lawrence-Chase-Townley Association (Fraud) - Toronto, Canada 1886 Universal Lock-Tip Co (Famous Shoelace Fraud) - Massachusetts 1929 Paducah Cooperage Company (Stock Manipulation Scam) - Paducah, Kentucky InterNorth, Inc. (Became Enron) - Delaware 1983 Poyaisian Land Grant Scam signed by Gregor Mac Gregor - Nicaragua, 1834 IOS Investment Program Certificate ( Bernie Cornfeld as Chairman) - 1968 Flemish-Lynn Phonograph Company - New Jersey 1916 Chicago, Saginaw & Canada Railroad Co. (Recent Gold Bond Scam Investors have paid as much as $150,000 for this same Bond) 1873 Vulcan Match Co., Inc. (Ivan Kreuger Company) - New York 1920 homestore.com with Stuart Wolff as president ( Wolff got 15-Year Sentence for fraud) Tripler Liquid Air Company (Perpetual Motion Machine) - Arizona 1900 F.H. Smith Company (Chairman received a 14 year penitentiary sentence for fraud) - Washington DC 1929 Horton Aircraft Corporation ( Securities Fraud Action by SEC) - Nevada 1953 American Real Estate Company (Became Scandal in 1917) - New York 1912 Countrywide Mortgage Obligations, Inc. (Became Countrywide Financial Corp bailed out by Bank of America) - 1986 Holman Locomotive Speeding Truck Company - Minnesota 1896 Crazy Eddie, Inc. ( Famous electronics chain store FRAUD ) - 1989 Yamaichi Securities Company (Major Bank Failure) - Japan 1943 WorldCom, Inc. (Bernie Ebbers as President and Scott D. Sullilvan as Secretary) - Georgia WorldCom, Inc. (Bernie Ebbers as President and Scott D. Sullilvan as Secretary) - Georgia Dunham Incorporated signed by Otis Emerson Dunham - Massachusetts 1939 Reno Department of the American Petroleum Company signed by Charles Vernon Culver ( pyramid scheme scam)- Pennsylvania 1881 American International Group, Inc. - AIG Insurance - Largest Quarterly Loss in Corporate History Canadian Javelin Limited Stock Certificate - FRAUD Trump Entertainment Resorts, Inc. (Donald Trump as CEO, but later resigned)- Filed for Bankruptcy on February 17, 2009 - Delaware Hawthorne Silver & Iron Mines Limited (Scam run and signed by Julian Hawthorne, Son of Nathaniel Hawthorne) - Delaware 1910 Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae ) - Washington D.C. Citigroup Inc. (TARP bailout by U.S. Government) Enron Corporation - Kenneth L. Lay as Chairman - Plus George Bush Invent the Future Certificate! Freddie Mac (Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation) WorldCom, Inc. Washington Public Power Supply System Bond ( WPPSS aka Whoops ) - 1963 - Washington State British America Corporation 1901 - London, England signed by James Whitaker Wright LDDS Communications, Inc. (Bernard Ebbers as President) - Georgia 1995 Worldcom, Inc. (Bernard Ebbers as President and Scott D. Sullivan as Secretary) - Georiga 1996 New York and Baltimore Land and Improvement Co. ( Scam) - Maryland 1892 One Hundred Trillion Dollars Banknote (Really) from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe 2008 General Motors Corporation - (Uncancelled - Last Certificate issued before Bankruptcy)
Specimen Stocks and Bonds AAR Corp. - Aviation Rio Grande Valley Gas Company Oxoco - California Wieboltot Stores, Inc. WEBCOR, Inc. Kentucky Utilities Company Middle States Petroleum Corporation (Tennessee Gas Transmission Company ) State Guaranty Corporation Dexter Company - Iowa Kansas Electric Power Company ( Early Western Resouces Inc Company ) Pasiga Timber Company - Illinois Consumer Conservation Corporation Intertherm, Inc. Rhodes, Inc. - Georgia, Hotel Rocor International Energy Absorption Systems, Inc. Walter E. Heller International Corporation Reo Motors, Inc. National Deposit & Security Company - 1930's Washington -Statue of Liberty Vignette Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation - New York Richfield Oil Corporation Specimen Planet Hollywood International, Inc. - Delaware ( Demi Moore, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis ) Aetna Life and Casualty (Now Travelers Insurance Group ) Alteon Web Systems - Web Speed for e-business American Commercial Alcohol Corporation (American Distilling Company) American News Company Arthur J. Straus Participations, Inc. Milwaukee - Best Western Inn Towne Vignette Bally Manufacturing Corporation ( Early Park Place Entertainment Company) Beaver Board Companies (Certain Teed Products) Birdfinder Corp. ( Non Invasive Monitoring Systems, Inc ) Blockbuster Inc. - Specimen Stock Certificate BrainyBrawn.com, Inc. Bread Basket International Corp. Broadband shows image of airplane designed by Burt Rutan (designer of Spaceship One) California Oregon Power Company (Early Pacific Power and Light - PacificCorp Companies) Cenco Incorporared - Major Accounting Fraud Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation Specimen 1937 Commodity Warehouse Company, Inc. Corn Products Company (Corn Products International) Cyberweb Cafe, Inc. - Investors lost their appetite and the Company is Gonzo Douglas Aircraft Company Specimen - RARE Equity Funding Corporation of America - RARE Fraud Specimen Certificate eCyber Ventures Corp. Federal Bake Shops, Inc. Franklin Stores Corporation Garment Center Capitol, Inc. - New York General Industrial Alcohol Corporation (Oldetyme Distillers Company) General Theatres Equipment, Inc. Hammermill Paper Company 1920's Hershey Chocolate Corporation (Now Hershey Foods) thehealthchannel.com Payforview.com Corporation Goldenaccess.com, Inc. Whoodoo.com Gude Winmill Trading Corporation Industrial Instruments, Inc. (Beckman Instruments) InfoSPI.com TheNETdigest.com, Inc E-Cruiter.com Inc MetroGolf Incorporated Pacific American Fisheries, Inc. 1928 - Puget Sound / Alaska Libbey-Owens Securities Corporation Park-Ohio Industries, Inc. Peirce Wire Recorder Corporation (Early IBM Company) Popular, Inc. - San Juan, Puerto Rico Ralston Purina Company Rogers and Company - Famous Silverware Company 1920's Transamerica Corporation Scottish Inns Securities Shares Management Corporation San Jose Pacific Company, Ltd. Telex Corporation Thompson Products, Inc (The "T" in TRW) Thrifty Corporation - California Tymshare, Inc. Time Warner Inc. Triplex Corporation of America Pierce Wrapping Machine Company United Merchants and Manufacturers, Inc Julius Kayser & Co. (Early Gulf & Western Company) Rossville Commercial Alcohol Corporation (Rossville Union Distillers) Warner Communications Inc. Specimen ( Steven J. Ross as Chairman of the Board ) Wilson - Jones Company - Famous Binder Maker F.W. Dodge Corporation - McGraw-Hill Company - 1928 United Utilities, Incorporated (Early United Telecom and Sprint Company) Republic Oil & Gas Corporation Oak Manufacturing Company ( Early Cable Converter Maker ) Republic Petroleum Company - Early Phillips Petroleum Company Shawnee Pottery Company Philadelphia Dairy Products Company, Inc. (Early McKesson Company) United Inns Inc. (Bristol Hotels & Resorts) Purity Bakeries Corporation (American Bakeries) Lancaster Colony Corporation United National Financial Corporation Mead Corporation Universal Match Corporation Hospital Corporation of America United Public Service Corporation Universal American Corporation Rorer-Amchem, Inc. Union Bag & Paper Corporation (Camp Manufacturing Company) National Tea Co. Niagara Share Corporation of Maryland Sanitation Engineering Corporation 1935 Century Distilling Company Rand Information Systems, Inc. Pratt & Lambert - Inc. ( Paint Company ) Pollution Control Industries, Inc. Pop Wines, Inc. Newport Company (Newport Industries) Pavonia Building Corporation - New York Project 7, Inc. Transamerica Corporation - Transamerica Building Vignette Baxter Travenol Laboratories, Inc. (Now Baxter International) OAK Industries Inc. - Early Cable TV Converter and Subscription "On TV" Company John Blair & Company Centrac Associates Nexxus Technologies, Inc. Private Brands, Inc. Helm Resources, Inc. Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. Patent Cereals Company Planet Hollywood International, Inc. 1998 ( Arnold Schwarzenegger ) - Delaware Texas Instruments Incorporated - Delaware Douglas Aircraft Company ( Became McDonnell Douglas ) Armour and Company Gold Bond - Illinois 1918 Chicago - United Artists Theatre- Delaware 1928 Thomas De La Rue Specimen Certificate Shiitake Gourmet Mushrooms Limitable - Delaware Lone Star Gas Corporation - 1937 Texas ( Now Enserch Corporation ) American Meteorological Society - Board of Radio and Television Weathercasting CitiCorp Specimen $100 Traveler's Check - New York RedEnvelope, Inc. - Delaware New York Sugar Manufacturing Specimen - New York 1880 Sharper Image Corporation - New York 1987 Admiral Corporation Specimen ( Famous Radio and TV Manfacturer) - Delaware Upjohn Company - Delaware American Beef Packers Inc. - Iowa BankAmerica Corporation - Delaware Saatchi & Saatchi Company PLC - England Intuit (specimen) - Delaware 2000 Saicremoc Rail Road Co. - New York 1886 Occidental Petroleum Corporation - Delaware 1988 Wendy's International, Inc. High Yield Bond - Ohio 1985 Stokely-Van Camp, Inc. (Now ConAgra) - New Jersey 1977 America Online Incorporated (IPO Specimen Certificate ) - Deleware 1992 Armco Inc. - Ohio 1982 Hercules Powder Company Gold Bond Specimen Proof - Delaware 1913 Standard Oil Company - Indiana 1969 Atlantic and Pacific Steamship Company - Maine Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey (Scarce Specimen Stock Certificate) - 1969 American Bank Note Company Proof Sheet
Patents used in the United States Patent and Trademark Office Framed Patent used in the United States Patent and Trademark Office over 70 years ago Combined Telephone Receiver and Transmitter 1907 - Issued to Rodney F. Ludlow United States Patent for Galvanic Battery and Switch for Telephone Systems -1886 United States Patent for the Telegraphone issued to Charles K. Fankhauser - Rhode Island 1917 Patent of K. B. Miller Telephone Set - Washington, D.C. 1903 United States Patent issued to Jacob Berliner for Microtelephonic Apparatus - 1901 United States Patent for Measured Service Telephone System Patent issued to Edward S. Peterson - Illinois 1933
Colonial and Early U.S. Check signed by Marinus Willett as New York City Mayor in 1807 Vine Company of Pennsylvania (First winery in North America) - Pennsylvania , 1811 Colonial Note Payable for $580 - Catskill, New York 1798 Document (secretary) signed Jared Ingersoll - Jared Ingersoll was a signer of the U. S. Constitution Two Wheel Carriage License - Marlboro, South Carolina 1817 State of Connecticut Pay Table Draft 1784 - Revolutionary War State of Connecticut Treasury Note issued to Capt. Nathaniel Webb - Hartford, Connecticut 1783 Receipt of Lawful Money from Ralph Pomeroy - Connecticut 1791 State of Connecticut Treasury-Office Receipt signed by Peter Colt (Colt Firearms family ) - 1782 Connecticut Commissioner's Office Receipt for Yale College Funds - 1793 Pay-Table Office document for service in the Continental Army - 1783 State of Connecticut Pay-Table Draft signed by Oliver Wolcott Jr. - Connecticut 1782 State of Connecticut Comptroller's Office (Interest Payment on Stock in the United States Funds) - 1794 Continential Service - Depreciation of Money for Abner French - Connecticut 1780 Cargo Document from the Sloop Patty signed by Revolutionay War General Jedediah Huntington - New London, Connecticut 1790 Sale of 300 Acres in the Province of Pennsylvania signed by Samuel Mifflin - 1767 David McSwain assignment of property to Samuel Wallis - Province of Pennsylvania 1766 Eli Whitney hand signed Certificate - Westborough, Massachusetts 1776 Original invoice dated 1791 for goods purchased by Josiah Samuel Coates on a voyage by Captain Holland Settlement Payment to Sherriff - New York 1800 Invoice of Goods shipped by Sloop Merrimack signed twice by Samuel Coates - Philadelphia 1791 State of Connecticut Pay Table Receipt signed Oliver Wolcott- Hartford, Connecticut 1782 Land Sale Agreement from Samuel Bryson to Samuel Wallis - Pennsylvania, 1794 Land Deed from Pennsylvania signed by Peter Clinton - 1785 German Patent for County of Herkemer (Land Patent) - Newburgh, New York 1795 United States Bank Office of Discount and Deposit at New York (First Bank of the United States ) signed by Samuel Watkinson - Middletown, Connecticut 1802 State of Connecticut Pay Table Receipt signed Oliver Woolcott- Hartford, Connecticut 1782 Washington Lodge of Freemasons, Roxbury, Massachusetts (Group of 6 signed receipts) - 1802 Historic £3,000 Bond from the English Colony of Connecticut to form new regiment for Continential Army in New York - Dated June 25, 1776 (nine days before declaration of Independence) signed by Oliver Ellsworth and Simon Wolcott Indenture for 2000 acres in Pennsylvania dated April 15, 1685 Colony of Connecticut Bond - New London 1734 Bank of Pennsylvania Check signed E. Dutilh & Wachsmuth - Philadelphia 1796 Bank of Pennsylvania Check - Philadelphia 1795 Territorial Warrant - Lewis and Clarke County, Helena, Montana Territory - 1886 Society for Propagating the Gospel among the Indians (Organized to convert the heathen Indians to Christianity) - Boston 1793 1692 Colonial New York Document Land Transfer Cashier of the Bank of North America - 1818 Cashier of the Bank of North America - 1818
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Sports, Hotels, Entertainment Sports Blowing Rock Ski Lodge, Inc - North Carolina Audubon Park Raceway, Inc. - 1957 San Antonio Turn Verein - Texas 1926 Nashua Driving Park Association 1890 - Early Horse Race Track - New Hampshire New England Breeders' Club (Illegal Horse Racing Operation) - New Hampshire 1905 General Recreation, Inc. - Delaware 1975 Athletic Club of the Schuylkill Navy - Philadelphia, 1889 American Locker Company AMF (Bowling) Company - Pre Bankruptcy American Skiing Company Atlanta Braves Check 1969 Au Sable Holding Company 1929 - Au Sable Club - Michigan Baltimore Orioles, Inc. - Maryland Benson Sporting Goods Manufacturing Company, Inc. Biddeford and Saco Country Club 1921 - Maine Boston Celtics Limited Partnership ( NBA Basketball Team) Boston Golf Club Company, Limited Boston Celtics NBA Basketball Team Brandywine Raceway Association, Inc. ( NASCAR Dover Downs ) Brandywine Sports, Inc 1970's - Dover Downs - Old Harness Racing Vignette Broadway Joe's - Joe Namath 1969 - New York Jets Super Bowl Hero Broadway Joe Namath (unissued)- New York Jets Muhammad Ali Stock Certificate (Champburger Corporation ) - 1971 Championship Auto Racing Teams, Inc Churchill Downs Horse Racetracks ( Kentucky Derby Home ) Curt Flood & Associates - Missouri 1970 Fair Lanes, Inc. - Famous Bowling Company Florida Panthers Holdings, Inc - Hockey Club Golf Ball World, Inc. Herman's Sporting Goods, Inc. Hexcel Corporation Hollywood Park Racetrack Honolulu Stadium, Limited - Hawaii 1967 Kentucky Harness Racing Association, Inc 1959 Kentucky Harness Racing Association, Inc. 1956 Los Angeles Sharks, Inc. 1971 ( World Hockey Association ) Madison Square Garden Corporation - 2004 Republican National Convention Memphis Pros ( American Basketball Association ) MetroGolf Incorporated Monmouth Park Jockey Club - Issued to David A. Werblin Monmouth Park Jockey Club Monmouth Park Jockey Club issued to Leon Hess - New York Jets / Amerada Hess Oil Narragansett Racing Association, Inc. Cleveland Cavaliers NBA Team - 1970 Darryl Strawberry 1991 - D.A.R.E. to say no to drugs L.A.P.D. Dodger Baseball Card Philip Mead Bat Company - 1923 Rawlings Sporting Goods San Juan Racing Association 1979 - 1980 Seaview Golf Club 1920 - New Jersey Selma Base Ball & Athletic Association, Inc 1927 Sports Sciences, Inc. Stadium De Paris Olympic Sports Stadium 1934 St. Louis (Browns ) American League Base Ball Company - Now Baltimore Orioles STP NASCAR Racing Team Check - Richard and Kyle Petty on check 1981 Helsinki Olympics Savings Bond 1938 Garden Tennis Club 1919 - Early Tennis Racket Vignettte Trans - Lux Corporation - Professional Sport Scoreboards - Oldest AMEX Listing United States Basketball League (USBL) Villaclara Baseball Company 1921 Washington Country Club, Inc - 1909 Western Greyhound Racing Inc. - Dog Racing 1950's - Who let the Dogs Out? Wilson Sporting Goods Wilson Sporting Goods Co. Worthington Golf Ball Company 1927 - Elyria, Ohio World Wrestling Federation Entertainment, Inc. ( WF ) Yonkers Racing Corporation 1982 Hollywood Park, Inc. - Famous Los Angeles Racetrack St. Louis Browns American League Base Ball Company (Became Baltimore Orioles) - Missouri 1911 Rolling Glen Golf Club - St. Andrews, Scotland Big 5 Sporting Goods Corporation - Delaware Knoxville Baseball Association - Tennessee 1925 Hiawatha Country Club Association - Hiawatha, Kansas 1925 Carbon Company signed by J. Cal Ewing Baseball PCL Founder - Oakland, California 1924 Penske Motorsports, Inc. - Delaware 1998 Topeka Community Baseball, Inc. ( Topeka Hawks ) Topeka, Kansas, 1956 Warren District Country Club - Bisbee, Arizona 1911 Larson Industries, Inc. - Minnesota 1975 ( Larson Boat Works and Glasspar Boat Company ) Greater Washington Ice Skating Association - 1958 Richmond Bowling Alleys, Incorporated- Richmond, Virginia 1929 K Swiss Inc. ( Tennis Sporting Goods ) - Delaware 1990 Gander Mountain ( Sporting Goods ) - Minnesota Sports Authority - Delaware Bridgehampton Road Races Corporation - New York 1957 Montague City Fishing Rod Company (Became Ocean City Rod and Reel) - Massachusetts 1926 Bristol Athletic Association (Minor League Baseball ) - Bristol, Virginia 1911 Newark International Baseball Club - New York Yankees Farm Club - Signed by Paul Block - RARE 1931 American League Baseball Club of New York, Inc ( Early New York Yankees ) 1915 Bisbee Baseball Club, Inc - Arizona New York Yankees Football Club, Inc - RARE Ventura Baseball Club, Inc - California Brighton Beach Racing Association signed by William Engeman, Brighton Beach Founder - New York 1897 Weber Lifelike Fly Company - Stevens Point, Wisconsin 1952 British Columbia Thoroughbred Association, Limited - Vancouver, British Columbia 1914 Indians, Inc. ( Indianapolis Indians Baseball Team ) - Indiana 1955 Vols, Inc. (Double A Minor League Baseball Team) - Nashville, Tennessee 1959 Winston - Salem Twins, Inc. - North Carolina Southward Ho Country Club, Inc. - Bay Shore, New York 1925 Elizabeth Athletic Club - New Jersey 1892 Magnolia Park, Inc - Louisiana 1954 Eastern Baseball Club, Inc - Maryland Sam Snead Motor Lodges, Inc - Charlotte, North Carolina 1960 Sam Snead Golf, Inc - Charlotte, North Carolina 1960 Fort Wayne Ice Skating Rink Association - Indiana 1873 Independence Baseball Exhibition Company (Independence Producers) - Independence, Kansas Kendallville Elks Country Club - Kendallville, Indiana 1913 Johnny Unitas Quarterback Clubs, Inc. - Delaware 1972 Edmundston Curling Club, Ltd. - New Brunswick 1945 South America Land and Cattle Company signed by Famous Boxing Promoter and New York Rangers' Founder, George Lewis "Tex" Rickard Rickard Texas Oil Company, Inc (Named after Famous Boxing Promoter and New York Rangers' Founder, George Lewis "Tex" Rickard) - 1919 Suffolk Athletic Association - Virginia 1919 Melbourne Twins Baseball Club, Inc. (Minnesota Twins Farm Club) - Minnesota 1964 Buffalo Bisons Baseball Club, Inc. - New York 1955 International Speedway Corporation - Florida 1997 Cleveland Indians Baseball Company, Inc San Francisco Seals, Inc. Baseball Team (Pre S.F. Giants) - California 1954 Buffalo Bisons Baseball Club Inc. - Buffalo, New York 1957 Tennis Lady, Inc - Delaware Motor Racing Track Limited - London, England 1909 Atlantic City Racing Association signed by John B. Kelly, father of the late Princess Grace of Monaco - New Jersey 1951 North Downs Golf Club - Woldingham, Surrey - England 1912 Seattle Rainier Baseball Club, Inc signed by Emil Sick - Washington 1939 Prospectus for Cleveland Indians 1998 Memphis American Basketball Association (Pre Memphis Grizzlies) - Tennessee 1972 World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. Rare Specimen - Delaware Anaheim Stadium - Los Angeles Rams and California Angels Logos - RARE - 1990 Shakespeare Fishing Tackle Company - South Carolina American Ship Building Company - George Steinbrenner ( Yankees owner ) printed signature as Company’s Chairman of the Board New England Patriots Football Club (Rare Specimen) - William H. Sullivan, Jr. as President - Massachusetts 1976 Mercer Athletic Park Association - New Jersey 1870 Central Agricultural Society of New Jersey - Trenton, New Jersey 1867 Westcolang Lake and Delaware River Park (Hunting Dog with Duck in Mouth) - Pennsylvania 1887 Joe Rudi Player Contract with Topps Chewing Gum Company - 1966 Pittsburgh Triangles Tennis Team, Inc. (World Team Tennis ) - Pennsylvania 1973 Baltimore Trotting Races, Inc. - Maryland 1950 Staffordshire Cricket & Athletic Sports Company Limited - England 1885 Cheviot Base Ball Club Co. - Ohio 1923 New York Fillies (Womans Football Team) - New York 1972 Knickerbocker Country Club - New Jersey 1921 San Francisco Stadium, Inc. (Original Candlestick Park Bond) - California 1958 Lakeside Golf Club of Hollywood - California 1957 Cleveland Tennis Club Company - Ohio 1915 Plainview Country Club, Inc. - New York 1958 Great Western Race Track Association - Missouri 1870 St. Louis Browns Basesall Pass- Missouri 1939 Ocean Downs Racing Association, Inc. - Ocean City, Maryland 1953 American Basketball Association - Utah Salem Senators, Inc. (Minor league Baseball Team) - Oregon 1953 Congressional Country Club - Washington D.C. 1928 Ontario Motor Speedway Corporation - California 1968 Olympic Bowling Club Company, Limited - England 1955 Providence Tennis Club - Rhode Island 1882 Petoskey Golf Club - Michigan 1917 Victoria Bowling Club Company - England 1876 Canandaigua Enterprises Corporation (Now Finger Lakes Gaming & Racetrack) - New York 1982 William Penn Racing Association - Pennsylvania 1975 Washington Trotting Association, Inc. - Pennsylvania 1962 Brandywine Sports, Inc. - Delaware Standard-Bred Pacers and Trotters Incorporated - New York Ocean Downs Racing Association, Inc. - Berlin, Maryland 1968 Santa Anita Realty Enterprises, Inc. - Delaware Roosevelt Raceway, Inc. - New York 1940 Lac La Belle Golf Club - Wisconsin 1992 Florida Panthers Holdings, Inc. - Florida 1996 Dizzy Dean handsigned Photo on Card St. Clair Country Club - Illinois 1923 Pari-Mutuel Equipment Corporation (Made Horse Racing Betting Equipment) - New York 1962 Los Angeles Dodgers Letter regarding Jerry Grote signed by Al Campanis - 1978 Spalding Babe Ruth's Baseball Club - 1944 Princess Anne Country Club - Virginia Beach, Virginia 1916 Automatic Pari-Mutuel Limited - England 1929 Vedado Tennis Club - Cuba 1919 Port Angeles Golf and Country Club - Washington 1924 Lake Shore Athletic Club - Chicago, Illinois 1925 Quarterback Sports Federation, Inc. - Minnesota 1968 Gedney Farm Golf Club, Inc. (Now Ridgeway Country Club) - White Plains, New York 1929 Boston Athletic Association (founding organization of the Boston Marathon) Letter & Envelope - 1894 Canadaigua Enterprises Corporation (Now Finger Lakes Gaming & Racetrack) - New York 1970 North Shore Country Club, Inc. - Glen Head, New York 1914 Madison Square Garden Corporation - New York 1925 Rick Rhoden Contract (Los Angeles Dodgers) Steve Sax Contract - Los Angeles Dodgers Mike Scioscia Contract (Los Angeles Dodgers & Los Angeles Angeles) - 1976 New Haven Arena Company - Connecticut 1927 Hollywood Park Realty Enterprises, Inc. - Delaware 1989 Midwest Saints, Inc. - Minnesota 1973 ( Minnesota Fighting Saints WHL Hockey ) Cleveland Professional Basketball Company (Cleveland Cavaliers NBA Team) - Ohio - 1981 Yankees Player Transfer Agreement 1924 - signed by Yankees' Owner Jacob Ruppert Valley Club of Montecito - Golf Club located in Santa Barbara, California - 1946 Suburban Club House Corporation - Stamford, Connecticut 1913 Halifax Golf Club, Limited. - England 1935 Liberty Winter Sports, Inc. -Walnut Mountain Ski Area - Liberty, New York 1938 Amateur Golfers' Association of America, Inc. - Delaware 1985 Amateur Golfers' Association of America, Inc. - Delaware 1985 The National Base Ball Club of Washington D.C. - Incorporated in Virginia - 1890's Ponce de Leon Trotting Association, Inc. - Florida 1959 Dale Jarrett Racing Adventure, Inc. - Florida Green Bay Packers, Inc. - 1997 Parkway Riding Association - New York 1917 New Amarillo Athletic Club - Amarillo, Texas 1928
Hotels, Gambling and Recreation Motel Managers Training School Inc. - Delaware 1969 Caesars World, Inc. ( Famous Las Vegas Hotel ) Grand Casinos, Inc. ( Now Park Place Entertainment ) Thousand Trails - Seattle, Washington Yellowstone Park Hotel Company Yellowstone Park Transportation Company Hotel Register from Tacoma Inn - Lewiston, Maine 1925 Register from St. James Hotel, Springfield, Ohio - 1879 Register from New Shaw House - Sheffield, Pennsylvania 1915 Register from the Hotel Virginia - Quincy, Illinois 1928 Register from the Summit House, Athol, Massachusetts - 1874 Savoy Plaza Corporation - New York 1925 - Famous New York Hotel Pacific Leisure Enterprises - Hawaiian Islands Vignette Huntington Hotel Company - 1936 ( Now Ritz-Carlton, Huntington Hotel & Spa ) Federated Systems, Inc. - Nevada 1929 signed by Milton Prell founder of the Sahara Hotel Hotel Warren Corporation - 1919 - Offices located in Cleveland, Ohio United States Hotel Company - Early Atlantic City, New Jersey 1883 Four Seasons Hotels Inc. - Ontario, Canada Pan Pacific Development Corporation - Canada Art Students Inn - New York Atlanta Motor Lodges, Inc. Bally Manufacturing Corporation ( Early Park Place Entertainment Company) Bowman - Biltmore Hotels Corporation 1936 Bowman-Biltmore Hotels Corporation - New York 1940's Boyd Gaming Corporation Caesars World, Inc - Famous Las Vegas Caesars Palace Hotel - 1980 Caesars World, Inc. Caesars World, Inc. 13 1/2% Interest Rate on Debt - 1987 Club Hotel Corporation of New York 1929 El Dorado Guest Ranch, Inc 1929 Ford Hotels Company - New York Edgewood Park Association Limited 1886 - Alexandria Bay, New York Fred and Harry W. Van Orman, Inc. - Illinois - Hotel Orlando Vignette - Famous Hotel Company Galen Hall Company - New Jersey Host International, Inc. Hotel Barbizon - Famous New York Hotel 1940's Hotel Corporation of America 1958 (Sonesta International Hotels ) Hotel Lucerne Corporation 1929 Hyatt International Corporation Hotel Harvey Gold Bond - Chicago, Illinois 1929 Inns of New England, Inc. 1923 Lake Placid Hotel Company - Essex County, New York - 1880's Lake Placid Company Ten Year Note - Lake Placid Club, Essex County, New York 1968 Vegas World Corporation ( Now Stratosphere Hotel ) - 1987 Lord Simcoe Hotel - Toronto Lum's, Inc. ( Company Name Changed to Caesars World ) Madison Hotel - New York Mark Hopkins Hotel 1930 - San Francisco, California signed by founder George D. Smith as President Mason City Hotel Company 1922 Mayflower Hotel (Famous Washington DC Hotel - Eliot Spitzer's Home away from Home) 1920's Mirage Resorts, Inc. - Las Vegas Hotel Company - Stephen Wynn as Chairman Prince of Wales Hotel Company, Southport. Ltd. President Hotel Corporation 1927 President Hotel Company 1930 - New Jersey Ramada Inns, Inc. with founder Marion W. Isbell as President Ramada Inns, Inc. Romanian Hotel 1906 - Wonderful Graphics Scottish Inns Suisun City Hotel Company 1889 - Solano County, California Tabard Inn Corporation 1904 Stock Certiifcate - Old Inn Vignette - New Jersey Tod House Company 1920 - Youngstown, Ohio Trusthouse Forte plc Vancouver B.C. Development Company Limited 1913 Virginia Hotel Corporation Gold Bond - Nevada 1931 Western Hotels Company 1964 - Washington DC Williamson Community Hotel Corporation (Mountaineer Hotel) 1925 - West Virginia Wynn Resorts, Limited - Low Number Certificate - New Las Vegas Hotel Stardust Hotel of Las Vegas, Nevada -Trustees Participation Certificate 1958 Wirral Hotels - 1922 UK United States Realty Sheraton Corporation - New Jersey 1946 Sonesta International Hotels Corporation - New York Atlantic Lottery Corporation Inc., Canada White Oak Hill Spring and Hotel Company - Maine 1902 Community Hotel Corporation ( Olympic Hotel ) - Seattle, Washington 1924 Pacific Hotel Company of Chicago - Illinois 1873 Mason City Hotel Company - Delaware 1922 Hotel Gibson Corporation - Cincinnati, Ohio Hotel Governor Clinton, Inc. ( Now Southgate Tower ) - New York 1928 Pico Park Company - Los Angeles, California 1916 Converse Rubber Shoe Company signed by Marquis M. Converse - Massachusetts 1922 Marriott International, Inc. - Delaware Hotel Gibson Company - Cincinnati, Ohio 1919 Sinepuxent Beach Company (Atlantic Hotel Builder) - Ocean City, Maryland 1892 Ricker Hotel Company ( Mount Kineo House ) issued to Edward P. Riker - Maine 1926 Mira-Mar Hotel - Sarasota, Florida 1923 Plaisance Hotel - Chicago, Illinois 1925 Beach Hotel Company - Illinois 1930 Dorado Del Mar Hotel Corporation - Puerto Rico La Quinta Inns, Inc - Dallas, Texas ( Pre merger) Merchant's Hotel Company of Baltimore City - Maryland 1904 Hotel Rennert Company - Baltimore City, Maryland 1931 Dante's Motel, Inc. - New Jersey 1963 Valley Forge Hotel Company - Pennsylvania 1926 Standard Motels, Inc. (Founder of the Hacienda Hotel in Las Vegas) - California 1971 J.R. Whipple Corporation ( Owned Hotels Young, Touraine and the Parker House) - Boston, Massachusetts 1926 Sam Snead Motor Lodges, Inc - Charlotte, North Carolina 1960 Great White Horse Inn (Name mentioned in Charles Dickens Pickwick Papers ) - Illinois 1892 Inter-Island Resorts, Ltd. with Walter D. Child Sr. as President - Territory of Hawaii 1954 Register from the New Madison Hotel - Spokane, Washington 1921 American House Registration and Blotter - Greenwich, New York 1900 Fauquier White Sulphur Spring Company - Warrenton , Virginia 1879 United States Hotel Signed Register and Ads - Los Angeles, California 1887 Manhattan Towers Hotel (Broadway at 76th Street) $500 Gold Bond- New York 1928 Cumberland Hotel Company (Owner of the Fort Cumberland Hotel) - Maryland 1955 Lake Placid Company - Essex County, New York 1920 Winter Park Hotel Company issued to Judge Lewis Lawrence - RARE - Florida 1885 Wawona Hotel Company of Yosemite National Park (Rare) - California 1904 Manhasset Company ( Manhasset Hotel ) Seaside Heights/Park, New Jersey 1912 Pere Marquette Building (Now Renaissance Pere Marquette Hotel) - New Orleans, Louisiana 1925 New York United Hotels, Inc. (Famous Roosevelt Hotel ) - New York 1925 Richmond Beach Hotel Company - Staten Island, New York 1881 U.S. Mint, Inc (manufacturer of gaming tokens for Las Vegas ) Sears Point International Raceway, Inc. - California Marcus Corporation (Marcus Theatres and Marcus Hotels ) - Delaware Hotel Claremont -Oakland, California 1915 Ruffner Hotel Incorporated -Charleston, West Virginia 1921 Atlantic Hotel Company - Ocean City, Maryland 1868 Vinoy Park Hotel Company - St. Petersburg , Florida 1937 Royal Inns of America, Inc. - California Atlas Hotels, Inc. - Delaware Glen Echo Resort Company - Maryland 1892 Lasalle Hotel Realty Company - Southbend, Indiana 1921 Prime Motor Inns, Inc. - Delaware 1988 Harrah's (largest gaming company in the world) - Nevada 1978 Sheraton Corporation of America - New Jersey 1947 Hilton Hotels Corporation with Conrad Hilton a President (Paris Hilton Family) - Delaware Sheraton Corporation of America with Ernest Henderson as President - New Jersey Sheraton Corporation of America - New Jersey 1956 Trump Hotels & Casinos Resorts (Rare 15 1/2% Junk Bond) - Delaware Harrah's - Nevada 1972 Glendale Hotel Company - California 1927 Sevilla-Biltmore Hotel Corporation - Havana, Cuba 1922 Royal Inns of America, Inc. - Calfornia 1970 Island Hotel Company, Limited - Territory of Hawaii - 1944 Inter-Island Resorts, Ltd. - Hawaii 1973 Inter-Island Resorts, Ltd. - Hawaii 1968 Bingo King Company - Colorado 1981 New York United Hotels, Inc. - The Roosevelt Hotel in New York - Delaware 1927 National Exchange Hotel Company - Nevada City, California 1864 Sheraton Corporation of America - New Jersey 1955 Fantasy Island Amusement Park (Now Martin's Fantasy Island ) - Grand Island, New York 1963 Crossway Motor Hotels, Inc. - Delaware 1968 Windsor Hotel Company of Montreal - Quebec, Canada 1900 Morrison Hotel Corporation - Famous Chicago Hotel Greenbrier Resort Hotel White Sulphur Springs Company (famous nuclear holocaust bunker) signed by Governor Henry Mason Mathews - West Virginia 1882 Chicago Beach Hotel, Inc. - Illinois 1943 Old Point Comfort Improvement Company (Hotel Chamberlin and Hotel Hygeia) - Hampton Roads , Virginia 1901 Signature Resorts, Inc. - Maryland 1998 Hutchins House Company (Famous Houston Hotel) - Texas 1877 Sheraton Corporation (Sheraton Hotels) - New Jersey 1984 Vanderbilt Hotel Corporation - New York 1929 Ritz -Carlton Restaurant & Hotel Company of Atlantic City - Delaware 1921 Brunswick Hotel Co. - Massachusetts 1923 Blue Ridge Hotel Company (Blue Mountain House ) - Maryland 1883 Wellesley Inn Corporation - Massachusetts 1909 Navarre Hotel Company - New York 1909 Home Hotel Company - St. Louis 1870's Alden Park Hotel and Bath Co. - Alden, New York 1909 Acacia Hotel Corporation - Colorado Springs, Colorado - 1920 MGM Mirage Hotel - Las Vegas Stardust Hotel - Las Vegas, Nevada 1954 Sands Hotel - Las Vegas Sands Corporation Sheraton Hotel Corporation of America (Convertible Debenture) - 1955 H. R. Weissberg Corporation ( Owned the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago and the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York ) - Delaware 1967 Midway Hotel Company signed by Levin Faust - Rockford, Illinois 1929 Stockton Hotel and Improvement Co. of Cape May, N.J. (Signed by Civil War General William J. Sewell ) - 1872 World Poker Tour Enterprises (WPTE) - Delaware Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts (Filed for Bankruptcy in 2004) - Donald Trump as Chairman
Motion Pictures and Other Entertainment Unicorn Film Service Corporation - 1916 ( Silent Film Distribution Company ) United Printers and Publishers 1930's - 1940's - Rust Craft Greeting Cards / Ziff Corporation United Reproducers Corporation 1929 United States Moving Pictures Corporation 1921 Virgo Films Inc Widescope Camera & Film Corp. (Early Cinerama and IMAX Technology) - Delaware 1923 Vivendi Universal Walt Disney Productions Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc. Warner Communications Inc. Specimen ( Steven J. Ross as Chairman of the Board ) WAVE-TV - Pioneer Award Certificate for Kentucky and Indiana Wings Over San Antonio, Inc. 1936 Motion Picture Wireless Pictures (1928) Limited "The Fultograph" - First Wireless Fax Machine Woodley Theater Company 1915 - Los Angeles, California World Film Corporation 1919 - Famous Silent Film Company Worlds of Wonder - California Club -Theatre Network, Inc. - Florida Wurlitzer Scholarship Certificate 1924 Walt Disney Company - Delaware 1990 Walt Disney Company - 1990 ERA Productions, Inc. - California 1956 signed by Walt Disney animator Brice Mack Universal Furniture Company - Indiana 1959 Orpheum Circuit Inc. signed by Martin Beck - 1920 - Early Silent Movie Theatre Chain Famous Players Canadian Corporation, Limited - Canada Charter Company - Florida 1984 ( Became Speiing Entertainment Group ) National Theatres & Television, Inc. - Delaware ( Became National General ) Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation 1978 American Collectors Company 1898 ( Scott Stamp Company ) - New Jersey 1898 American Greetings Corporation - Ohio American Program Bureau, Inc. - Speaker's Bureau 1987 Animated Photograph Company, Ltd. 1906 Artex Hobby Products Inc ( Now Colgate Palmolive ) Atlas Productions - Note 195_ Audio-Cinema, Incorporated 1930 Ballantine Gardens, Inc. - New York World's Fair 1939 Beate Uhse - best known erotic business in Germany Bell & Howell Company - Illinois Bell and Howell Company Bell & Howell Company Blockbuster Inc. - Specimen Stock Certificate British Automatic Company 1930 British Lion Film Corporation 1946 British National Opera Company 1921 Cannon Group Incorporated / Pathe Communications Group Cedar Fair ( Knott’s Berry Farm , Cedar Point, Camp Snoopy ) Central Motion Picture District, Inc 1929 Chronicles of America Picture Corporation 1923 Cinerama, Inc 1960's - Early Hollywood Wide Screen Movie Maker Civilization Film Corporation 1917 Clarke County Horse & Colt Show Association 1902 - Berryville, Virginia Columbia Motion Pictures Hollywood Movie Studio Colour Snapshots Limited 1929 Columbia Theatre Company 1908 Collectors Universe, Inc. Commonwealth Pictures Corporation 1918 - signed by Hans A. Spanuth - RARE Democracy Photoplay Company 1919 - Movie "The Vision Restored " Early Euro Disney D.W. Griffith, Incorporated 1921 - Famous Hollywood Director / Producer Dynamic Films, Inc. 1960 Edgar Bergan Interests Stock Certificate plus Signed Check Ellendale Amusement Company 1909 St. Louis, Missouri SCHINE Chain Theatres Stock 1928 - Famous Surpreme Court Anti Trust Decision F.C. Taylor's Theatrical Enterprises 1913 - New York Films Metropole, Paris 1929 Filmways, Inc. ( Martin Ransohoff as President ) Fox Entertainment Group, Inc with Rupert Murdoch as Chairman Fox Film Corporation ( Now Fox Entertainment - Fair and Balanced) - New York, 1926 Fox Film Corporation (Became National Theatres) 1931 Fox Film Corporation 1932 Fox Theatres Corporation - New York 1931 Frohman Amusement Corporation 1920 - Silent Screen Motion Picture Company General Cinema Corporation Goldwyn Pictures Corporation 1919 - Pre MGM Gulf and Western Inc. - 1988 ( Now Viacom ) Guild Films Company, Inc. Gulf & Western Industries, Inc. (Now Paramount Communications) Gulf & Western Industries, Inc. Gulf & Western Corporation ( Became Paramount Pictures - Now Viacom ) 1959 - Michigan Hollywood Playhouse Realty Corporation - Hollywood, California Hollywood Social Club Limited 1930 Imax Corporation ( Large Screen Motion Picture Company ) International Exhibition Company 1881 Invisible Man Corporation Indian Runner Corporation 1923 Inflight Services, Inc. - Early Airline Reel to Reel Entertainment System Itonia Gramophones Limited 1929 National Lampoon, Inc - California Julius Kayser & Co. (Early Gulf & Western Company) Kahn Kid Komedies 1924 Kahn Kid Komedies - 1924 Kentucky Racing and Breeding Association 1903 Kinemacolor Company of America 1917 - Early Color Pictures La Suisse Cinema - 1919 Leica Camera AG ( Famous Camera Maker ) L'Hippodrome 1898 Lion Country Safari, Inc. - Lions, Tigers and Cars, oh my.... Loew's Boston Theatres Co. 1930 Loew's Boston Theatres Co. 1927 Loews Corporation 1973 Loews Theatres Stock Certificate - L. Tisch Lorelei Amusement and Realty Company 1914 Lone Star Pictures Corporation - 1920 Marvel Entertainment - Owners of Spider-Man, X-Men and Incredible Hulk Marvel Entertainment Group, Inc. ( Owners of Spider-Man, X-Men and Incredible Hulk Pre Bankruptcy ) Marshfield Theatre Company 1912 signed by O. T. Crawford Mattel Toy Company Mattel. Inc. Toy Company Stock Certificate (Ruth Handler as President) Mattel, Inc. Mattel Toy Company - Colorful Vignette Merger Pictures, Inc 1928 MGM - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. Metropolitan Sound Studios, Inc. Midwestern Oil Refining Company - Prop used in Movies at Christie Film Company Milton Bradley Company Minneapolis Theatre Company 1936 Mirth-Makers Film Company - 1916 Mohican Club 1907 - Vermont National Film Corporation 1917 Nebraska Amusement Co. 1914 Nevada Motion Picture Corporation 1916 New World Pictures, Ltd. Inflight Motion Pictures 1973 Universal Pictures Company $100 Bill Non - Inflammable Film Company 1927 North American Film Corporation 1915 Official Bulletin of the Screen Actors Guild 1938 Official Films International Official Films, Inc (Official Industries) Orpheum Theatres 1924 - Lion Vignette Pathe Exchange, Inc. - New York 1930 Pathe Laboratories, Inc. (of California) Pan American Exposition Company Stock signed by John Milburn - 1901 Panavision Inc. - Famous Hollywood Camera Company Panda Productions 1950's Paramount Pictures Corporation Stock w/vignette - 1960s Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation ( Early Paramount Pictures ) Palisade Theatre Corporation - New Jersey 1920 Phonographes & Cinematographes "LUX" (French Music Company with image of Statue of Liberty) 1906 Picture Machine Service Corporation 1922 Picture of the Month, Inc. Playboy Enterprises, Inc. Playgirl Industries Corporation - Nevada Pleasurama 1983 Carolco Motion Pictures Company Bond - RAMBO / Terminator Movie Company Reelcraft Pictures Corporation 1920 signed by R. C. Cropper Reeperbahn Genuß-Schein - Erotic Comic Certificate from Germany Rellimeo Film Syndicate - Silent Movie Production Company - 1923 California Ringling Brothers - Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows - Red Richard Thomas Productions, Inc - 1926 Rivers of the America in Frontierland, Walt Disney World Pilot's Certificate RKO Theatres Corporation Roxie Amusement Company 1939 Roxy Theatres Corporation Stock 1930's &nb |
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