expert on old stock certificates

[Joe Andrew]

Many thanks - yes, we do call stocks shares, though we also refer to 
stocks and shares - funny people us English, with an even stranger 
language!

Best

Joe


On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 01:33:30 -0500 (CDT) Prof Steven P Hill 
<s-hill4 at uiuc.edu> wrote:

> Dear colleagues & Prof Andrew:
> 
> Traditionally the leading expert in determining the value of old stock 
> certificates has been R. M. SMYTHE & CO. of New York.  Supposedly 
> experts at Smythe can research the value (or lack of value) of such
>  financial documents, as well or better than any other firm can do it.  
> I've heard that they do charge a fee for their services. Here is Smythe's 
> web-site, which displays contact information:
> 
> http://www.smytheonline.com/home/index.php
> 
> Best wishes to all,
> Steven P Hill,
> University of Illinois (USA).
> 
> P.S.  Evidently in the UK they use the term "share certificates" 
> analogously to the US term "stock certificates."
> __ __ __ __  
> 
> Date: Fri 1 Jun 01:00:49 CDT 2007
> From:  <LISTSERV at BAMA.UA.EDU> 
> Subject: Re: GETPOST SEELANGS 
> To: "Steven P. Hill" <s-hill4 at UIUC.EDU> 
> 
> Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 10:01:17 +0100
> From: Joe Andrew <j.m.andrew at LANG.KEELE.AC.UK> 
> Subject: Share Certificates 
> 
> Dear SEELANGERS
> I have received from an aunt some share certificates for 'Russo-Asiatic 
> Consolidated Limited' issued to my grandfather in Glasgow in 1941.
> 
> Does anyone know whether these would be of any value, either in terms of 
> their actual value, or as historical documents; or where I could find this 
> out?
> 
> Best
> Joe Andrew
> j.m.andrew at lang.keele.ac.uk
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------
> 
> Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 04:21:52 -0700
> From: Olga Meerson <meersono at GEORGETOWN.EDU> 
> Subject: Re: Share Certificates 
> 
> Of historical value, definitely, perhaps immense.
> o.m.
> ____________________________________________________________

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Joe Andrew
j.m.andrew at lang.keele.ac.uk

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