expert on old stock certificates
Joe Andrew
j.m.andrew at LANG.KEELE.AC.UK
Fri Jun 1 08:10:58 UTC 2007
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 their actual value, or as historical documents; or where I could find this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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