RM Smythe Old Stock Research Service Since 1880

Old Company Stock Research Service / RM Smythe is the successor to the archives, publishing rights and copyrights on obsolete research reference material published by the RM Smythe, Marvyn Scudders Manuals, the Robert D. Fisher Manuals, and the Herzog & Co., Inc. obsolete research services, which have performed expert old stock research services continuously since 1880.…

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Dealer Profile: Bob Kerstein of Scripophily.com – International Bond & Share Society

Dealer Profile: Bob Kerstein of Scripophily.com ….Bob has a strong background in accounting and in the internet business. He is a Certified Public Accountant and has been the Chief Financial Officer of several publicly held communications companies. As Chief Information Officer of the Vancouver Grizzlies and Vancouver Canucks he was responsible for the first team…

17th Annual International Scripophily, Stock, Bond and Paper Money Show held in Herndon, Virginia was another big success for both collectors and dealers

FAIRFAX, VA. (PRWEB) FEBRUARY 13, 2018 The 17th Annual International Stock and Bond Show in Herndon, Virginia had another successful show with thousands of historical and artistic stock and bond certificates, autographs, paper money documents, and much more. The show had dealers from all over the United States and from Germany. The show also included a…

Coming to Herndon, the 17th annual International Stocks and Bonds Show

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Dealers from all over the world and collectors who are interested in Scripophily will be attending the 17th Annual International Stock and Bond Show in Herndon on January 26 and 27 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel near Dulles Airport on 2200 Centerville Road.

Bob Kerstein , the founder of Scripophily.com, showing a Standard Oil Trust stock certificates issued in 1882 and printed by the Franklin Bank Note Company; and a rare Novelty Air Ship Company stock certificate issued in 1888

“If anybody has stock certificates, they can bring them to find out their value. People have them and don’t know they may have a value,” said Bob Kerstein, the “Old Stock Detective” and founder of Scripophily.com.

The show will have thousands of historical and artistic stock and bond certificates, autographs, paper money documents, and much more.

Scripophily (scrip-ah-fil-ly) is the hobby of collecting old stock and bond certificates. Certificate values range from a few dollars to more than $500,000 for the most unique and rare items. Tens of thousands of Scripophily buyers worldwide include casual collectors, corporate archives, business executives, museums, and serious collectors.

Mr. Kerstein, a resident of Fairfax County, started collecting stock and bond certificates in 1990:

“I had moved to the Washington, D.C., area to become the Chief Financial Officer of American Mobile Satellite Corporation. One weekend, when my family was still in Seattle, I went to a Civil War collectibles show and visited a booth where they were selling Confederate bonds bearing an image of Stonewall Jackson. I laughed, because I thought the paper was worthless. Then I began to think about the history behind the certificates. I realized the paper was part of the fabric of U.S. and financial history. I got hooked; I became a collector and in 1995 set up a website and began selling online.”

Due to the computer age, more stocks and bonds are being issued electronically, which means fewer paper certificates. As a result, demand for paper certificates is increasing while supply is decreasing.

“This is the only show in the country that specializes in stocks and bonds and is managed by the world famous Bob Schell. We will be offering Free Old Stock Certificate Research Services ($39.95 Value) to anyone who brings in a certificate to our booth and wants to know what happened to the company. The research service is called OldCompany.com and the services have been performed continuously since 1880,” said Mr. Kerstein.

There are many factors that determine the value of a certificate. “Collectability comes first. What makes it desirable? The historical significance: like being issued by a significant company or a famous person. Also, the beauty of a graphic picture and if it is really rare are other factors. Stock certificates make great gifts and wonderful collectibles especially when they are historically relevant,” Kerstein explained.

The 17th Annual International Stock and Bond Show

The Crowne Plaza Hotel near Dulles Airport on 2200 Centerville Road (call 800-227-6963).

9a.m. to 6p.m., Jan. 26

9a.m. to 4p.m., Jan. 27

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Sharing Stocks Program with Museum of American Finance – MOAF

             
                       Bob Kerstein, Founder Scripophily.com
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Scripophily is offering Free Shipping and Seatrain Lines. Stock Certificate with all Orders Plus Free certificate signed by George Bush’s Grandfather with Orders over $200

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Samuel Prescott Bush was the President of Buckeye Steel Castings. He is the Grandfather of President George H. W. Bush, and the Great Grandfather of President George W. Bush and Governor Jeb Bush.

Buckeye Steel Castings Stock Certificate signed by Samuel Prescott Bush

Old Stock and Bond Certificates Make Great Gifts for the Holidays

WASHINGTON DC (PRWEB) NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Scripophily.com ®, the Internet’s largest buyer and seller of collectible stock and bond certificates, is is offering free shipping and a Seatrain Lines. stock certificate with all orders plus a free Buckeye Steel Castings Inc stock certificate signed by George Bush’s Grandfather with all orders over $200.

Samuel P. Bush ( Samuel Prescott Bush b. 1863. d. 1948) was the President of the Buckeye Steel Castings Co. in Columbus, Ohio, makers of railcar parts from 1907 – 1927. His entire career had been in the railroad business– supplying equipment to the Wall Street-owned railroad systems. Samuel Prescott Bush, was a close adviser to President Hoover. Samuel P. Bush was also the first president of the National Association of Manufacturers.

Samuel Prescott Bush was a member of the Stevens Institute of Technology class of 1884. Bush was on the varsity football and baseball teams, and belonged to the tennis club and served a term as a director of the Stevens Athletic Association, all while earning his bachelor’s degree. In the early 1890s, Bush assisted Ohio State football coach Jack Ryder and helped organize an amateur baseball league in Columbus – – he played second base on the Pennsylvania Railroad Columbus Shop team. In 1892 he and two others organized one of Columbus’s first tennis clubs. Later, as a charter member of the Scioto Country Club in that city, he chaired the club’s golf- course construction committee. Bush, who died in 1948, was a noted industrialist — railroads and steel were his businesses — who also performed extensive civic and community service. Stevens recognized that service in 1947 by awarding him an honorary – degree of doctor of engineering.

Samuel is the Grandfather of President G. W. Bush, the Father of Prescott S. Bush (Prescott Bush, was a senator and the tallest man in the Senate for many years) and the Great Grandfather of President George W. Bush and Governor Jeb Bush. Samuel married Flora Sheldon, daughter of Robert Emmet Sheldon and Mary Elizabeth Butler, on 20 Jun 1894 in Columbus, OH.

Stock certificates are collected and given as gifts because of their historical significance, beauty and artwork, autographs, notoriety, as well as many other factors. The supply of new certificates reaching the collector market has been substantially reduced due to changes in state laws and stock exchanges rules. Many companies are no longer required to issue physical stock and bond certificates, a process called “dematerialization.”

Scripophily (scrip-ah-fil-ly) is the name of the hobby of collecting old stock and bond certificates. Certificate values range from a few dollars to more than $500,000 for the most unique and rare items. Tens of thousands of Scripophily buyers worldwide include casual collectors, corporate archives, business executives, museums and serious collectors. Due to the computer age, more and more stock and bonds are issued electronically which means fewer paper certificates are being issued. As a result, demand for paper certificates is increasing while supply is decreasing.

Our company has been featured on CNBC, USA Today, Associated Press, Reuters, Nightline, Today Show, Baltimore Sun, and Washington Post and in many other media publications. Scripophily.com has items on display in museums around the world.

The company also offers the World’s #1 old stock research service at OldCompany.com and offers high resolution scans for publications. Scripophily.com has over 16,500 selections on its website.

Scripophily.com /Old Company Research Service, founding member of the Old Stock Exchange, is the successor company to all material published by the Marvyn Scudders Manuals, the Robert D. Fisher Manuals,R.M. Smythe Stock Research Service, and the Herzog & Co., Inc. obsolete research services. These services have been performed continuously for over 137 years since 1880. We are the leading provider of authentic stock certificates, autographs, and old company stock research services.

Scripophily.com and Old Company Research Services was founded by Bob Kerstein (Bob.com). Bob is a CPA and CGMA, and has more than 41 years of senior management experience in the Cellular, Cable TV, Satellite, Internet, Professional Sports and Entertainment Industries. Bob is also the President of the Professional Scripophily Traders Association (PSTA).

For more information on Scripophily.com®, visit https://www.scripophily.com, https://www.oldcompany.com, https://www.scripophily.net, http://www.rambo.com, http://www.bob.com or call 1-703-787-3552

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Old Company Research is the successor to RM Smythe Stock Research Service and is the publisher of all material of the Marvyn Scudders Manuals, the Robert D. Fisher Manuals, R.M. Smythe stock research archives, and the Herzog & Co., Inc. obsolete research services. Professional researching of old stock and bond certificates provides information in determining redeemable worth as a financial security and collectible value. Old Stock Certificates may have value and should always be investigated before they are disposed.

Bob Kerstein – The Old Stock Detective

An old stock or bond certificate may still be valuable even if it no longer trades under the name printed on the certificate.

MANHATTAN, NEW YORK (PRWEB) NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Old Company Research Service (OldCompany.com) is celebrating 137 years of continuous old stock and bond research services. The service was founded in 1880 by Roland M. Smythe and was later expanded with the addition of Marvyn Scudder and Robert D. Fisher. In 2011, Scripophily.com, the parent company of Old Company Research Service, acquired the old stock & bond business research service correspondence, archives and copyrights from Herzog & Co., Inc. (formally R.M. Smythe Old Stock Research Services). The acquisition included all reference material published by the Marvyn Scudders Manuals, the Robert D. Fisher Manuals, and Herzog & Co., Inc.

Since the acquisition, we have successfully integrated the archives, repositories and resources into our proprietary information management systems. Under the direction of trained old stock research professionals, the data merger has ensured our continual commitment to quality and value with efficient access to this previously hard to recover information for a cost effective price.

The old company and securities research service provides investigative analysis for financial and accounting firms, professionals, attorneys, investors, estates and trusts in cases of questioned securities and lost company identities. The research investigations will probe into the corporate history, capital changes, mergers, acquisitions, bankruptcies, legal proceedings, regulatory filings, and analysis of companies to assess the disposition of financial holdings.

In addition to the potential redeemable value sought by investors, Scripophily.com offers insight into the secondary historical finance market by assessing any possible collectible value. SCRIPOPHILY is the hobby of collecting authentic old stock and bond certificates. The name resulted from the combining of the English and Greek words “scrip” represents an ownership right and the word “philos” meaning to love.

Scripophily.com is the Internets leading buyer and seller of collectible stock and bond certificates, and old stock research at OldCompany.com. The company has had items on display in the Museum of American Finance in New York, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution. Scripophily.com has been featured on CNBC, Today Show, Inside Edition, Associated Press, USA Today, Baltimore Sun, Washington Post and in many other media publications.. Our online store has over 17,500 selections including categories such as Frauds, Scandals, Bankruptcies, Dot Coms, as well as the traditional American industries.

Scripophily.com /Old Company Research Service, founding member of the Old Stock Exchange, is the successor company to all material published by the Marvyn Scudders Manuals, the Robert D. Fisher Manuals, R.M. Smythe Stock Research Service, and the Herzog & Co., Inc. obsolete research services. These services have been performed continuously for over 137 years since 1880. We are the leading provider of authentic stock certificates, autographs, and old company stock research services.

Scripophily.com and Old Company Research Services was founded by Bob Kerstein (Bob.com). Bob is a CPA and CGMA, and has more than 41 years of senior management experience in the Cellular, Cable TV, Satellite, Internet, Professional Sports and Entertainment Industries. Bob is also the President of the Professional Scripophily Traders Association (PSTA).

For more information on Scripophily.com®, visit https://www.scripophily.com, https://www.oldcompany.com, https://www.scripophily.net, http://www.rambo.com, http://www.bob.com or call 1-703-787-3552.

Cuba Trade Magazine article on Cuban Stock Exchange featuring Bob Kerstein, CPA,CGMA

March 2017

Bob Kerstein, CEO of Virginia-based Scripophily.com holding a Cuban stock certificate

Even years after the Revolution, even after the companies were nationalized, shareholders of the Camaguey Sugar
Company of Cuba, the Cuban Portland Cement Corporation, and the 7up Company of Cuba, Inc. continued to hold
onto–and even trade-their increasingly worthless stocks and bonds. “Cuba is interesting because the bonds were still traded after Castro took over, until [the holders] realized they could never be redeemed,” says Bob Kerstein, Virginia-based CEO of scripophily. com, a company that specializes in the sale of original stock certificates. “After Castro took over Cuba the prices were way down, but they were still hoping the U.S. would invade.” Today those stocks and bonds are experiencing a small rally. Collectors seek them as valuable mementos, like baseball cards from Cuba’s capitalist past. “It’s picked up recently because of the opening of ties and our relationship with Cuba,” says Kerstein. “These are pieces of history, and they all tell a story.”

Scripophily.com sells about two dozen different Cuban financial certificates, including ones from railways, power companies, hotels, and banks, all long gone. Prices range from $9.95 for a Camaguey Sugar Company stock certificate (100 shares!) to $295 for a 100 peso bond issued in 1882 by a railroad company in Guantanamo. Kerstein says shares from sugar companies are the most popular. Kerstein is far from alone in catering to a growing interest in collectibles from Cuba’s past, and the mystique of its memories.

Leslie Pantin, a Miami-based PR professional, is also the proprietor of the annual Cuba Nostalgia show. Last year the fair attracted 30,000 visitors who came for the sights and sounds of Cuba’s past, including a chance to buy memorabilia. “With everything that is happening in Cuba there is a fascination with Cuban things, all over the place,” says Pantin, who has put on the weekend-long show for the past 18 years. “The difference now is that when we started, there were people who just sold memorabilia, something that was in their Florida room or in their garage. Now we have a lot of people who
do this as a business.”

On Miami’s Coral Way, for example, a store called the Cuban Museum sells everything from old Havana phone books to silverware from the presidential palace (now the Museum of the Revolution). The store also sells stocks and bonds, but don’t have quite the range as Kerstein. Kerstein’s catalogue of offerings includes certificates from numerous times
and places in history, but he gets a special kick out of his Cuban collectibles, which he acquires at auctions, from private individuals, and “as we come across them.” “About 15 years ago I got a lot from an old warehouse,” says Kerstein. “Victor
Astor was big in Cuba at one time, and many of them had his name on them.” And for a mere $34.95 customers can own a 100-share stock certificate issued in 1947 by Victor, son of hotel magnate John Jacob Astor, for the Vertientes-Camaguey
Sugar Company of Cuba.

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Scripophily Dealers Offer Certificates For Education Through The Museum of American Finance

Two prominent dealers of historical stock certificates and bonds (Bob Kerstein and Scott Winslow) have joined forces to provide certificates through the Museum of American Finance for the benefit of students around the nation. At the request of teachers, the dealers will provide free certificates for classroom use in order to provide students with a first hand and up close understanding of the stock market and its history. Bob Kerstein of Scripophily.com, one of the dealers working with the museum  on the program recently held a discussion at the National Stock Certificate & Bond Show held in Washington, D.C. and provided details on the initiative. The educational aspect of the pilot program aroused a great deal of enthusiasm among a sizable gathering of dealers and collectors alike.

The Museum of American Finance is the nation’s only independent museum dedicated to preserving, exhibiting and teaching about American finance and financial history. Education in finance and its history remains as a core mission for the museum along with its preservation of important historical artifacts and documents related to the American capital markets.  “We want to be a resource for the public in the New York area and beyond”, says Chris Meyers, the Museum’s Director of Education.

For those wishing more information on the program contact Chris Meyers at the Museum, Bob Kerstein at Scripophily.com (888-786-2576) or Scott J. Winslow Associates, Inc.  (800-225-6233).

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Scripophily.com will Attend the 16th Annual International Stock and Bond Show on January 27-28, 2017 in Herndon, Virginia

Fairfax, Virginia (PRWEB)January 02, 2017

Scripophily.com LLC, the Internet’s leading buyer and seller of authentic stock and bond certificates, will be attending the 16th Annual International Stock and Bond Show in Herndon, Virginia. The show will have dealers from all over the world and is expected to be the best stock and bond event ever.

The location of the show is the Crowne Plaza Hotel near Dulles Airport on 2200 Centerville Road and located just 21 miles from Washington DC (call 800-227-6963). The show starts on Friday, January 27th to Saturday, January 28th, 2017. The show hours are from 9am to 6pm on Friday and from 9am to 4pm on Saturday.

OldCompany.com will be offering Free Old Stock Certificate Research Services ($39.95 Value) to anyone who brings in a certificate to our booth and wants to know what happened to the company. In addition, Bob Kerstein, the Old Stock Detective and founder of Scripophily.com will be offering free assessments of stock and bond certificates as to their collectability.

“Stock certificates make great gifts and make wonderful collectibles especially when they are historically relevant” said Bob Kerstein, Founder of Scripophily.com. “

Scripophily (scrip-ah-fil-ly) is the name of the hobby of collecting old stock and bond certificates. Certificate values range from a few dollars to more than $500,000 for the most unique and rare items. Tens of thousands of Scripophily buyers worldwide include casual collectors, corporate archives, business executives, museums and serious collectors. Due to the computer age, more and more stock and bonds are issued electronically which means fewer paper certificates are being issued. As a result, demand for paper certificates is increasing while supply is decreasing.

Scripophily.com has items on loan for display in the Smithsonian’s Museum of Financial History in New York. We have also partnered with the Museum of American Finance On Stock Giveaways for New York Area Teachers and Students.

Our company has been featured on CNBC, USA Today, Associated Press, Reuters, Nightline, Today Show, Baltimore Sun, and Washington Post and in many other media publications. The company also offers the World’s #1 old stock research service at OldCompany.com and offers high resolution scans for publications. Scripophily.com has over 16,500 selections on its website.

Scripophily.com /Old Company Research Service, founding member of the Old Stock Exchange, is the successor company to all material published by the Marvyn Scudders Manuals, the Robert D. Fisher Manuals, R.M. Smythe Stock Research Service, and the Herzog & Co., Inc. obsolete research services. These services have been performed continuously for over 138 years since 1880. We are the leading provider of authentic stock certificates, autographs, and old company stock research services.

Scripophily.com and Old Company Research Services was founded by Bob Kerstein (Bob.com). Bob is a CPA and CGMA, and has more than 41 years of senior management experience in the Cellular, Cable TV, Satellite, Internet, Professional Sports and Entertainment Industries. Bob is also the President of the Professional Scripophily Traders Association (PSTA).

For more information on Scripophily.com®, visit http://www.scripophily.com, http://www.oldcompany.com, http://www.scripophily.net, http://www.rambo.com, http://www.bob.com or call 1-703-787-3552

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