Autographs |
Valuing autographs (S) |
Who was Henry Oppenheimer? (U) |
Buying and selling |
Fully-loaded costs of selling (on eBay), The (U) |
German theme (auctions, catalogs), The (U) |
Mail order-these days (S) |
Photos and descriptions don't agree (U) |
Selling (U) |
Taking advantage of market inefficiency (S) |
Buying and selling, rarity |
Are "rare" eBay items really rare? (U) |
Rarity as a sales tool (U) |
Buying and selling, shipping |
Bubble wrap warning (U) |
How to ship certificates to buyers (U) |
Inadequate certificate packaging (B) |
Celebrities |
Fisk, Assassination of Colonel James Fisk, Jr (B) |
Harriman, Excellent Harriman book (U) |
Minor celebrities (U) |
Puck Magazine cartoon with railroad celebrities (U) |
Vanderbilt, William Henry - article in The Daily Graphic (B) |
Certificate features |
Are numbers of shares important? (U) |
Attack of the specimens (U) |
Certificate colors (U) |
Faked issuance (B) |
Features that deserve separate listings (B) |
Fifty. No twenty. No, Fifty (curious handwriting) (B) |
Railroad system maps on certificates (B) |
Round lot shares (B) |
State seals on stocks and bonds (U) |
What can we learn from serial numbers? (B) |
Certificate features, cancellations |
Cancellations (S) |
How do you know if certificates were cancelled? (B) |
How much do cancellations matter? (B) |
Never-discussed cancellation type (U) |
Certificate features, facsimile signatures |
Facsimile vs hand signatures (U) |
How to identify facsimile signatures (U) |
When did companies first use facsimile signatures? (U) |
Certificate types |
Classifying certificates by the rules (S) |
Dutch certificates (U) |
Generic certificates (U) |
Specimens and proofs (U) |
Certificate types, bonds |
Digging deeper in bearer and registered bonds (B) |
Flexibility of bearer and registered bonds, The (B) |
New York state revenues on bonds (B) |
Terminology - coupon bonds vs bearer bonds (B) |
Understanding bonds (U) |
Certificate types, equipment trusts |
Equipment trust certificates (ETCs) needed (U) |
Equipment trusts (U) |
Equipment trusts - I beg for help! (U) |
List of known equipment trusts (U) |
Certificate types, stocks |
Assessable shares (S) |
Assessable stock (U) |
Fully paid and non-assessable (B) |
United Traction Co & Electric Railway of North America (fantasy stock) (U) |
Companies |
Adirondack Company bond payout (B) |
Great West Exposition Train (B) |
More than you want to know about the Western Maryland (U) |
Questionable companies (mysteries) (U) |
Railroad company members of Dow Jones averages (U) |
Researching company end dates (S) |
State corporation listings (U) |
"Tap" railroads (B) |
Famous vignettes |
The Crossing (B) |
Express Train, The (U) |
View at North Bend, Ohio (B) |
Gold bond scams |
Gold bonds as investments (part 2) (U) |
Uncancelled gold bonds as investments? (part 1) (U) |
Hobby, general |
Arguing against jargon (B) |
Collecting software (U) |
Collectors and dealers (U) |
Communication between collectors, dealers, and the world (S) |
Confessions of certificate collectors (S) |
Cooperation (S) |
Cycles in the hobby (U) |
Do buyers have the advantage now? (S) |
Finding new certificates (S) |
Flyspeck Scripophily (S) |
Fun! Good for the body, soul and hobby (S) |
Hucksterism in our hobby (B) |
International Bond and Share Society back in biz (U) |
Join the International Bond & Share Society (B) |
Keep your hobby exciting (S) |
Leverage your hobby (S) |
Loving the hobby (S) |
More catalogs please (S) |
Necessity of cultivating beginners, The (U) |
New IBSS booklet (U) |
Opportunities for rarities (U) |
Origin of the word 'Scripophily' (B) |
Play fair with your heirs (liquidation of collection) (U) |
Pondering the big hoard (S) |
Pros and cons of donating collections (S) |
Rarity, the sacred cow (U) |
Replies about the role of rarity (U) |
Sharing information and knowledge (S) |
Sharing your approach to this hobby (S) |
Simple measurement for rare, scarce and common (U) |
Solving problems in the hobby (S) |
Solving problems with collectibles (S) |
Specialization in Our Hobby (S) |
Standing on the shoulders of giants (S) |
Supply, demand and rarity, part 1 (U) |
Supply, demand and rarity, part 2 (U) |
The more things change (S) |
Twisted path, A (S) |
Understanding the "collecting gene" (B) |
We're not getting any younger (S) |
What's with Canadian certificates? (U) |
What does the word "rare" mean? (B) |
What drives our hobby? (S) |
What is your opinion on selling coupons? (U) |
When will certificate prices turn around? (U) |
Why my focus on beginners in this issue? (U) |
Why specialize? (U) |
Why specialize? (S) |
Illustrations |
Back of printing plate (U) |
Oppenheimer, Henry autograph (U) |
Repetitive underprints to foil counterfeting (U) |
Illustrations, bond coupons |
Blue Ridge Rail Road coupon (U) |
Duluth Huron & Denver Railroad coupon (U) |
Missouri Kansas & Texas Railway coupon (U) |
Seaboard Air Line Railway coupon (U) |
Illustrations, celebrities |
Billings, Frederick Billings (U) |
Clews, Henry (U) |
Drew, Daniel (U) |
Fisk, James murder (U) |
Gould, Jay (U) |
Huntington, Collis Potter (U) |
Sage, Russell (U) |
Stanford, Leland (U) |
Vanderbilt, Cornelius Commodore (at age 57) (U) |
Vanderbilt, William Henry (U) |
Illustrations, certificates, bonds |
Baltimore Transit Co (U) |
Blue Ridge Railroad (U) |
Blue Ridge Railroad (U) |
Chicago Saginaw & Canada Railroad (U) |
Chicago & Northwestern Railway (U) |
Cincinnati New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railway ETC (U) |
Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago & St Louis Railway (U) |
Cleveland & Wheeling Railroad cognovit (U) |
Dawson Railway handwritten (U) |
Duluth Huron & Denver Railroad (U) |
Erie & Union Railroad (U) |
Illinois Central (U) |
Lehigh Valley Railroad (U) |
Prescott & Arizona Central Railway (U) |
Selma Marion & Memphis Rail Road (U) |
Southern Railway (U) |
Southern Railway Equipment Trust (U) |
Western Maryland Railway ETC (U) |
Illustrations, certificates, other certificates |
Chicago Rock Island & Pacific Dutch certificate (U) |
Dutch Union Pacific Corp certificate (U) |
Gary & Interurban Railway Co certificate of deposit (U) |
Missouri Kansas & Texas Railway proof (U) |
Pacific Railway Improvement subscription receipt (U) |
San Lorenzo Rail Road assessment receipt (U) |
Illustrations, certificates, stocks |
Arkansas Southern Railroad Co (U) |
Automatic Flagman Co (U) |
Baltimore & Southwestern Railroad (U) |
Barnwell & Searchlight Railway Co (U) |
Bergen & Dundee Railroad Co (U) |
Broad Street Subway Railway Co (U) |
Chicago River & Indiana Railroad (U) |
Colorado Railway Lith & Power Co (U) |
Credit Mobilier (U) |
Ferrocarril Michoacano del Sur (U) |
Little Miami Railroad Co (U) |
Monongahela Power & Railway (U) |
Northern Pacific Railroad (U) |
Panama Rail Road Co (U) |
Panama Railroad (U) |
Pennsylvania Railroad sub variety (U) |
Pullman Company (U) |
Pullman Inc (U) |
Pullman Palace Car Co (U) |
Rock Island Memphis Terminal Railway Co (U) |
Searcy & Des Arc Rail Road Co (U) |
Transitional Penn Central Corp (U) |
Western Jamaica Connecting Railway (U) |
Western Maryland Railroad (U) |
Woodruff Sleeping & Parlor Coach Co (U) |
Yreka Railroad Co (U) |
Illustrations, corporate seals |
Embossed Western Maryland Railway corporate seals (U) |
Engraved Western Maryland Railway corporate seal (U) |
Illustrations, drawings |
Drawing of Rio Grande Southern caboose (U) |
Engraver's hammer drawing (U) |
Engraving tools drawing (U) |
Judge magazine cartoon w/ Gould, Vanderbilt, Drew (U) |
Illustrations, logos |
ABNCo monogram (U) |
ABNCo script-style (U) |
Goes Lithographing Co (U) |
Miller Train Control Co (U) |
Illustrations, shipping-related |
Bubble wrap warning (U) |
Stay-flat mailer (U) |
Illustrations, state seals |
Colorado state seals (U) |
Pennsylvania state seal and coat of arms (U) |
Illustrations, vignettes, famous vignettes |
'The Crossing' (B) |
Baltimore & Ohio's famous Novelty train (U) |
Classic Standing Liberty (U) |
Express Train by Nathaniel Currier (U) |
Express Train lithograph (U) |
Reapers, The (U) |
Train of Cars (U) |
Illustrations, vignettes, locomotive stacks |
Diamond and Congden locomotive stacks (U) |
Funnel and balloon locomotive stacks (U) |
Mushroom locomotive stacks (U) |
Straight locomotive stacks (U) |
Illustrations, vignettes, locomotives |
New York New Haven & Hartford locomotive (U) |
New York New Haven & Hartford Railroad locomotive (U) |
Open cab loco(B) (U) |
Porter & Co 4-wheel locomotive (U) |
Reading Co locomotive (U) |
Union Pacific M-10000 locomotive vignette detail (U) |
Western Pacific Railroad locomotive (U) |
Illustrations, vignettes, miscellaneous |
Cupid (U) |
Griffin (U) |
Popular owl (U) |
Share medallion vignettes (U) |
Sphinx (U) |
Unusual serpent (U) |
Illustrations, vignettes, rail-related |
Flagman beside locomotive (U) |
Hasten the Vigilantly Watched Railroad (U) |
Large locomotive passes track workers (U) |
Lithographed allegorical figures (U) |
Lithographed depot at junction of two lines (U) |
Lithographed open cab loco (U) |
Monongahela Power & Railway streetcar (U) |
Monongahela Power & Railway streetcar (U) |
Niagara River Gorge (U) |
Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Railway vignette and detail (U) |
Popular survey crew on hilltop (U) |
Surveying track alignment vignette detail (U) |
Trackworkers and head-on locomotive (U) |
Trackworkers ballasting vignette detail (U) |
Trackworkers carrying rail vignette detail (U) |
Trackworkers gauging rails vignette detail (U) |
Trackworkers placing rails vignette detail (U) |
Train on Miller Train Control Co stock (U) |
Western Maryland Railway train (U) |
Western Maryland vignette and detail (U) |
Wooding Railway Warning Device Co (U) |
Illustrations, vignettes, structures |
Delaware Car Works engraving (U) |
Grand Central Terminal (U) |
New York Stock Exchange (U) |
Penn Station (U) |
Reading Terminal Headhouse (U) |
Wason Car Manufacturing Co engraving (U) |
Imaging |
How to patch (stitch) images of large bonds (U) |
Imaging Certificates (S) |
Problems scanning bonds? (U) |
Scanning and sharpening (U) |
Scanning and sharpening examples (U) |
Scanning certificates (S) |
Scanning certificates remains popular topic (U) |
Scanning large certificates in pieces (U) |
Peripheral documents |
Marion Savages' plea for more money (B) |
Preservation |
Preserving certificates; acidity in paper (U) |
Restoration and repair (S) |
Pricing |
A catalogers' paradox (U) |
Abandon the race to the bottom (S) |
Do I adjust prices when items go unsold? (U) |
Funny thing about valuing collectibles, The (S) |
How important are price estimates? (S) |
I do not change price estimates with every auction (U) |
Let's discuss price trends (U) |
Let's really compare sales prices (U) |
Online auction prices (U) |
Price disparities (U) |
Price trends (U) |
Race for the bottom (S) |
Rarity is a bad way of estimating prices (S) |
Reality returns to gold bond prices (U) |
Recording eBay prices - my process (U) |
Taking the pulse of our hobby (S) |
Upside down is the new normal (S) |
What's it worth? (B) |
What are collectibles worth when they don't sell? (B) |
What is something worth when it doesn't sell (S) |
Printing and engraving |
American Bank Note Co security printing (B) |
Engraver of Baltimore & Ohio certificates (B) |
Major printing companies (U) |
Project, early catalog numbers |
Lehigh Valley Railroad catalog numbers (U) |
Little Miami Rail Road catalog numbers (U) |
Pennsylvania Railroad catalog numbers (U) |
Penobscot & Kennebec bond catalog numbers (U) |
Pullman Co catalog numbers (U) |
Union Pacific stock catalog numbers (U) |
Project, general |
Abbreviating Cox catalog numbers (U) |
Assigning certificates to correct companies (S) |
Case for serial numbers, The (U) |
Certificate varieties (U) |
Certificates from North American coal companies (S) |
Collecting serial numbers (U) |
Discovering new varieties (U) |
Do you collect certificates from south of the U.S.? (U) |
Example of how sub-varieties are discovered (U) |
How many more certificates are left to find? (U) |
How to send info (U) |
How to send information (U) |
I find it amazing (adding more certificates than ever) (U) |
If I can do it - you can too (S) |
Information from eBay (U) |
Information need for Union Pacific Corp stocks (U) |
Issue of privacy (U) |
Lack of time forcing changes (U) |
Many new specimens appeared in 2004 (U) |
Miscellaneous messages from contributors (U) |
Myth of 100% reliable email (U) |
Needing "common" certificates (U) |
New certificates (U) |
New certificates keep appearing (U) |
Next big endeavor: complete railroad names (U) |
Process of cataloging (U) |
Railroad names (U) |
Reporting unlisted certificates (U) |
Serial numbers adding up (U) |
Small collections (crucial to project) (U) |
Speaking of errors (U) |
State names for the next edition and online (U) |
Status of the Coxrail Coal Database (S) |
Suggestions from readers (U) |
Tell me what I'm missing! (U) |
Thank you (to contributors) (U) |
Want to help solve some mysteries? (U) |
What kinds of serial numbers do I want? (U) |
Where do new varieties come from? (B) |
Where does new information come from? (B) |
Rail-related |
Reuben Wells purpose-built locomotive (B) |