https://scripotime.com/ Original articles, research and news about scripophily — historic stock and bond certificates — from the ScripoTime community. en Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://scripotime.com/publications/hot-for-cocoa-geoeconomic-landscape-west-africa https://scripotime.com/publications/hot-for-cocoa-geoeconomic-landscape-west-africa Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT noreply@scripotime.com (Lynette Hew) History Shares Africa France Certificate Art Market Trends Two share certificates from Plantations Réunies de l'Ouest Africain — a light 1928 issue from Abidjan and a heavier post-1945 CFA issue from Gagnoa — share the same engraved map but tell two very different macroeconomic stories: colonial confidence giving way to controlled consolidation. https://scripotime.com/publications/pour-some-sugar-on-the-map https://scripotime.com/publications/pour-some-sugar-on-the-map Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT noreply@scripotime.com (Lynette) History Shares Certificate Art Latin America Mid-20th Century A 1924 sugar mill share certificate from Compañía Azucarera del Paraíso Novillero turns cartography into industrial strategy — mapping rail, river and steamship routes across eastern Mexico. https://scripotime.com/publications/the-chaplin-studios-aktie-filmhistorie-auf-papier https://scripotime.com/publications/the-chaplin-studios-aktie-filmhistorie-auf-papier Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT noreply@scripotime.com (T.K) History Shares United States Certificate Art Entertainment In 1918 Charlie Chaplin founded The Chaplin Studios Inc. with 2,000 shares at 100 dollars each. Only a handful survive — and just three carry his triple signature. https://scripotime.com/publications/scripofrance-and-numistoria-join-as-affiliated-dealer https://scripotime.com/publications/scripofrance-and-numistoria-join-as-affiliated-dealer Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT noreply@scripotime.com (Adam Jorand) News Europe France ScripoTime is pleased to announce a new partnership with Numistoria and ScripoFrance, two leading platforms in historic paper collectibles. https://scripotime.com/publications/art-deco-bonds-and-shares-weritz-collection https://scripotime.com/publications/art-deco-bonds-and-shares-weritz-collection Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT noreply@scripotime.com (Jürgen Weritz) History Bonds Shares Certificate Art Certificate Evolution Europe France Germany A guided tour of the Jürgen Weritz archive: how interwar corporations, municipalities and industrial firms translated the geometric optimism of Art Deco onto the surface of their share certificates and bonds — adapted from the Art Deco Collection journal. https://scripotime.com/publications/ibss-2026-02-cuba-local-sugar-companies-scripophily https://scripotime.com/publications/ibss-2026-02-cuba-local-sugar-companies-scripophily Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT noreply@scripotime.com (International Bond & Share Society) History Bonds Shares IBSS Archives Cuba Latin America Sugar Certificate Art Michael Fraikin traces the locally-incorporated Cuban sugar companies from the colonial boom of the 1850s through the Republican era, the post-WWI bust and the Castro revolution — illustrated with rare bonds and shares from American Bank Note, Hamilton Bank Note and Spanish-style local printers. https://scripotime.com/publications/roebling-niagara-railroad-suspension-bridge https://scripotime.com/publications/roebling-niagara-railroad-suspension-bridge Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT noreply@scripotime.com (Bernhard Wilde) History Bonds Shares Railroads North America United States Certificate Art How John A. Roebling built the world's first working railroad suspension bridge across the Niagara Gorge — and the rare stocks, bonds and banknotes that record it. https://scripotime.com/publications/financial-history-roots-of-prosperity https://scripotime.com/publications/financial-history-roots-of-prosperity Tue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT noreply@scripotime.com (Scott Winslow) History North America United States Wall Street in 1789 — a view of old City Hall, with the famed Buttonwood Tree, the meeting place of America's earliest stockbrokers. https://scripotime.com/publications/george-h-labarre-joins-scripotime-as-affiliated-dealer https://scripotime.com/publications/george-h-labarre-joins-scripotime-as-affiliated-dealer Fri, 02 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT noreply@scripotime.com (ScripoTime Editorial) News North America United States ScripoTime is proud to partner with George H. LaBarre Galleries, one of the most established names in historic paper collectibles. Members enjoy a 20% discount. https://scripotime.com/publications/brian-hanly-joins-scripotime-as-affiliated-dealer https://scripotime.com/publications/brian-hanly-joins-scripotime-as-affiliated-dealer Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT noreply@scripotime.com (ScripoTime Editorial) News North America United States Partnership with Ticker History — one of the top U.S. dealers in vintage stock and bond certificates, founded by collector Brian Hanly and based in Tribeca, New York. https://scripotime.com/publications/marcel-duchamp-and-the-1924-monte-carlo-bond https://scripotime.com/publications/marcel-duchamp-and-the-1924-monte-carlo-bond Wed, 09 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT noreply@scripotime.com (Reynaud Gilles) Bonds Certificate Art France Europe In 1924 Marcel Duchamp issued 30 fictional bonds under the name Roulette de Monte-Carlo. They were more than just collectibles — they were art. https://scripotime.com/publications/alberto-puppo-joins-scripotime-as-affiliated-dealer https://scripotime.com/publications/alberto-puppo-joins-scripotime-as-affiliated-dealer Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT noreply@scripotime.com (ScripoTime Editorial) News Europe Italy Partnership with ScripoMarket.com, the editorial platform of Scripo SRL — founded by Alberto Puppo, a well-known figure in scripophily who combines IT innovation with high-quality cultural content. https://scripotime.com/publications/ibss-121-sebron-niagara-falls-vignette-stocks-bonds https://scripotime.com/publications/ibss-121-sebron-niagara-falls-vignette-stocks-bonds Mon, 01 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT noreply@scripotime.com (International Bond & Share Society) History Bonds Shares IBSS Archives United States North America Certificate Art Certificate Evolution Bernhard Wilde follows a single image — Hippolyte Sebron's 1850s painting of Niagara Falls — from a French canvas through Friedrich Salathé's aquatint and onto more than sixty bank notes, stocks and bonds engraved by Danforth Wright, National Bank Note, American Bank Note and Western Bank Note over 125 years. https://scripotime.com/publications/ibss101-coxs-corner-24-race-to-the-bottom https://scripotime.com/publications/ibss101-coxs-corner-24-race-to-the-bottom Fri, 15 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT noreply@scripotime.com (International Bond & Share Society) History Publications IBSS Archives Collecting Dealing & Selling Regular Column A practical opinion column urging professional dealers to differentiate themselves from amateur online sellers — better scans, tight descriptions, independent web presence — drawing on the author's database of 637,000+ confirmed certificate sales. Useful evergreen advice, though more market-commentary than research. https://scripotime.com/publications/ibss101-advertising-securities https://scripotime.com/publications/ibss101-advertising-securities Fri, 15 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT noreply@scripotime.com (International Bond & Share Society) History Publications IBSS Archives Germany Ephemera & Oddities Advertising Banknotes A themed survey of 'securities' that were never real investments at all: German firms (Carl Küchler, Hochlehnert & Co., Hartungsche Buchdruckerei, the Metropol-Theater) and a Nash Buffalo Corp. message that printed advertisements in the form of stock certificates and even on a 1922 10,000-Mark Reichsbank note. A fun, offbeat collecting niche. https://scripotime.com/publications/ibss101-saudi-arabia-on-a-warship-sams https://scripotime.com/publications/ibss101-saudi-arabia-on-a-warship-sams Fri, 15 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT noreply@scripotime.com (International Bond & Share Society) History Publications IBSS Archives Mining Saudi Arabia Bahamas Collector Stories A first-person collecting story: a $11 eBay purchase of a 1948 Saudi Arabian Mining Syndicate share leads, six years and a blog post later, to contact with the daughter of the mine's 1940 shaft foreman — weaving the certificate, the Mahd adh Dhahab 'Cradle of Gold' mine, and the wartime fate of the SS Exochorda/USS Harry Lee into one narrative. https://scripotime.com/publications/ibss101-panama-canal-compagnie-universelle https://scripotime.com/publications/ibss101-panama-canal-compagnie-universelle Fri, 15 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT noreply@scripotime.com (International Bond & Share Society) History Publications IBSS Archives France Panama Canal Infrastructure Finance Financial Scandals The financial history of de Lesseps' ill-fated French Panama Canal company — concession origins, founder vs ordinary shares, the engineering and disease disasters, the largest private investment failure in history, and the subsequent US takeover. Authoritative economic narrative tied to the share illustrated. https://scripotime.com/publications/ibss101-french-slave-trading-company-assiente https://scripotime.com/publications/ibss101-french-slave-trading-company-assiente Fri, 15 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT noreply@scripotime.com (International Bond & Share Society) History Publications IBSS Archives France Early Shares (Pre-1800) Slave Trade History Rarities The discovery and analysis of a 1704 vellum share in La Compagnie Royale de l'Assiente, the French royal slave-trading monopoly created by Louis XIV and Philip V of Spain — described as the second-oldest known French share and a sombre, historically significant rarity, bearing eight original handwritten signatures. Combines provenance, history and document analysis. https://scripotime.com/publications/ibss101-palaces-of-the-railroads-stations https://scripotime.com/publications/ibss101-palaces-of-the-railroads-stations Fri, 15 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT noreply@scripotime.com (International Bond & Share Society) History Publications IBSS Archives Us Railroads Architecture Bank-Note Engraving Vignettes A connoisseur's tour of America's great railroad stations as they appear engraved on bonds and shares — Penn Station, Grand Central, St. Louis, Chicago, Boston South Station, Reading Terminal and Cincinnati Union Terminal — highlighting the etching work of American Bank Note's William J. Brown. Strong visual subject, expert authorship, evergreen. https://scripotime.com/publications/ibss101-grafton-brown-lithographed-mining-stocks https://scripotime.com/publications/ibss101-grafton-brown-lithographed-mining-stocks Fri, 15 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT noreply@scripotime.com (International Bond & Share Society) History Publications IBSS Archives Us Mining Lithography & Engraving California History Printers A scholarly, story-driven feature on the 1860s–1880s rivalry between San Francisco's two leading stock-certificate lithographers, Britton & Rey and Grafton Tyler Brown — the latter a free-born African American artist who 'passed' as white to build California's first Black-owned state-contracting lithography business. Rich in named certificates and printing history; written by a professional historian. Highly evergreen and original. https://scripotime.com/publications/bss0279-royal-bulgarian-government-loans https://scripotime.com/publications/bss0279-royal-bulgarian-government-loans Thu, 15 Feb 1979 00:00:00 GMT noreply@scripotime.com (International Bond & Share Society) History Publications IBSS Archives Bulgaria Government Loans Reference A detailed reference survey of Royal Bulgarian Government loans (1892–1928), the country's debt and settlement record, and issue/outstanding figures for the League of Nations Settlement and Stabilisation Loans and earlier Gold Loans. https://scripotime.com/publications/bss0279-stockton-and-darlington-railway https://scripotime.com/publications/bss0279-stockton-and-darlington-railway Thu, 15 Feb 1979 00:00:00 GMT noreply@scripotime.com (International Bond & Share Society) History Publications IBSS Archives Great Britain Railways Early Shares Cover Article The cover certificate explained: a Stockton & Darlington Railway certificate (likely issued under the 1858 Amalgamation Act) whose vignette shows the Skerne Bridge from the railway's famous 1825 opening, with the history of the world's first public steam railway. https://scripotime.com/publications/bss0279-russian-bonds-overview https://scripotime.com/publications/bss0279-russian-bonds-overview Thu, 15 Feb 1979 00:00:00 GMT noreply@scripotime.com (International Bond & Share Society) History Publications IBSS Archives Russia Overview Defaulted Bonds An overview of why Tsarist Russian bonds make a rich collecting field — Europe's pre-revolution eagerness to lend, long redemption periods, multi-currency options, and the loans left unredeemed by the Revolution. https://scripotime.com/publications/bss0279-chinese-8pc-treasury-notes-vickers https://scripotime.com/publications/bss0279-chinese-8pc-treasury-notes-vickers Thu, 15 Feb 1979 00:00:00 GMT noreply@scripotime.com (International Bond & Share Society) History Publications IBSS Archives China Aviation Treasury Notes The 1919 Vickers contract to supply Vimy and Avro aircraft to China, financed by £1.8m of Chinese Government Treasury Notes placed in London via Kleinwort — the background to the collectible 'Vickers Issue' notes. https://scripotime.com/publications/bss0279-denver-rio-grande-western-rr https://scripotime.com/publications/bss0279-denver-rio-grande-western-rr Thu, 15 Feb 1979 00:00:00 GMT noreply@scripotime.com (International Bond & Share Society) History Publications IBSS Archives Usa Railways Narrow Gauge A collector's certificate of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway (incorporated 1870), conceived as a narrow-gauge line, with notes on the company's original name. https://scripotime.com/publications/bss0279-american-express-merchants-union https://scripotime.com/publications/bss0279-american-express-merchants-union Thu, 15 Feb 1979 00:00:00 GMT noreply@scripotime.com (International Bond & Share Society) History Publications IBSS Archives Usa Express Companies Wells Fargo The 1850 formation of American Express from the merger of Wells, Butterfield and Livingston-Fargo companies, the 1852 birth of Wells Fargo for California express business, and the 1868 American Merchants Union Express merger. https://scripotime.com/publications/bss0179-banco-central-mexicano-warrants https://scripotime.com/publications/bss0179-banco-central-mexicano-warrants Mon, 15 Jan 1979 00:00:00 GMT noreply@scripotime.com (International Bond & Share Society) History Publications IBSS Archives Mexico Banking Share Warrants A note on the Banco Central Mexicano (founded 1899 with Deutsche Bank and J.P. Morgan involvement), its unusual 100-peso interest-bearing share warrants, and its disappearance with the 1910 Revolution. https://scripotime.com/publications/bss0179-railway-certificates-oldest-in-collection https://scripotime.com/publications/bss0179-railway-certificates-oldest-in-collection Mon, 15 Jan 1979 00:00:00 GMT noreply@scripotime.com (International Bond & Share Society) History Publications IBSS Archives Great Britain Usa Railways Early Shares A collector surveys candidates for the oldest railway certificates — an 1829 Liverpool & Manchester vellum share, 1830s American railroads printed by Rawdon Wright & Hatch, and the Baltimore & Ohio — with observations on their vignettes. https://scripotime.com/publications/bss0179-brazilian-railway-company https://scripotime.com/publications/bss0179-brazilian-railway-company Mon, 15 Jan 1979 00:00:00 GMT noreply@scripotime.com (International Bond & Share Society) History Publications IBSS Archives Brazil Railways Defaulted Bonds The corporate and repayment history of the Brazilian Railway Company (incorporated Maine, 1906), the 1940 Brazilian seizure of assets, and the protracted bondholder restitution through to a final 1974 payment. https://scripotime.com/publications/bss0179-chinese-government-bonds-notes https://scripotime.com/publications/bss0179-chinese-government-bonds-notes Mon, 15 Jan 1979 00:00:00 GMT noreply@scripotime.com (International Bond & Share Society) History Publications IBSS Archives China Reference Explanatory notes for collectors of Chinese external loans: tax-free status, the change of authorising authority from Imperial Edict to National Assembly resolution, and the meaning of terms such as 'likin' and 'Tsungli-Yamen'.