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post #16 of 23

10/21/11 at 9:01am

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hmmm, unless you have an awfully large powder room, maybe more like a den?

Or maybe the entire house.

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10/21/11 at 2:43pm

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hmmm, unless you have an awfully large powder room, maybe more like a den?

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10/21/11 at 6:01pm

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Ultimately I've decided to frame nine of them and hang then three wide by three high (or perhaps 4 high w/ 12 in total).

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10/24/11 at 5:07pm

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Collecting the certificates seems like a nice hobby. Many of them are beautiful. My dad use to buy tons of "old west checks" from banks that popped up during the railroad boom.

I agree. Every once in a while a client who is setting up an estate plan will come with a stack of stock certificates that he or she has held for years (or sometimes decades). I'm always struck at how nice many of them are to look at--definitely frame-able in their own way.

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10/28/11 at 7:59am

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Ultimately I've decided to frame nine of them and hang then three wide by three high (or perhaps 4 high w/ 12 in total).

did you decide which ones to frame?

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10/28/11 at 8:15am

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The first I've purchased is a canceled certificate dated 1877 for stock in the Mobile and Ohio Rail Road Company.

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10/28/11 at 8:15am

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Ultimately I've decided to frame nine of them and hang then three wide by three high (or perhaps 4 high w/ 12 in total).

Cool idea. I may have to copy.

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11/9/11 at 2:43pm

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Just got the fourth certificate. So far they are as follows:

Mobile and Ohio Rail Road Company (pictured above, family once owned 300K shares)
Baltimore and Ohio Rail-Road Company dated 1887
Packard Motor Car Company dated 1929
Pan American World Airways, Inc. dated 1974 (am looking for a better vintage)