Americans have thousands of valuable certificates rotting in attics and collecting dust in old shoe boxes, experts say. For example: A Standard Oil stock certificate signed by company founders J.D ...

Pierre Bonneau grew up surrounded by old stock and bond certificates retrieved from safety deposit boxes and desk drawers by curious owners who weren't sure what to do with them.

Most certificates-especially from the period you mentioned-have only minimal value to collectors, said George H. LaBarre, whose gallery in Hollis, N.H., has an inventory of 4 million old certificates.

The Standard Oil Trust stock certificates were issued in 1882 and were printed by the Franklin Bank Note Company. The certificate was hand signed by John. D. Rockefeller, Henry Flagler and Jabez ...

The certificate, from a company ... Old stock and bond certificates usually ... Masse found that the woman — who in 1930 purchased 300 shares of North European Oil Corp. at 25 cents a share ...

In the modern world of digital investing, it's easy to forget that shares of stock used to be tangible: Companies issued paper stock certificates, possession of which proved that you, for example ...

In the modern world of digital investing, it's easy to forget that shares of stock used to be tangible: Companies issued paper stock certificates, possession of which proved that you, for example ...