| 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) |