The January 2012 Collectors Series Sale
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Entertainment: Loew’s and Orpheum, Three preDepression certificates for early vaudeville and movie theaters, including Loew’s Boston Theatres Co (MA), $25 shares, common stock, 1928, #885, signed by David L. Loew and Arthur M. Loew, two muses flank shield with wreath, brown, ABN; with Orpheum Circuit Inc (DE, 2), $100 shares preferred blue #S64 and $1 shares common green #B098, both 1920, allegorical woman seated with lion, ABN; all stamp and punch canceled affecting signatures, all VF+. [3] Est. 80-120
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Famous Players-Lasky Corp (NY), 100 $100 shares common stock, specimen, 19__, #0000, bald eagle over company name, logo at left of Paramount Pictures, logo at right of Artcraft Pictures, green and black, ABN, vertical fold, about EF. Est. 100-150
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Film Group Includes American Motion Picture Corp (DE), $100 shs, 1924, eagle on summit, blue (4) and orange (2); Columbia Pictures Corp (NY), $5 shs, 1961-5, famous Columbia logo, brown (23) and purple (1), ABN; Continental Film Co 1914; Jean Gabriel Productions Inc 1923; Paramount Publix Corp 2/40ths scrip, 1932, Paramount and Publix logos, brown, ABN, with 1933 Paramount Pictures Distributing Co and Fox West Coast Theatres Corp agreement, San Francisco, 40 pages, orange cover, top right of cover clipped off; Pathe Exchange shs specimen and $1000 bond specimen (bound together) 1921 orange; Pathe Film Corp 1936; Renco Film Co (DE) 1921; Star Film Co 1917; United Artists Theatre Circuit, Inc (MD), 1930-55, semi-nude woman with grapes, common shs blue (3) and orange (3); Urban Motion Picture Industries Inc 1922 signed by Charles Urban (2); and more; VF-EF. [57] Est. 150-200
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Gloria Swanson Group Quartet of stocks issued to the film goddess: Fisk Systems Inc (NV), 1980, eagle with arrows, green, Forged Carbides Inc (DE) 1942 green, and Silver Creek Precision Corp 1964 (2), both signed “Gloria Davey” (her married name at the time) on verso, eagle on rock, orange; with a reproduction photograph of Swanson and printed biography; all items EF. [4] Est. 200-300
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International Television Corp (DE), 10-cent shs, 1948, woman reclines with lion, red-brown, soft folds, VF+-EF. [24] Est. 200-300
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Kolster Radio Corp (DE), 10 shs common stock temp certificate, 1929 green; with certificates of deposit for common stock all issued to sugar magnate Rudolph Spreckels, 1930 red (17); and 100 shs, 1931, hand holds electric bolts, brown (5); good VFEF. [23] Est. 150-200
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Wisconsin Cabinet and Panel Co (NJ), 100 shs, 1917, #11, issued to and signed on recto by Thomas A Edison as president and again on verso, eagle with shield, beehive, black and gold, stub reattached, punch cancels through recto signature, pen cancel through verso signature, VF+. (photo) Est. 750-1,000
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Yankton Portland Cement Co (IL), $100 shs, 1893, eagle and shield, black and orange, VF+-EF. [70] Est. 150-200
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Canadian Edison Phonographs Ltd (Ontario), $100 shs, unissued, 19__, #22 and higher, ornate border, black, EF. [62] Est. 150-200
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De Forest Radio Company (DE), Capital Stock certificate, 1929, orange, printed de Forest signature flanked by allegorical figures, HBN, VF+. Est. 70-100
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