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Pastimes : Old Stock Certificates any collectors out there -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: KLP who wrote (66)	3/19/2006 9:54:53 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70

I first got interested in the stock market in 1962, when I was 13 and the average daily volume on the NYSE was 2 or 3 million shares per day. My first stock purchase, on the advice of my broker, was 2 shares of Peoples, Gas, Light and Coke Company. Total purchase price: $32. Those were the days when the brokers actually sent the certificates to you. I can still remember how excited I was when the certificate finally arrived in the mail. I don't think that the certificates will ever have any enormous dollar value. They do have sentimental value. I do have a certificate from Samuel Insull's old holding company. I picked it up at an antique show. I had it framed and it sits on my wall as a reminder that things are not always what they are supposed to be. The Pixar film cells would probably be a good investment.