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A stock certificate is a legal document printed on paper that represents equity ownership in a company. With ornate borders and usually bearing an illustration that is related to the company's business, such as an airplane, they are printed on bond paper from a finely engraved metal plate. When a stock is redeemed a perforated cancellation mark is made and it then becomes null and void as a financial instrument. Today, stocks are issued electronically and this has increasingly made stock certificates items of interest to collectors. This area of collecting is called scripophily, a combination of the English word "scrip" meaning ownership right and the Greek word "philos" meaning love.
This image was posted on May 09, 2018.
This post mentions the following things involved with the SFO Museum collection:
Pan American Airways.
It is related to
Pan American World Airways (the company)
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