Scripophily.com Old Company Research
Successor to R,M. Smythe & Co., Inc.'s Obsolete Security
Research Business founded in 1880
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WASHINGTON, DC (December 12, 2011)
Scripophily.com acquired the
R.M. Smythe
Stock & Bond Research Business from Herzog & Co., Inc.
(formerly R. M. Smythe & Co., Inc). The transaction includes all
copyrights on obsolete research reference material published by
Smythe including various editions of the Robert D. Fisher Manuals of
Valuable and Worthless Securities, as well as the Marvyn Scudder
Manuals. Also included are related files, reference materials and
portions of the Smythe Special Library used in the Smythe’s Obsolete
Research activities which began in 1880. |
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Scripophily.com Old
Company Research
is the World's #1 Stock & Bond Research Firm. We'll help you
find information on your stock and bond certificates and
then tell you how to redeem them. |
Scripophily.com Old Company
Research is the Successor to R,M. Smythe & Co., Inc.'s Obsolete
Security Research Business founded in 1880
which has been researching inactive, unlisted and obscure securities
for over 131 years.
When we receive an inquiry about a particular company or issue, our
research professionals turn to
Scripophily.com Old Company
Research's
extensive, records on more than one million U.S. and foreign
companies. We also publish, in hardcover the Robert D. Fisher
Manuals of Valuable and Worthless Securities-the world's most
authoritative publications in the field.
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Every inquiry generates a produced report detailing the
company's history regarding name changes, mergers,
bankruptcies, predecessor and successor companies. If the
compnay did survive, we will provide you contact information
so you can determine whether your securities have market
value today and how you can realize it. If your certificates
have no value as redeemable securities, we may be interested
in purchasing them as a collectible. |
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Our clients are attorneys, corporations, institutions, brokers,
banks executors, and individual stock and bond certificate holders
worldwide.
If you are curious about certificates you hold, let us investigate
their history-and value-for you. Just provide information about your
certificates by selecting the order form below, or send a photocopy
of the face of the certificate to R.M. Smythe, Securities Research
Department - Desk 4, 26 Broadway, Suite 271, New York, NY
10004-1701, and let our researchers go to work for you. If you wish,
you may print the order form and fax or mail it to R.M. Smythe. The
fee is just $75 for each U.S. or foreign company. Ask about our
discount for large quantities and institutions.
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OUR
SERVICE
For a Flat Fee of $39.95 per company, we will serve as your Old
Stock Detective
SM and
will provide you with a brief profile of old companies whose
original identities have been lost due to a change in name, merger,
acquisition, dissolution, reorganization, bankruptcy or charter
cancellation. If it is determined the certificates have no
investment value, we may be interested in buying the certificate as
a collectible. Our affiliated company, Scripophily.com, is the
World's #1 buyer and seller of Stock and Bond certificates.
If we do not find any
information regarding the old company being researched, you
are not charged for our service or time.
In fact, we don't even charge you until our research is completed.
If you are interested in using our service,
Click Here
to go to our secure server for ordering instructions to pay by
credit card or by Paypal or you can use the blue form below. If you
rather pay by check or send us your credit card information by mail,
you can print out our
Fax and Mail Order Form by Clicking Here.
Old Stock Research Service - Our old
company research process usually takes anywhere
from several days up to three weeks once payment
method had been received. If you would like to
use this service, please go to the bottom of
this page and complete the information to sign
up on our secure server. At a minimum, we will
need the company's name, state of incorporation,
and the date the certificate was issued. Once
you complete the form below please click on add
to shopping cart. If you have more than one
company to research, please follow the same
process. If you would rather order by mail or
fax, or you can print out our
Mail and Fax Order Form by Clicking Here
to send us the information.
If you have any questions, please call us toll
free at 1-888-STOCKS6 or 703-787-3552 or send us
an email to
Old Company Research .
If we do not find any information regarding the
company we are researching, you are not charged.
In fact, your credit card is not charged or
check is not deposited until we find out what
happened to the company. If you would like to
proceed, please provided payment information for
this service on our secure server by clicking on
the Add to Cart button below and simply
follow the instructions. If you have any
questions, please call our toll free number at
1-888-STOCKS6. If you prefer to pay by check,
please send the check and a copy of both sides
of the certificate to:
Scripophily.com
Lockbox Payment
P.O. Box 223795
Chantilly, Virginia
20153
Toll Free 1-888-STOCKS6 (1-888-786-2576)
Direct 703-579-4209
Fax 703-995-4422 |
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R.M. Smythe is the World's #1 Stock & Bond Research Firm. We can help you find
information about your stocks and bonds and then tell you how to redeem them.
What We Research
R.M. Smythe has been researching inactive, unlisted and obscure securities for
over 116 years without interruption.
Our Resources
When we receive an inquiry about a particular company or issue, our research
professionals turn to R.M. Smythe's extensive records on more than one million
U.S. and foreign companies. We also publish, in hardcover and on microfilm, the
Robert D. Fisher Manuals of Valuable and Worthless Securities, which is the most
authoritative publications in the field.
What We Provide
For every inquiry a custom report is generated detailing the history of the
company, including any name changes, mergers, bankruptcies, predecessor and
successor companies. Most importantly, we report on whether securities have
market value today and how you can claim any money due. If your certificates
have no value as securities, we will make an offer for them as collectibles.
Who We Work For
Our clients are attorneys, corporations, institutions, brokers, banks,
executors, and individual stock and bond certificate holders worldwide. Recent
examples of R.M. Smythe research include:
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Axia, Inc.:
A Fredericksburg, Virginia, couple inherited shares of Axia, Inc., bought
many years before by relatives. R.M. Smythe researchers found that Axia had
since gone private, and that the State of New Jersey was holding funds for
Axia shareholders. Our clients were able to exchange their Axia shares for
over $44,000.
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Citizens
Savings & Loan:
When his mother died, an Astor, Florida, man found a newspaper story
mentioning R.M. Smythe clipped to shares of Citizens Savings & Loan. It
seems his mother had intended to contact R.M. Smythe, but had never done so.
We helped the son find out that Citizens Savings & Loan had changed its name
to United Financial Corporation of California, and then merged with National
Steel Corporation. The California State Division of Unclaimed Property was
holding over $4,000 for this shareholder.
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Penn Texas
Corporation:
An Anchorage, Alaska, resident received a very pleasant, though unexpected,
phone call last year. A distant half-brother wanted him to know that shares
of Penn Texas Corporation belonging to his mother had been found among their
father's papers. Because the stock was not longer listed on any exchange, a
local broker suggested calling R.M. Smythe. We discovered that the stock was
worth almost $22,000.
How To Order Research
If you are curious about certificates you hold, let us investigate their history
and value for you. Just provide information about your certificates by selecting
the order form below or by sending a photocopy of the face of the certificate to
R.M. Smythe & Co., Inc., Securities Research Department, 26 Broadway, Suite 973,
New York, NY 10004-1703, and let our researchers go to work for you. If you
wish, you may print the order form and fax or mail it to R.M. Smythe. The fee is
just $75 for each U.S. company. Ask about our discount for large orders and
institutions.
To
submit your order over the internet:
Go to the Order
Form.
To
submit your order by fax:
Download the
Order Form (pdf),
fill out all the information, including your credit card, and fax it to
212-908-4670, ATTN: Research Department.
To
submit your order by mail*:
Download the
Order Form (pdf),
fill out all the information, and mail it to:
R.M. Smythe & Co., Inc.
Securities Research Department
26 Broadway, Suite 973
New York, NY 10004-1703
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When submitting a request by mail, you may simply photocopy the certificate and
enclose it with your payment.
Robert D. Fisher
Manual of Valuable and Worthless Securities, Published since 1926
Spinks Smythe
Volume:Year 1:1926, 2:1928, 3:1930, 4:1934, 5/6:1937/38 (combined), 7:1940
(Includes Mining I), 8:1941 (Includes Mining II), 9:1942, 10:1944/45, 11:1946,
12:1957, 13:1971, 14:1975, 15:1984
Note: Volumes 4 and 9 are most useful, with indexing of material in previously
issued volumes
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The Fisher Manuals of
Valuable and Worthless Securities continued the work that was originally started
in 1926 by Marvin Scudder, who followed in the footsteps of Roland M. Smythe’s
classic 1904 and 1911 Obsolete American
Corporation’s volumes.
"Robert D. Fisher Manual of Valuable & Worthless
Securities" (1920). Published by
R.M. Smythe & Co., Inc.,
2 Rector Street, 12th Floor, New York, NY 100006, 1-800-622-1880 or
212-943-1880.
Volumes 5 through 15 list companies whose securities may have a liquidating or
exchange value, or may be identified as worthless. This reference superseded the
"Marvyn Scudder Manual of Extinct or Obsolete Companies", which was published by
Marvyn Scudder in four volumes, and included stocks issued from 1926 to 1937.