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Contents: - Websites on Old Stocks - Books on Old Stocks

Related Page: - Historic Stock Prices

Websites on Old Stocks

• "To trace an obsolete security, you need the exact name of the company, the date issued, and the state or province of incorporation (all found on the stock certificate)."
• With this you can find the security in reference books, contact the state where it was incorporated, etc.
• This website has a list of Reference Books; U.S. State, Federal, and Canadian Resources; Search Firms; Scripophily Dealers, Organizations and Books; and other resources.

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Books on Old Stocks

Select a title to find the book's Library location.

• "Brief profile of banks and companies whose original identities have been lost as a result of... change in name, merger, acquisition, dissolution, reorganization, bankruptcy, chapter cancellation."

• Listings of corporations "that have been reorganized, merged, liquidated or dissolved... and information establishing the year the securities became worthless."
• King Library also has in its 2nd Floor Microform Cabinets volumes 1-4, 6-8, and 12, and on the shelf volumes 13, 14, and 15 (1971-1983).