old stock certificate worth
 

How might a person best determine the worth (or lack of worth) of stock shares in a company that existed 40 years ago but no longer exists today?
Thanks in advance. SmileWavy

Unless the company was bought by another company, probably worthless.

Is the company completely gone, or was it brought out by a competitor? If it was brought out, you would have gotten a stock swap, where your stocks are traded in for the new company's stock.

If the company went out of business, then your stock is worth a little more than the price of paper it is printed on....

-Z-man.

There are collectors of such certificates.

The value depends on several factors:

Age.
How elaborate/unusual the certificate face may be decorated.
If the defunct company or original CEO has a known/historic 'cultural value'.
If it is perhaps signed by someone 'interesting'.

Selling? Try eBay.

As holder of a 12,000,000 Sterling Chinese Government (Pre-Revolution) Railway Bond, I think I can safely answer your question with "not very much".

conv piece value there...

These certificates were inherited. Is there a way to determine if a company was sold, evaporated or was sold to a company that then evaporated (or still exists)?

The internet could be your freind here.

What was the name of the company, and what did they do?

sure wish these could be valuable still. each over 100 years old. found in a wall at an old house.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1241650270.jpg

Wow! Very, very cool. Neat piece of history there. Maybe not as cool as thousands worth of old gold coins, but cool anyway.

If you can determine what state the incorporation was in, go to thaat Stae's Sec of Stae website and do a search....will give a starting point.

Speaking of which, that's exactly what I inherited from my grandfather.

A few years ago he showed me his proof sets. He's ordered a silver and gold proof set every year since the 50's. I thought that was his coin collection.

Boy was I wrong.

Way wrong.

He had a tall gun safe full of coins. Trays and trays of coins. Thousands of coins.

I'm not sure what I'm going to do with them.

Worthless. The punches indicate redemption.

Sorry

put it on flea bay.