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A Valuable Collection

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
March
Year
1893
Copyright
Public Domain
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The collection mania has ite victinis Mnong all classes of people, froni the jxxwest to the richest, and very often queer traits of charaaéer are shown by the collections made. A siiecessñü Wall stréet broker has a collection that is unique, valuable and income producing. Blessed with abundant means, he has for the past five years been able to gratify his whim for the collection of bank stocks. His ambition is to have the largest collection of certiflcates of bank stocks in the world. His plan is to buy just one share of stock in each national bank. Recently he found that every national bank in New York city except one was represented in his collection. The exception was the Chemical, the $100 shares of which sell for something over $5,000 each. After trying for a long while to find some one who would sell him a single share the collector came across three shares which were for sale in a lmnp. He could not get one alone, consequently he bought the three for a trifle over $15,000. "I was led into making collections of bank stocks," said this gentleman the other day, "because I could not think of anything else to collect. Among my friends were collectors of pictures, bronzes, marbles, bric-a-brac, flowers, books, postage stamps, coins, musical instruments, glassware and almost everything else. I wanted to collect something that would be out of the ordinary and at the same time be of permanent valué. Therefore I settled on bank shares. -

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News