Home

             

Denver Stock Exchange

P.O. Box 3891

Englewood, CO 80155

303-872-7845


                                            

DSE Featured Item


Search The DSE


 

Stock & Bond Certificates   

           

Colorado Mining

Cripple Creek 

Colorado Misc.

Western Mining & Land

East & Midwest Mining

International Mining

Coal Mining

Telephone & Telegraph

Oil, Gas and Refining

Railroad

Collectable - pre 1930

Collectable - post 1930


Autographs  


Collectables

Colorado Ephemera

Cripple Creek Ephemera

Colorado Checks

Cripple Creek Checks

U.S. Checks & Drafts

Western Ephemera

Letterhead & Billhead

Railroadiana

Books Maps & Photos

Post Cards 


Services, Products & Resources

Archival Storage 

Stock & Bond Research

Colorado History

Colorado e-Museum

Our Favorite Links


The Details

Certificate Condition

Ordering Information

About Us

Contact Us

Register with the DSE


Visit our Colorado

 e-Museum


Read more about Denver Stock Exchange


*WANTED*

Colorado stock certificates, checks and ephemera!

We are looking to buy historical Colorado paper documents.  Please contact us today! 

We will pay fair prices for good material. Please check with us before selling to another.


Scripophily: 

"The study and collection of antique stock and bond certificates."


 

 

 

Colorado Non-Mining Stock & Bond Certificate Catalogue

A listing of miscellaneous Colorado stocks and bonds


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Colorado was more than just a state dotted with mines.  Alongside those mines sprung towns and mining camps.  Often times those individuals that got rich off the latest strike were not the miners, but the merchants, store owners, banks, and manufacturers of the goods used every day by the miners in their trade or just daily living.  Individuals and companies were quick to take advantage of the opportunity to profit from the needs of the miners and their families.   From the  mining camps grew larger population centers with a myriad of businesses that required capital to succeed.   It seemed as though anyone could float the issuance of stock on the market and investors would be there willing to invest!   This created a wealth of unique and unusual company's who's stock certificates have survived and provide the collector an opportunity to posses a piece of Colorado business history!

 

We are pleased to present the following selection of certificates representing a variety of Colorado industries and businesses.


Visit our Colorado e-Museum to view a collection of fantastic Colorado certificates


Protect your collection and your investment with Archival Quality Protective Storage 


Brookside Water Company

Colorado Springs

Issued / Cancelled, 1921.  Issued at Colorado Springs, Colo.   Formerly was Brookside Water and Improvement Company, and the "Improvement" portion of the company name has been lined out due to a change in the name of the company.

Certificate is in F condition.

 

 


Offered at:  $40

Item #CS23001     Order Now!


Canon City & Royal Gorge Railroad Company

Colorado

Unissued; 19**  Common shares.

Certificate has a wonderful vignette depicting the hanging bridge at the bottom of the Royal Gorge.  Certificate is in very crisp, EF condition.

This certificate is also listed in our Railroad Certificate Catalogue

 

 

 

 

 

 


Offered at:  $45     Newly Listed!

Item #RR31025     Order Now!


Canon City & Royal Gorge Railroad Company

Colorado

Unissued; 19**  Preferred shares.

Certificate has a wonderful vignette depicting the hanging bridge at the bottom of the Royal Gorge.  Certificate is in very crisp, EF condition.

This certificate is also listed in our Railroad Certificate Catalogue

 

 

 

 

 

 


Offered at:  $45     Newly Listed!

Item #RR31026     Order Now!


Central Colorado Power Company

Boulder

Issued / Uncancelled, 1909.

The Central Colorado Power Company was organized in 1906 to build hydroelectric power facilities.  In 1909 the founder diverted the  Colorado River to power his companies Shoshone hydroelectric plant.  They also built both the Kossler and  Barker hydroelectric dams and reservoirs in Boulder Canyon to provide electricity to Denver, Boulder, and the surrounding mining camps.   In 1913 Central Colorado Power was reorganized into the Colorado Power Company.  By 1924, the Colorado Power Company had merged with the Public Service Company of Colorado.  Historic Colorado water and power company!

Fantastic vignette of a river and hydroelectric motor.  Certificate is in VF condition

 

 


Offered at:  $65         Newly Listed!

Item #CS23011         Order Now!  


Colorado Telephone Company

Colorado

Issued / Cancelled, dated 1911.  Issued at Denver, Colorado. 

In 1878, F. O. Vaille and 2 partners introduced telephone service to Colorado.   In 1881, Vaille and his associates organized the Colorado Telephone Company and sold all property, rights, and franchises they held in Colorado to the company.    By 1888, the Colorado Telephone Company controlled all telephone interests and service in the state.   on August 1, 1911, the Colorado Telephone Company merged into the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company.   The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Company, along with the Tri-State Telephone & Telegraph Company were also merged together into the Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Company.  

This certificates represents one of the last issuances of stock for the Colorado Telephone Company prior to its merger.

Certificate vignette depicts a telephone and telephone poles with wire. 

Certificate is in F condition.   This certificate is also listed in our Telephone & Telegraph Certificate Catalogue.

 


Offered at:  $150      Newly Listed!

Item #TE90023        SOLD!


Crews-Beggs Trading Company

Leadville

Issued / Cancelled, 1902.   Issued at Leadville, Colo.  Attractive trading company certificate from Leadville!  Certificate is in F condition. with a small tape scab on upper-left corner.

 

 

 

 

 

 


Offered at:  $50

Item #CS23002     Order Now!


Denver Union Water Company

Denver

Issued / Cancelled, 1919.   Issued at Denver, Colorado. 

Signed by Walter S. Cheesman

Cheesman was the president of the Denver Union Water Company and built the Cheesman Dam, creating Cheesman Reservoir.  Completed in 1905, the Cheesman dam was an engineering marvel of its time.  It was the first major gravity-arch masonry dam built in the world as well as being the highest dam in the world.   Cheesman was Denver's first of many future mountain water system reservoirs. 

Certificate is in F condition.

 


Offered at:  $65      Newly Listed!

Item #CS23014      Order Now!


East Colorado Springs Land Company

Colorado Springs

Issued / Uncancelled, 1915.   Issued at Colorado Springs, Colo.  Certificate issued to the Golden Cycle Mining Co.   Nice Colorado Land certificate!

Certificate is in F condition.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Offered at:  $50      Newly Listed!

Item #CS23013      Order Now!


El Paso Telephone Company

Colorado City, Colorado

Issued / Cancelled, dated 1904.  Certificate #4.

Issued at Colorado City, Colorado and sates "Headquarters, Colorado City, Colo." on certificate.  We believe this company was the early predecessor to the El Paso County Telephone Company, which served the Colorado Springs area until 1985.

Certificate is in G+ - VG condition with piece of corner missing and a rough top edge, otherwise the rest of the certificate is in Fine condition.   This certificate is also listed in our Telephone & Telegraph Certificate Catalogue.

 

 


Offered at:  $40      Newly Listed!

Item #TE90003      Order Now!


Great Western Sugar Factory - Ft. Collins, Colo.

Postcard for display only - Not for sale.

Great Western Sugar Company

Issued / Cancelled, 1927.

The Great Western Sugar Company was incorporated in New Jersey, but its operations were a consolidation of sugar plants in the South Platte Valley of Colorado including plants at Loveland,  Fort Collins, Longmont and Windsor.  The GW Sugar Company, at its peak, was larger  than Gates Rubber!  Colorado became the leader in production of sugar beets in the nation and became an enormous cash crop for Colorado farmers.  F condition.

 


Offered at:  $15

Item #CS23003     Order Now!


Lincoln County Agricultural and Horticultural Fair Association

Lincoln County, Colorado

Issued / Uncancelled, 1921.  Fully issued certificate but with no embossed corporate seal.    Lincoln County is located in East-Central Colorado.  Certificate is in VF condition.

 

 

 

 

 

 


Offered at:  $50

Item #CS23004     SOLD!     


Lincoln Light and Power Company

Lincoln County, Colorado

Issued / Uncancelled, 1919.

Certificate is issued and dated, but lacks signatures of the officers and the corporate seal.  Low certificate number (#6).   Though this certificate lacks signatures, it is still a rare certificate representing an early 20th Century Eastern Colorado power company.    Certificate is in EF condition.  

 

 

 


Offered at:  $25   

Item #CS23005       Order Now!    


James A. McCandless Investment Company

Florence, Colorado

Issued / Uncancelled, 1923.  Florence, Colo. indicated in corporate seal.   Fantastic financial certificate featuring a photo of James McCandless himself!   Certificate is in F condition.

 

 

 

 

 

 


Offered at:  $75   

Item #CS23006       Order Now!    


Platte Valley Mutual Telephone Company

Adams & Weld Co's, Colorado

 Issued / Cancelled, dated 1914.

Company served Adams and Weld Counties with over 190 miles of line by 1913.  This is a wonderful Eastern Colorado telephone company certificate!

Certificate is in crisp F condition.

This certificate is also listed in our Telephone & Telegraph Certificate Catalogue.

 

 

 

 

 


Offered at:  $75      Newly Listed!

Item #TE90025      Order Now!


Railway Savings and Building Association

Pueblo, Colorado

Issued / Uncancelled, 1923.  Issued at Pueblo, Colo.   Rare railroad financial certificate featuring three small vignettes and bright red seal.   We surmise that this company was a savings institution for local railroad employees, similar to today's Credit Unions.   Certificate is in F condition

 

 

 

 


Offered at:  $75      Newly Listed!

Item #CS23010         Order Now!  


Vignette

Shot-Lite Corporation of America

Colorado

Unissued certificate.   Very unique vignette depicting the company's product in use.   

We have been unable to find additional information about this company, but it is certainly worth of further research!

Certificate is in VF condition


Offered at:  $45      Newly Listed!

Item #CS23012      Order Now!   


Southwestern Telephone Company

Durango, Colorado

Issued / Cancelled, dated 1894.

By the time this certificate was issued in April, 1894, the city of Durango had granted the Southwestern Telephone Company a 25 year franchise and the town had more than 60 phones installed. 

Certificate is in F condition.

This certificate is also listed in our Telephone & Telegraph Certificate Catalogue.

 

 

 

 


Offered at:  $100      Newly Listed!

Item #TE90035        Order Now!


White-Bear Land & Cattle Company

Denver / Hayden

Issued / Uncancelled, 1909.   Issued at Denver, Colorado. 

White Bear Land & Cattle owned approximately 5000 acres in Northwest Colorado, near the town of Hayden and the White and Bear Rivers.  The ranch ran sheep and cattle as well as grew agricultural crops.  Beautifully illustrated certificate of a white bear overlooking a mountain river valley and cattle.

Certificate is in VF condition.

 

 

 


Offered at:  $1,000     Newly Listed!

Item #CS23015           SOLD!


Wray Telephone Company

Wray, Colorado

 Issued / Cancelled, dated 1909.  Issued at Wray, Colo.   Company served Yuma County with 128 miles of line by 1915.  This is a wonderful Eastern Colorado telephone company certificate!

Certificate is in crisp VF condition.

This certificate is also listed in our Telephone & Telegraph Certificate Catalogue.

 

 

 

 

 


Offered at:  $85      Newly Listed!

Item #TE90024      Order Now!


Yampa Valley Telephone Company

Craig, Colorado

Issued / Uncancelled, dated 1913.  Incorporated in 1913 and issued at Craig, Colorado.   Company served Moffat and Routt Counties with 216 miles of line by 1917. 

Superb Northwest Colorado telephone company stock!

Certificate is in EF condition This certificate is in exceptional condition with no folds.   This certificate is also listed in our Telephone & Telegraph Certificate Catalogue.

 

 

 


Offered at: $75       Newly Listed!

Item #TE90010      Order Now!     


HOME | ARCHIVAL STORAGE | COLORADO MINING CERTIFICATES

This page has been visited Hit Counter times.