Certificates Collection

Share certificate for The Yukon Goldfields
A share certificate for The Yukon Goldfields Limited, representing 35 shares. Gold deposits were first discovered along the Yukon River in Canada in 1896, and this triggered off a gold rush

Kentucky Railroad Shares
Kentucky and Great Eastern Railway Company - thousand collar share certificate

Buy National Savings Certificates
Poster urging the reader to Buy National Savings Certificates: Lend to defend his right to be free featuring an angelic boy constructing something with meccano

Tanks / War Bonds Poster
World War One poster featuring a tank, encouraging the public to buy war bonds to help fund the war effort

Death Certificate 1943
Death certificate issued in 1943 for John Robert Sanderson.Cause of death was tuberculosis

Rail Share Certificate
NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN AND HARTFORD RAILWAY COMPANY stock certificate Date: 1906

Photograph of children in a North London school holding up their National war-savings certificates. The children bring their money in week by week until the coveted total of 15s Date: 1917

Samuel Cody assorted memorabilia
EARLY AVIATION PIONEERS - THE SAMUEL CODY ARCHIVE: Extremely important Royal Aero Club Aviators Certificate No.9, 1910, issued to S. F

Ocean Liners - four stock certificates. Cunard Steam Ship Company Limited, RMS Titanic Inc, and International Mercantile Marine Company. Date: early 20th century

Captain John Treasure Jones Archive - certificates
Captain Treasure Jones Archive - personalised certificates

White Star Line - company share certificate
White Star Line - International Mercantile Marine Company share certificate. Date: circa 1920

RMS Titanic - three certificates of discharge, Wormald
RMS Titanic - F H Wormald (1866-1912), Titanic first class saloon steward who lost his life at the age of 45 when the ship sank

WW2 poster, They are planning their future. Are you? Save with a plan. Post Office Savings Bank, National Savings Certificates. For ways of saving - ask the officer who pays you. Date: circa 1942

Victory Parade in London 1940
Victory of the Battle of the River Plate, where HMS Ajex, Exerter Achilles fought in the South Atlantic on 13 December 1939, as the first naval battle of the Second World War

Certificate to schoolchildren from Mayor of Woolwich, WW2
Certificate presented to the schoolchildren of the Metropolitan Borough of Woolwich by the Mayor, Edwin Thomas Lamerton

Liberty Loan, Preparing the Bonds at Washington U. S. A 1917
Women worker at the bureau printing presses, bonds had to go through lots of processes before the finish result was ready to be purchased by the public. Date: 1917

Legal Tender Label

SANANTONIO LAND SHARE
Shares in the San Antonio, Texas, Land and Irrigation Company Date: 1914

CUBA SUGAR SHARE
One thousand shares in the Compania Azucarera Baragua, a Cuban sugar producer Date: 1922

KANAWHA, MICHIGAN RLY
KANAWHA AND MICHIGAN RAILWAY COMPANY share certificate Date: 1890

DEATH CERTIFICATES 1916
A death certificate for Private Frank Pullen from the Canadian Expeditionary Force dated 1 April 1919, although he died on 15 September 1916. Date: 1919

Government bond, Lung-Tsing-U-Hai Railway, China
Government bond of the Chinese Republic, Lung-Tsing-U-Hai Railway, China, value 20. A 5% gold loan for 10M sterling. Date: 1913

WW2 poster, Gloster Aircraft National Savings Group. Our aim is one fighter per month, for the next three months. Join the group, win certificates, and help win the war. Save now for your future

War Pay Poster
Information poster encouraging soldiers to save some of their pay during WWI in the form of savings certificates, earning a high rate of interest and free of income tax

Share certificate and coupons, Kilo-Moto Goldmines
Share certificate and dividend coupons, Kilo-Moto Goldmines, in the Belgian Congo. Date: 1944

WW2 Poster -- Buy Savings Certificates
Back them up! Buy Savings Certificates. Photolithograph poster, published by the National Savings Committee. Date: 1940

Advert from the National Savings Committee 1945
Rhyme and reason. Sing a song of spare cash, a song to make you sigh; Four and twenty shillings spent on a buy

Advert from the National Savings Committee 1943
Go on, buy it! Its not worth quarter the price. When he whispers in your ear, Go on, buy it ! be firm

Marriage Certificate - 1904
Marriage Certificate of William Cottee Woods and Edith Frances Pooley. Woods Father was a Shipowner and Pooleys Father was a Stockbroker. Date: 1904

Oscar Wilde, death certificate
Oscar Wildes Death Certificate, December 1900 Date: 1900

School Certificate
G Percy Carter of the Asylum for Fatherless Children Reedham, Surrey passed " Excellent" in Geometry of the first grade for children in elementary day schools

Selling War Certificates, Birchington
Hannah Powell-Cotton, in her uniform as Commandant of Birchington Voluntary Aid Detachment, sitting at a table selling War Certificates during War Weapons Week

Birchington Girl Guide Troop at Quex Park June 1920
The Birchington Girl Guide Troop photographed in the garden of Quex Park on 11 June 1920

Presentation of Certificates to Kent / 178 Birchington VAD
Lord Harris (4th Baron Harris, 1851-1932) speaking at Quex Park on the occasion of the presentation of certificates to members of the Birchington VAD Kent/178 on 11 June 1920

Lord Harris with Hannah Powell-Cotton
Lord Harris photographed with Hannah Powell-Cotton, as Commandant of the Birchington VAD Kent/178

Page design, commencement, School Silhouettes
Page design for commencement in School Silhouettes, once owned by a female student of Fayetteville High School, New York, USA

Poster, Buy National Savings Certificates
For your children, Buy National Savings Certificates. Date: 1920

Women WW1 Joan of Arc
A poster appealing to the women of Britain to buy war savings certificates to help Save your Country, as Joan of Arc had saved France in the past. Once again the artist uses the iconic image of St

Chief Scout and Governor with new Queens Scouts, Guyana
Governor and Chief Scout, Sir Richard Luyt, with two of seven new Queens Scouts and their proud mothers from Buxton, East Coast Demerara, British Guyana, South America

British fundraising poster, WW1
For Your Children. Buy War Savings Certificates and they will live to thank you, 1917. Colour half tone print of a pastel drawing by Rosina Mantovari Gutti, published as No

Firefighters in display at Lambeth HQ, London
Firefighters in a display at Lambeth HQ, London, on 28 July 1937, following a presentation of certificates for bravery by Mr E Cruse, Chairman of the London Fire Brigade Committee

Help to Win the War by Buying Aeroplanes at 2, 500 each
Business Mens Boom Week (March 4th - 9th 1918) - A Message from the Sky to the People of Bridgwater and District. Help to Win the War by Buying Aeroplanes at 2, 500 each

Advert for National Savings Certificates 1946
Her greatest day. This is the day she dreams of - the day she will step into all the happiness of a new life. But its more than just a day to look forward to. its a day that is worth saving up for

Advert from the National Savings Committee 1946
Listen to your wiser self ! Shoppings done and you ve a few shillings to spare

Advert for the National Savings Committee 1942
The gift that grows. National Savings gift tokens. Heres the simple answer to all your gift problems this christmas - gift tokens

Igor Sikorsky, left, and H. Grinsted were both presented?
Igor Sikorsky, left, and H. Grinsted were both presented with Honorary Fellowship certificates at the Royal Aeronautical Society?s AGM on 5 May 1955 at No.4 Hamilton Place

Advert for The National Savings Committee 1940
This year make your holiday weeks National Savings Week

Henry VIII and Jane Seymour
Dispensation for the marriage of Henry VIII to Jane Seymour, 19 May 1536 Date: 19th May 1536

Caxtons printed indulgence by John, abbot of Abingdon, to Henry Lanley, and wife Katherine, 1476 First printed document

Henry VIII and Katharine Parr
Notarial attestation of the marriage of Henry VIII and Katharine Latymer, alias Parr, 12 July 1543 Date: 12th July 1543

National Savings - Growth up to 1945
See how your Savings Certificates have grown already The healthy growth of value of National Savings plotted against a growing boy. Date: 1945

Certificate of membership for the Ladies Loyal Union League. Date: 1863

Brooklands Flying Club
Lady Chayter and Mr R. Richards, pupils at Brooklands Flying School studying for their flying certificates. Date: 1931

Wartime poster advertising Savings Certificates, said to be safe as the British Empire (marked red on the map). Showing returns on investments over 5 years and 10 years. 1940s

Poster advertising War Savings Certificates. One workman tells another that its worth while. 1940s

Wartime poster, Buy Savings Certificates
Wartime poster, Back them up! Buy Savings Certificates. Showing three soldiers going into battle. 1940s

Poster for War Savings Certificates
Poster encouraging people to buy War Savings Certificates. The bayonets have won through -- its your turn now

Selection of Titanic paperwork
A selection of paperwork from the ill-fated SS Titanic: 1. Account of Wages for James Witter, Steward. 2. A letter written on board the RMS Laconia from a survivor, Mary Hewlett, dated 30 May 1912

Death Certificate 1941
Death certificate issued when Alan Sandersons ship Inverness is sunk by the enemy in the North Atlantic in World War Two. He is missing, supposed drowned

Russian Railway Shares 2
Shares in the Russian Railway system, the Moscow - Kyiv - Voronezh line

Eastern Cuba Sugar Share
One thousand shares in the Eastern Cuba Sugar Corporation

Cleveland, Cincinnati R
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and Saint Louis Railway Co. Share Certificate

Indiana, Illinois, Iowa
Indiana, Illinois and Iowa Railroad Company Share Certificate

London School Board Cert
A London School Board Certificate for Reading, Writing and Arithmetic according to the third standard

Sheraton Desk 1805
Desk by Thomas Sheraton, with pigeon-holes for your insurance certificates, bank statements and billets-doux

Good Conduct Certificate
Acknowledgment of P Dohmens good behaviour for December 1920 by St Servais College, Liege. Issued monthly such certificates are designed to be given to the parents

School Certificate Art
George Percy Carter of the Asylum for Fatherless Children Reedham, Surrey got a " Credit" pass for drawing in Standard VII. He is obviously more of a mathematician than artist!

Convent School Prize
A certificate or bookplate to mark the winning of a prize for passing Cambridge Senior by Marian Ward, VI form, Ursuline Convent, Upton, Essex & St Angelas High School

School Prize 1864
A small prizewinners certificate or bookplate awarded to Charles Cooper for his improvement in Common Things 3rd class in hope that it will spur him on

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