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October 20, 2025
"Complete" list of German sugar certificates
One of the issues that I came across as a collector is the quest for an ideally complete list of existing certificates. Naturally that poses the question what to include and what not to include - which necessarily introduces a degree of subjectivity. As sources I used the excellent list provided by ...
April 3, 2025
Poland 1917 -1939. The sugar industry and its scripophily
Introduction Before the Great War Poland had lost its independent statehood for over 100 years - partitioned and part of the German, Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires. Towards the end of the Great War Germany and its ally Austria-Hungary initially sought to establish a Polish puppet state in the ...
December 8, 2024
Cuba. The local companies and their scripophily
Cuba – the local sugar companies and their scripophily Cuba was for a long period one of the key players in the global sugar industry. From a slow start in Spanish colonial times to a major global player, through devastating wars of independence, US-occupation and reaching a pinnacle during and ...
December 25, 2023
My virtual museum - 2023 in review
In 2023… I would like to review the year 2023 for my virtual museum and present some interesting pieces and their history. The year about to end brought about considerable dynamic development with regards to my collection of historic securities related to the sugar industry and for my web ...
February 7, 2022
1850 - 1885. Boom in der deutschen Zuckerindustrie
In diesem Artikel beleuchten wir die Entwicklung der deutschen Zuckerindustrie während einer Periode enormen Wachstums auf dem Weg zur Weltmarktführerschaft. Natürlich geht es uns besonders um die Wertpapiere, die auch eine der wesentlichen Quellen darstellen - genauso wie meine kleine ...
April 3, 2021
The Netherlands. The sugar industry and its scripophily
As the other articles in the series this is meant to provide an overview of the evolution of the sugar industry in the region and of the topic from a scripophily perspective. The below will focus on the Netherlands itself and will briefly pass Suriname whereas the highly important industry on Java ...
January 2, 2021
Java. The sugar industry and its scripophily
As the other articles in the series this is meant to provide an overview of the evolution of the sugar industry in the region and of the topic from a scripophily perspective. The information on the Javanese industry is very largely based on Roger Wiseman's phd thesis "Three Crises. Management in ...