Rare 1955 NYSE Printed Paper Ticker Tape - Five-Foot Section For Sale

Five-foot sections of tape will be shipped via USPS.They will be rolled and placed inside a plastic or metal container.

My grandparents, along with my mother and uncle, visited the NYSE in June, 1955, and they were given these rolls of ticker tape.I have been corresponding with Timothy Falcon Crack, PhD, who has been researching ticker tape for over 25 years.After verifying that the tape is genuine, he kindly offered to draft a certificate of authentication for me.Please see photo of certificate attached.

I have compared the printed stock identifiers (i.e., “ticker symbols”) and prices on these rolls of tape with data from the Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) database(University of Chicago). I can confirm that these rolls of ticker tape were printed on Friday June 17, 1955. The unique combination of imprints on the tapes match CRSP data from that day, and cannot be from any other day in history. These tapes show mostly prices during trade, but one of the tapes also contains a runoff period where the day’s closing “offer and ask,” or “high, low, and close” prices are printed off at the end of the day.

Genuine NYSE paper ticker tape that is the result of natural trade is rare. I see it for sale less than once a year. In fact, more than half of the ticker tape I have seen for sale in the last 10 years has been a fabrication, as illustrated at my Web page. I am confident, however, that this ticker tape is genuine.