Vintage 1966 Baltimore Transit Company $1,000 Bond 🚋 Streetcar & Bus History, 6 2/3% Income Debenture military_history_decor Pairing three stars with the

Pairing three stars with the word surfine — itself meaning "superfine" — was a deliberate double-declaration: the verbal and the visual marker of the highest grade

hand-cut dies

the counter-display cards

Labels like this one are now among the few tangible

Vintage 1966 Baltimore Transit Company $1,000 Bond 🚋 Streetcar & Bus History, 6 2/3% Income Debenture military_history_decor Pairing three stars with theWhat Did It Feel Like to Hold a Stake in Baltimore's Streetcars, Right as the Rails Were Going Quiet? Picture Baltimore in the mid 1960s. The streetcars have already gone silent the last one rolled to its barn on November 3, 1963 and the city's transit fleet is now all rubber tires and diesel exhaust where there used to be steel wheels humming on steel rails. Somewhere in an office downtown, a registered bondholder is handed a crisp, orange and brown