Evidence of follies past

An exceedingly rare paper share for an English company traded at the height of the stock mania in the summer of 1720 – perhaps the only known survival of this iconic type of object that appears in numerous satirical prints and plays from the period as the symbol of folly – worthless bits of paper being blown by the wind of speculation.

History Repeating

A comic image from a special edition of a French magazine from 1902,
focusing on the folly of the stock market.