Lost or stolen securities. A coupon bond payable to bearer or a stock certificate assigned in
blank is good in the hands of an innocent and bona fide holder who acquires it by honest
purchase at a fair market price without knowledge that it was fraudulently obtained by any
previous holder even though it mav have been lost by or stolen from its owner.  The recovery of a
lost or stolen bond or stock certificate can rarely be accomplished unless it is found in the hands
of the finder or of the thief or his accomplice or some person who has obtained possession of it by
fraud or under circumstances which will convict him of knowledge or suspicion of fraud on the part
of the one from whom he received it.  The fact that a lost or stolen bond or stock certificate has
been advertised by its number does not invalidate the title of an innocent holder as it cannot be
held that the purchaser of a bond or a stock certificate is bound to have knowledge of the
advertisement.