Bluefield Telephone Company Specimen Bond

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Bluefield Telephone Company Specimen Bond (Verizon South)

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Product Code: SPEC49

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This Bluefield Telephone Company Specimen Bond Certificate was from 1947. Bluefield was founded in 1947 to provide telephone service in Bluefield, Virginia and neighboring communities. They were acquired by GTE in 1954 and became General Telephone of the Southeast. In the 1980s they changed their name to GTE South, Inc. before being sold to Frontier Communications in 1993 and then Bell Atlantic in 2000. The new enterprise would become Verizon Communications and Bluefield Telephone would become Verizon South, Inc.

About Specimens:
Specimen stock certificates are certificates that were archived by printers and the company as perfect examples of the company’s stock issue. Specimen’s can be identified by their “specimen” stamp, stamped holes spelling “specimen”, or they are often issued with a serial number of a series of zeros. Often, they are also issued with no serial number at all. Specimens can also represent a design that was never issued. All of these attributes make the specimen stock certificate rarer than the issued version of the share. Many enthusiasts collect specimens as a whole new category of Scripophily.