National Telephone & Telegraph Corp Specimen Stock Certificate

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Product Code: SPEC47

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This National Telephone & Telegraph Corp Specimen Stock Certificate is a rare find. It features Hunter Larrabee Gary as the president who is the son of Theodore Gary of Theodore Gary & Company which was large independent telephone company in the 1920s-30s. National Telephone and Telegraph was a subsidiary of Theodore Gary incorporated in 1926. They would ultimately merge with General Telephone Corp (GTE) in 1955.

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.