American Thread Co. - Specimen Stock Certificate
Inv# SE2518 Specimen Stock
Specimen Stock printed by Franklin Lee Division-American Bank Note Company.
In relation to the American Thread Company, the American Thread Building is a historic building located at 260 West Broadway on the corner of Beach Street in the TriBeCa neighborhood of lower Manhattan, New York City. The eleven story building was designed in the Renaissance Revival style by architect William B. Tubby, and built in 1896. It was originally known as the Wool Exchange Building, and owned by the Wool Warehouse Company. The wool company did not succeed and the building was acquired by the American Thread Company in 1907, and was renovated and converted into live/work lofts in 1981.
The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 20, 2005.
In 2007, a renovation of one of the units uncovered an early work by artist Keith Haring.
Stock and Bond Specimens are made and usually retained by a printer as a record of the contract with a client, generally with manuscript contract notes such as the quantity printed. Specimens are sometimes produced for use by the printing company's sales team as examples of the firm’s products. These are usually marked "Specimen" and have no serial numbers.
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