Gearhart-Owen Industries, Inc. - Specimen Stock Certificate
Inv# SE1536
Specimen Stock
Texas
Specimen Stock printed by American Bank Note Company. Gearhart Industries, The GO Company (formerly GO Oil Well Services, Gearhart-Owen Industries) was an oil well service company founded by Marvin Gearhart and Harrold Owen in 1955 and based in Fort Worth, Texas, United States. It provided well logging and well perforating services to both domestic and international customers. Gearhart was usually supported by national oil companies as a way of containing Schlumberger monopolies.
On February 24, 1988, it was announced that Gearhart was entering into a buyout agreement with oilfield service giant Halliburton Company. Within Halliburton, it was merged with Welex Jet Services to become Halliburton Logging Services. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gearhart_Industries
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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