Levitz Furniture Corp. - 1977 dated Specimen Stock Certificate

Specimen Stock printed by Security-Columbian United States Banknote Corporation. Incorporated in 1965.

Levitz Furniture was a nationwide chain of American furniture stores that helped create the "furniture warehouse" genre of retail furniture sales. It was in business for nearly 100 years before liquidating in bankruptcy in early 2008. The company was founded in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, in 1910 by Richard Levitz. In the 1960s, Levitz, expanded by Richard's sons Leon and Ralph, successfully pioneered the sales of moderately priced brand-name furniture from a warehouse-style store. It suffered in the 1990s as consumers began to prefer showroom sales that featured spaces arranged to look like actual rooms in houses. The chain continued to expand in 2005, when they acquired Seaman's Furniture and Huffman Koos stores after bankruptcy. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levitz_Furniture