Lone Star Industries, Inc. - 1968 dated Specimen Stock Certificate
Inv# SE4085 Specimen Stock
Delaware
Massachusetts
New York
Specimen Stock printed by Security-Columbian Banknote Company. Lone Star Industries, Inc. was established in Maine in 1919 under the name International Cement Corporation. In 1936, the company rebranded itself as Lone Star Cement Corporation. The Indiana division was launched around 1924. In 1969, Lone Star Cement relocated its state of incorporation to Delaware and, in 1971, adopted the name Lone Star Industries, Inc. In 1999, the company was acquired by the German cement firm Dyckerhoff, which itself was purchased by Buzzi Unicem S.p.A. of Casale Monferrato, Italy, in 2004. Currently, all properties previously owned by Lone Star Industries are managed by Buzzi Unicem USA.
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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