Rockwood and Co. - 1926 dated $500 Specimen Gold Bond - Chocolatier Company

$500 6% Specimen Bond printed by W.N. Perrin & Company, New York. Coupons attached. Rockwood & Company was a New York City-based chocolatier which operated from 1886 until 1957. It coordinated the industry's first resale price contracts, operated the largest chocolate factory in New York, and was the second largest producer of chocolate in the United States, after the Hershey Company. Founded in the borough of Manhattan, it moved to the Brooklyn neighborhood of Wallabout, gradually expanding its footprint to occupy most of a city block. In 1919, a fire led to a flood of chocolate in the street, attracting a crowd of children. Rockwood & Company sold the factory to the Sweets Company of America in 1957, who used it to produce Tootsie Rolls until it closed in 1967. The Rockwood & Company factory complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, which was later merged into the Wallabout Industrial Historic District. It was converted to luxury apartments in 1996.

Wallace T. Jones and W. E. Rockwood founded Rockwood & Company in 1886 and originally operated a chocolate factory on Cherry Street in Manhattan until 1904, when it moved to Brooklyn. At the time, it was the second largest producer of chocolate in the country, next to Hershey's. It processed raw cocoa into chocolate and made coatings, bars, cocoa, baking chocolate, and other confections. Rockwood may have been the first to introduce chocolate sprinkles (marketed as "Decorettes") to the United States circa 1915, and in later years its bestselling product was chocolate chips (marketed as "Chocolate Bits"). Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockwood_%26_Company