Witco Chemical Corporation - $1,000 Bond
Inv# SE2340 Specimen Bond
$1,000 4 1/2% Specimen Bond printed by American Bank Note Company.
Witco Corporation, the highly successful manufacturer of specialty chemicals, petroleum products, and engineered materials, began in 1920 as a small Chicago area chemical distributor. Since that time, Witco’s consistent expansion through both acquisitions and internal developments have made the company one of the strongest, if not the largest, chemical companies in the industry.
Crompton Corporation (NYSE:Â CK, formerly Crompton and Knowles) was a chemical research, production, sales and distribution company headquartered in Middlebury, Connecticut. The company produced specialty chemicals used for polymers, fire suppressants and retardants, pool and spa water purification systems and various other applications. In 2005, Crompton merged with Great Lakes Chemical Corporation to become Chemtura.
Crompton Corporation traced its origins to 1837 when founder William Crompton invented a loom for weaving patterns in cotton, an innovation that led in the 1840s to the founding of Crompton Loom Works in Worcester, Massachusetts by his son George Crompton. The company merged in 1879 with rival Knowles Brothers to form the Crompton & Knowles Loom Works. In 1999, Crompton & Knowles merged with Witco Corporation to form Crompton Corporation.
In 2005, Crompton merged with Great Lakes Chemical Corporation of West Lafayette, Indiana, to form Chemtura, headquartered in Philadelphia.[1]
Crompton's ticker symbol on the New York Stock Exchange was CK.
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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