PRE-SINKING International Mercantile Marine Specimen Stock Certificate TITANIC!!

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Wow
, Extremely Hard To Find, Antique
International Mercantile Marine SPECIMEN Stock Certificate!!!
Unissued! International Mercantile Marine was the parent company for the builders of the Titanic. Specimen certificates are printed and pulled BEFORE the issued stocks are printed, so that makes this certificate
PRE-SINKING
which is extremely
RARE!!!!!!!
Carries a date of December 1, 1902. Please notice small paper loss at top right corner and still carries a portion of the original booking tab receipt on the left side of the stock, folded back. In all my years of collecting I've only seen 3 of these certificates!!!
Specimen
stock certificates are certificates that were archived by printers and the company as perfect examples of the companys stock issue.
Specimen's
can sometimes be identified by their '
specimen'
stamp, stamped holes spelling '
specimen'
, or they are often issued with a serial number of a series of zeros. Often, they are also issued with no serial number at all.
Specimen
certificates
can also be unissued, numbered and stamped if other specimens were not available to the company. All of these attributes make the
specimen
stock certificate much
rarer
than the large quantity issued version of the share. Many enthusiasts collect specimens as a whole new category of Scripophily.
This one won't last long! Thank you for looking!
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