FORD MOTOR CO. Stock SPECIMEN ca 1970s. Dearborn, Michigan. Henry Ford II SIG

Description

Ford Motor Company. Stock SPECIMEN ca. 1970. Incorporated in 1919 in the State of Delaware.
Company seal lower center. Certificate for
more than
100 shares of Common stock of the par value of .50 each.
Printed signature of company chairman of the board Henry Ford II
. Certificate is about 8” x 10.” Black print with
red-
orange overprint/underprint.
Vignette with inventor Henry Ford standing next to his first car, the Ford Quadricycle “horseless carriage” ca. 1896, with rural highway left and urban highways right.
Ford Motor Company is an American multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, United States. It was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. The company sells automobiles and commercial vehicles under the Ford brand, and luxury cars under its Lincoln luxury brand. The company is listed on the New york Stock Exchange and is controlled by the Ford family; they have minority ownership but the majority of the voting power.
Ford introduced methods for large-scale manufacturing of cars and large-scale management of an industrial workforce using elaborately engineered manufacturing sequences typified by moving assembly lines; by 1914, these methods were known around the world as Fordism. Ford is the second-largest U.S.-based automaker (behind General Motors) and the fifth largest in the world. At the end of 2010, Ford was the fifth-largest automaker in Europe. The company went public in 1956 but the Ford family, through special Class B shares, still retain 40 percent of the voting rights.
Condition:  Extremely Fine-Uncirculated
, no folds, no creasing, no tears, no signs of wear/handling/toning (see photos), punched "SPECIMEN 12 16 76" at signature lines.
Printer:
Security-Columbian Bank Note Company, New York.
SPECIMEN certificates
are actual certificates that have never been issued. They were usually kept by the printers in their permanent archives as their only example of a particular certificate. Specimens were also used to show prospective clients different types of certificate designs that were available. Specimen certificates are usually much scarcer than issued certificates. In fact, many times they are the only way to get a certificate for a particular company because the issued certificates were redeemed and destroyed. In a few instances, Specimen certificates we made for a company but were never used because a different design was chosen by the company. These certificates are normally stamped "SPECIMEN" or they have small holes spelling the word specimen. Most of the time they don't have a serial number, or they have a serial number of 00000.
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