Hartford National Corporation - Specimen Stock Certificate - Merged with Shawmut Corporation
Inv# SE2093 Specimen Stock
Specimen Stock printed by American Bank Note Company. Shawmut Bank was founded in Boston in 1836, and its emblem, featuring the stylized bust of Sachem Obbatinewat, became a prominent symbol in Greater Boston over the following 150 years. In 1988, Shawmut Corporation, the bank's parent company, merged with Hartford National Corporation, which owned Connecticut National Bank and the Provident Institution for Savings, to create Shawmut National Corporation. The Shawmut name and logo were retired in 1995 following the merger of Shawmut National Corporation with Fleet Financial Group. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawmut
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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