National Type-writer Co. - 1899 dated Stock Certificate - Beautiful Unique Vignette
Inv# GS6406 Stock
Stock for 100 Shares, #168, 1899, with Revenues, likely the nicest typewriter stock ever. Very Scarce! National typewriter production began in 1889 in Philadelphia, PA. The original factory was at 715 - 719 Arch St. but It was later relocated to the corner of Arch St. and 23rd St. At an advertised price of $60, Nationals were almost 40% less than other blindwriters on the market.
Henry Herman Unz (1857 - 1905) is the National's credited visionary though its genesis belongs with Franz Xaver Wagner (1837 - 1907) who, in 1885, patented the typewriter's curved, three-row, double-shift keyboard (patent no.326,178). Unz would expand on Wagner's keyboard design and filing for several more patents. The culmination of his work was patent no.400,146 which best reflects the National typewriter as we know it today. Read more at https://www.antikeychop.com/national-no-2
A stock certificate is issued by businesses, usually companies. A stock is part of the permanent finance of a business. Normally, they are never repaid, and the investor can recover his/her money only by selling to another investor. Most stocks, or also called shares, earn dividends, at the business's discretion, depending on how well it has traded. A stockholder or shareholder is a part-owner of the business that issued the stock certificates.
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