Blue Bell, Inc. - Specimen Stock Certificate - Apparel Company
Inv# SE2386 Specimen Stock
Stock printed by American Bank Note Company. Blue Bell, Inc. was established on August 20, 1904, by Charles C. Hudson in Greensboro, North Carolina, taking over the operations of Hudson Manufacturing Company. The company specialized in work apparel and maintained its headquarters in Greensboro, North Carolina, from 1904 until 1987, after which it relocated to Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, where it remained until 1994. In 1926, Blue Bell merged with the Big Ben Manufacturing Company, followed by a merger with Globe Superior Corporation in 1936. On August 3, 1984, the Blue Bell Holding Company, Inc. was created to serve as a holding company for Blue Bell, Inc. The VF Corporation acquired Blue Bell in 1986, integrating its operations. Subsequently, the Greensboro headquarters was closed and merged with VF's facility in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. By early 1994, Blue Bell was fully integrated into the Wrangler Apparel Corporation, which had previously been a subsidiary.
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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