Florida Tile Industries, Inc - Florida Specimen Stock Certificate - Florida Tile
Inv# SE1660 Specimen Stock
Specimen Stock. Available in Blue or Orange. Please specify color. Florida Tile was founded in Lakeland, Florida when Leon Sikes Sr. and his sons James "Jimmie" Sikes and Leon Sikes Jr. purchased a run-down tile operation for $8,000 in March 1954. At the time the company manufactured one specialty trim shape of tile that was difficult to find. As the industry grew away from small format, extruded, and two-tone effect floor tiles, Florida Tile began to adopt new automation to manufacture the increasingly complex products the market demanded. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Tile
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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