St. Regis Paper Co. - Specimen Stock Certificate
Inv# SE3595 Specimen Stock
Specimen Stock printed by Security-Columbian Banknote Company.
St. Regis, a major producer of industrial multi-wall paper bags out of the Franklin plant, ceased operations on that site in 1983 when the Franklin facility was purchased by Champion Paper. Not too long after that, the company was sold to Stone Container, which operated the plant for a while but ceased operations on that site in 1986, at which time the property was bought by Nansemond Cold Storage of Suffolk. Since that time, the building has been used for multiple purposes including use as a storage facility and for the production of plastic trash containers (American Plastics Inc.). Read more at: https://www.thetidewaternews.com/2014/06/07/remembering-the-st-regis-paper-company/
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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