Beautiful engraved specimen certificate from the Automatique Incorporated dated in 1968. This historic document was printed by American Bank Note Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of the company logo. This item has the signatures of the Company's President and Secretary and is over 38 years old. 
Certificate Vignette Automatique Incorporated is a Delaware corporation incorporated in 1963. It is engaged, through divisions and a subsidiary, in the food service and janitorial industries in Iowa, Kansas, New York, Texas, New Jersey, Missouri, and Oklahoma. The principal business activity of the Company is the servicing of its customer accounts, primarily factories, offices, hospitals, schools, and social service agencies, through the use of vending machines, cafeterias, and prepared meals delivered from Company commissaries. On August 1, 1989, the name of the Company was changed from Automatique, Incorporated to Ambassador Food Services Corporation.
About Specimens Specimen Certificates are actual certificates that have never been issued. They were usually kept by the printers in their permanent archives as their only example of a particular certificate. Sometimes you will see a hand stamp on the certificate that says "Do not remove from file". Specimens were also used to show prospective clients different types of certificate designs that were available. Specimen certificates are usually much scarcer than issued certificates. In fact, many times they are the only way to get a certificate for a particular company because the issued certificates were redeemed and destroyed. In a few instances, Specimen certificates we made for a company but were never used because a different design was chosen by the company. These certificates are normally stamped "Specimen" or they have small holes spelling the word specimen. Most of the time they don't have a serial number, or they have a serial number of 00000. This is an exciting sector of the hobby that grown in popularity over the past several years.
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About Specimens Specimen Certificates are actual certificates that have never been issued. They were usually kept by the printers in their permanent archives as their only example of a particular certificate. Sometimes you will see a hand stamp on the certificate that says "Do not remove from file". Specimens were also used to show prospective clients different types of certificate designs that were available. Specimen certificates are usually much scarcer than issued certificates. In fact, many times they are the only way to get a certificate for a particular company because the issued certificates were redeemed and destroyed. In a few instances, Specimen certificates we made for a company but were never used because a different design was chosen by the company. These certificates are normally stamped "Specimen" or they have small holes spelling the word specimen. Most of the time they don't have a serial number, or they have a serial number of 00000. This is an exciting sector of the hobby that grown in popularity over the past several years.
