Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc. ( DLJ ) - RARE SPECIMEN

Beautiful RARE SPECIMEN stock certificate from Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc. ( DLJ ) dated 7/10/1998. This historic document was printed by the American Bank Note Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of Thomas Jefferson. This item has the printed signatures of the Company’s Chairman and CEO, John S. Chalsty and Secretary, is over 30 years old. This is the first time we have had a Specimen stock certificate (not proof) from this company.


Certificate Vignette

Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette was a leading integrated investment and merchant bank serving institutional, corporate, government and individual clients. DLJ’s businesses include securities underwriting; sales and trading; investment and merchant banking; financial advisory services; investment research; venture capital; correspondent brokerage services; online, interactive brokerage services; and asset management. Founded in 1959 and headquartered in New York City, DLJ employed approximately 10,200 people worldwide and maintained offices in 13 cities in the United States and 16 cities in Europe, Latin America and Asia.

On November 3, 2000, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc. was acquired. The investment banking business of DLJ has been integrated into Credit Suisse First Boston, and substantially all of the asset management business of DLJ had been integrated into Credit Suisse Asset Management.

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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.