Beautifully engraved specimen certificate from India Fund, Inc. This historic document was printed by Banknote Corporation of America and has an ornate border around it with the company name. This item has the printed signatures of the Company's President and Chairman. India Fund, Inc. operates as a nondiversified closed-end management investment company. It primarily invests in Indian equity securities. The fund's portfolio comprises investments in cement; chemicals; computer hardware, software and programming, and training; consulting services; consumer nondurables; diversified industries; electricity; electronics and electrical equipment; engineering; extractive industries; fertilizers; finance; food; hotels and leisure; household appliances; media; petroleum; pharmaceuticals; retail stores; steel; telecommunications and equipment; textiles; transportation; vehicles and components; construction/building materials; and shipping sectors. Advantage Advisers, Inc. serves as the investment adviser of the fund. India Fund was founded in 1993 and is based in New York City.
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.
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.