Beautiful specimen certificate from Laser Vision Centers, Inc. This historic document was printed by the Security - Columbian Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of the company name and logo. This item has the printed signatures of the Company's Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, and Treasurer. 
Certificate Vignette Laser Vision Centers, Inc. provides access to excimer lasers, microkeratomes, other equipment, and value added support services to eye surgeons for the treatment of nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism, and cataracts. The company provides a range of value-added services to the eye surgeons using its equipment. These services include initial training of physicians and staff, technical support and equipment maintenance, marketing, clinical advisory service, patient financing, partnership opportunities, and practice satelliting. As of May 15, 2002, Laser Vision Centers, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of TLC Vision Corp. History from OldCompany.com (old stock certificate research service)
About Specimen Certificates 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 were 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 has grown in popularity over the past several years.
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About Specimen Certificates 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 were 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 has grown in popularity over the past several years.
