Beautifully stock certificate from the Meriden Park Co. issued in 1884. This historic document has an ornate border around it with a vignette of an horse. This item has the signatures of the Company's President, Nathaniel Lyman Bradley and Secretary, and is over 129 years old.
Certificate Vignette Walter Hubbard and his brother-in-law, Nathaniel Lyman Bradley, started making cast iron clocks, tables, frames, andirons, lamps, chandeliers, sconces, and sewing birds in 1854 in Meriden, Connecticut. Before it found large success with kerosene-burning lamps with glass shades in the 1870s, Bradley & Hubbard mainly produced clocks, along with call bells and sewing machines. The company became Bradley & Hubbard Manufacturing Company in 1875. Charles Parker Company bought the firm in 1940. History from Encyberpedia and OldCompany.com (old stock certificate research service)