Beautifully engraved Stock certificate from the North Carolina Telephone Corporation unissued for shares of Common Stock. The company was incorporated in the State of North Carolina in 1955. The certificate has an ornate border around it with a vignette of an on old dial telephone surrounded by avaition wings. This certificate is over 45 years old and will make a great addition to any collection. North Carolina Telephone Company was purchased by Allied Telephone, which changed its name to ALLTEL and most recently becamse part of United Utilities, which subsequently mushed its local phone companies together with Sprint to create a conglomerate of long distance and local with both ALLTEL and Sprint cellphones to totally confuse everyone. NC Telephone is the Sprint local phone operation at Matthews, NC 10 miles east of Charlotte...Information provided by Don Kimberlin.