Beautiful engraved Stock Certificate from The Pennsalt Chemical Corporation issued prior to 1964 for shares of common stock. This cancelled certificate has an ornate border with a vignette of two allegorical figures next to the company name and logo. This certificate is has a printed signature of the President and Treasurer of the company. ATOFINA Chemicals, Inc., was formed in June 2000 following the merger of TotalFina and Elf Aquitaine. ATOFINA Chemicals was formerly Elf Atochem North America, which was formed at the end of 1989 through the merger of Atochem, Inc., M&T Chemicals, Inc., and Pennwalt (fromally Pennsalt) Corporation. From 1989 to the end of 1991 the company was known as Atochem North America, Inc. From 1992 to 2000 it was known as Elf Atochem North America, Inc. Atochem, Inc., a manufacturer of industrial and specialty chemicals, was formed in 1984 as the U.S. chemicals unit of Elf Aquitaine, one of the world's top 10 oil and gas companies. M&T Chemicals was founded in 1908 as Goldschmidt Detinning Company and became Metals and Thermit Corporation in 1918. Pennwalt, a publicly-held chemical manufacturer, was started by an enterprising group of Quaker businessmen in 1850 as the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company, producing lye and other alkaline salts from natural salts.