Beautifully engraved specimen stock certificate from Revlon, Inc. printed in 1972. This historic document was printed by the American Bank Note Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of cosmetics in the center with an allegorical woman on each side. This item has the printed signatures of the Company's Chairman of the Board ( Charles Revlon ) and Secretary and is over 47 years old.
Certificate Vignette Revlon is a world leader in cosmetics, skin care, fragrance and personal care and is a leading U.S. mass market cosmetics brand. Their products are sold in approximately 175 countries and territories. Revlon's brands include Revlon®, ColorStay®, New Complexion®, Revlon Age Defying®, Almay®, Ultima ®, Flex® and Charlie®. 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.