Beautiful engraved specimen certificate from the Scantronic Holdings PLC printed in 1990 . This historic document was printed by United States Banknote Corporation and has an ornate border around it. This item has the printed signatures of the Company's President and Secretary. Scantronic Holdings plc designs, manufactures and distributes control, detection and data communication equipment, principally for use in the intruder alarm industry, and also for the care of elderly and disabled persons. The company's product range is marketed under the SCANPRO, MOSAIC, HOMELINK EXTRA, TWINTEC, ARROWHEAD 3 and SCANALERT names which are sold to OEM customers. It has operations in the United kingdom, France, The Benelux countries, Spain and the United States of America.
About Specimens 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 we 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 grown in popularity over the past several years.
About Specimens 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 we 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 grown in popularity over the past several years.
