Beautifully engraved SPECIMEN certificate from the Spelling Entertainment Group Inc. This historic document was printed by the American Banknote Company around 1994 and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of the company logo between allegorical women. This item has the printed signatures of the Company's President and Secretary. 
Certificate Vignette Spelling Entertainment Group, Inc. is a fully intergrated producer and distributor of film and television entertainment. The company operates through its subsidiaries. The company owns an extensive library of television series, mini series, movies for television, pilots and feature films which are licensed for viewing both in the United States and international markets. The distribution activities are done primarily through Worldivision Enterprises Inc. and Spelling Film International. Television distribution accounted for 83% of 1998 revenues; non-television distribution, 10%, licensing and merchandising, 4% and other, 3%.
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 and realized nice appreciation in value over the past several years.
Certificate Vignette
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 and realized nice appreciation in value over the past several years.
