Valspar Corporation - Delaware 1968

Beautiful engraved specimen certificate from the Valspar Corporation dated in 1968. This historic document was printed by American Bank Note Company and has an ornate border around it. This item has the printed signatures of the Company's Chairman and Secretary and is over 38 years old.

The Valspar Corporation is one of the largest coatings manufacturers in the world, providing coatings and coating intermediates to a wide variety of customers. Their products include:

Industrial coatings for wood, metal and plastic for original equipment manufacturers Coatings and inks for rigid packaging, principally food and beverage cans, for global customers Paints, varnishes and stains, primarily for the do-it-yourself market Coatings for refinishing vehicles High performance floor coatings Resins and colorants for internal use and for other paint and coatings manufacturers

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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.