Beautiful engraved specimen certificate from the
Badger Meter Manufacturing Company printed in 1970. This historic document was printed by American Bank Note Company and has an
ornate border around it with a vignette of the corporate headquarters. This item has the signatures of the Company's President and Secretary and is over 37 years old.
Certificate Vignette
Badger Meter, Inc. is a leading marketer and manufacturer of products using flow measurement and control technology, serving industrial and utility markets worldwide. Its products are used to measure the flow of liquids in a variety of applications. Founded in 1905, Badger Meter has earned an international reputation as a leader in the development of flow measurement technology.
Badger Meter, Inc. is publicly held. Its stock began trading on the American Stock Exchange in 1971 and is still traded there, under the symbol "BMI".
About SpecimensSpecimen 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.