Texscan Corporation - Indiana

Beautiful engraved specimen certificate from the Texscan Corporation printed in 1970. 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 President and Secretary and is over 36 years old.

Texscan-MSI was founded in 1980 from the purchase of MSI Corp.by Texscan Inc of Indianapolis Indiana.MSI (Marketing Systems Inc.) was a manufacturer of Character Generators for Cable Television Companies that enabled text overlay messaging to television viewers. Texscan Inc. manufactured electronic test equipment. After Texscan-MSI was formed they added analog commercial advertising insertion equipment to the product line. Texscan-MSI became the premier supplier of electronic advertising equipment nation-wide. Texscan Corp including Texscan-MSI was sold to ANTEC Corp. in 1995.

In June of 1998 the founder of Outsource acquired Texscan-MSI from Antec Corporation of Atlanta, GA. Outsource Engineering & Manufacturing Inc. was founded by Leonard J Fabiano (President) in Salt Lake City Utah on 23rd of February 1995. Outsource began as a manufacturer of PC enhancements products such as watchdog timer boards.

After the purchase of Texscan-MSI by Leonard Fabiano immediate development began on upgrading the character generator line of products and development of a digital ad insertion system.

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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.