Beautifully engraved specimen certificate from
Teledyne, Inc. printed around 1970. This historic document was printed by the Jeffries Banknote Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of an allegorical babe with an eagle in her hand. This item has the printed signatures of the Company’s President (George Roberts) and Secretary and is over 36 years old.
Certificate Vignette
Teledyne Technologies Incorporated is a leading provider of sophisticated electronic and communications products, including components and subsystems for wireless and satellite systems, and data acquisition and communications equipment for airlines and business aircraft. They also provide systems engineering solutions and information technology services for space, defense and industrial applications, and manufacture general aviation and missile engines and components, as well as on-site power generation systems
History from OldCompanyResearch.com
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.