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Beautifully engraved RARE Specimen certificate from the Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI) printed in 1968. This historic document was printed by American Bank Note Company and has an
ornate border around it with a vignette of the TCI Logo. This item has the printed signature of the Company's President, John Malone and Secretary, Paul O'Brien. This is the first time we have had this certificate for sale. 
Certificate Vignette Dr. John C. Malone is Chairman of Liberty Media Corporation, a position he has held since 1990. From 1996 to March, 1999, when Tele-Communications, Inc., (TCI) merged with AT&T; Corp., he was also Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TCI. Previous to that, from 1973 to 1996, Dr. Malone served as President and CEO of TCI. He is a Director of AT&T; Corp., and also serves on the Board of Directors for the Bank of New York, the CATO Institute, Discovery Communications, Inc., BET Holdings II, Inc., At Home Corporation and USANi, LLC. Additionally, Dr. Malone is Chairman Emeritus of the Board for Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. TCI beginnings 1956 cattle-rancher Bob Magness builds cable television system in Memphis, Texas 1957 expands system to Plainview, Texas 1957 AT&T; sells Canadian Northern Electric (later Nortel) 1958 Magness sells Texas holdings 1958 Magness, Jack Gallivan, George Hatch and Brian Glasmann establish Western Microwave network in Montana 1962 Magness buys Collier Electric cable group 1968 Western Microwave merges with Community Television cable system and becomes American Tele-Communications, with Western Tele-Communications (WTCI) and Community Tele-Communications (CTCI) subsidiaries 1968 parent company's name changed to Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI). Headquarters moved to Denver, Colorado 1968 FCC allows non-Bell equipment to be conected to AT&T; network 1969 Microwave Communications International (MCI) establishes private long distance network 1970 TCI listed on stock exchange and is 10th largest US cable network operator 1972 John Malone joins TCI from electronics manufacturer General Instrument 1973 TCI buys Foote Cone & Belding cable operations 1974 WTCI becomes second-largest US microwave common carrier 1975 CTCI becomes second-largest US cable operator, with 149 systems 1976 Time lends TCI money for terrestrial stations to receive HBO satellite transmissions 1982 TCI becomes largest US cable operator with 2 million subscribers 1982 AT&T; has one million employees 1983 Bell Canada becomes Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE) 1983 AT&T; buys 25% of Olivetti for US$260m 1984 AT&T; local operations spun off as seven Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs), aka 'Baby Bells' 1985 forms Rogers Cantel with Rogers 1987 TCI takes major stake in Turner Broadcasting System 1987 buys much of Westinghouse's Group W cable operations 1988 buys part of Storer cable group from KKR Liberty 1990 McCaw Cellular Communications acquires 52% interest in LIN Broadcasting 1990 Liberty Media formed as TCI's programming arm 1991 TCI buys Cooke Cablevision 1991 AT&T; buys NCR for US$7.4bn 1991 Liberty Media floated, with Malone having 22% of equity (41% of votes) 1991 Liberty becomes partner in SportsChannel Chicago and SportsChannel Pacific 1992 Malone forecasts 500 channel universe in speech as Anaheim 1993 TCI subsidiary QVC makes unsuccessful bid for Paramount, subsequently acquired by Viacom 1993 TCI US$35 billion merger with Bell Atlantic abandoned 1994 TCI and Guinness Peat Group (GPG) pay $117m for Australian satellite tv licence and $216m for microwave tv licences across Australia 1994 McCaw acquired by AT&T; for US$11.5bn 1994 LIN broadcasting stations spun off as LIN TV 1995 TCI swaps stake in Turner for 7.5% of Time Warner 1996 death of Magness, succeeded by John Malone 1996 Liberty Satellite established to sell satellite dishes 1996 TCI, Packer and Lenfest (later Comcast subsidiary) participate in unsuccessful rescue of Australis pay tv in Australia 1996 AT&T; spins off Bell Laboratories as basis of Lucent Technologies 1996 sells NCR 1996 sells AT&T; Capital Corporation (leasing unit) for US$1.8bn 1997 TCI buys newspaper and cable group Kearns-Tribune (which had 7% stake in TCI) 1997 AT&T; sells Submarine Systems unit to Tyco for US$850m 1997 Liberty sells Southern Satellite Systems to Time Warner for US$213m 1999 buys 31% stake in Astrolink (promoted as the "first global wireless broadband venture") for US$425m 1999 Liberty Media takes stake in News Corporation 1999 AT&T; buys cable group MediaOne (which had absorbed the Providence Journal Co's cable operations) for US$62bn absorbed and spun off by AT&T; 1999 TCI bought by AT&T; for US$54 billion, with Liberty Media combined with TCI Ventures Group (technology investment unit) under effective control by Malone 1999 Liberty Media gains control of TCI Music (renamed Liberty Digital) through share swap of minor internet businesses 2000 Liberty takes stake in Cendant 2000 Liberty sells stake in BET to Viacom for US2 billion 2000 Liberty sells 21% stake in Gemstar-TV Guide International to News, increasing News' holding to 43% 2000 Liberty and Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventures take US$190m stake in priceline.com 2000 Liberty buys Video Services Corporation for US$125m 2000 buys 9% stake in IDT 2000 pays US$200m for 5% of Primedia 2000 buys Ascent Entertainment Group 2000 sells Ascent's Denver Nuggets NBA team, Colorado Avalanche team and Denver Pepsi Center for US$450m 2000 Liberty takes direct stake in United Pan-Europe Communications NV, subsidiary of Amsterdam-based UnitedGlobalCom 2000 Liberty buys film processor Todd-AO, renamed Liberty Livewire 2001 Liberty Media spun off by AT&T; 2001 Liberty takes US$1.4bn stake in UnitedGlobalCom/United Pan-Europe Communications cable group 2001 Liberty buys nine German regional cable networks from Deutsche Telekom for US$5bn 2001 buys Deutsche Bank's Tele Columbus and SMATcom AG cable subsidiaries for US$1bn 2001 agrees to sell its 20% of USA Networks and 27% stake in EU-based Multithematiques tv group for 3.6% of Vivendi 2001 AT&T; spins off AT&T; Wireless 2002 AT&T; sells AT&T; Broadband (ie cable tv assets) to Comcast for value US$47.5bn 2002 Liberty takes controlling stake in OpenTV, buys interest from Naspers' MIH beyond Telemundo and Corus 2002 sells stake in Telemundo to NBC 2003 buys 8% of Japanese cable company Jupiter Telecommunications (J-Com) from Sumitomo for $142m, taking stake to 44% 2003 sells Corus Entertainment shares for US$100m 2003 buys outstanding shares of Ascent Media Group 2003 buys remaining 57% of QVC from Comcast for US$7.9bn 2004 AT&T; Wireless acquired by Cingular (joint venture of RBOCs SBC and BellSouth) for US$41bn 2004 Liberty completes acquisition of controlling interest in UnitedGlobalCom 2004 increases voting stake in News to 9%, economic interest to 17%, becomes the largest shareholder in News 2004 AT&T; announces that it is no longer seeking residential customers 2004 Liberty sells stake in UK cable network TeleWest for £119m 2004 increases voting stake in News to 17% 2005 AT&T; agrees to US$16bn takeover by SBC Communications 2005 Liberty Media spins off 50% in cable channel group Discovery Communications to shareholders 2005 agrees to acquisition of SBS by KKR and Permira About Specimen Certificates 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 were 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 has grown in popularity over the past several years.
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