PITTSBURGH BREWING Stock SPECIMEN Inc. 1899. Large Allegheny County Conglomerate

Description

Pittsburgh Brewing Company. Stock SPECIMEN ca. 1960s. Incorporated in 1899 in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Company seal lower center. Certificate for less than 100 shares of Common stock ( per share). Facsimile signatures of company chairman of the board and treasurer. Certificate is about 8” x 12.” Black print with blue overprint/underprint.
Vignette of a seated allegorical woman between agriculture (left) and industry (right).
The Pittsburgh Brewing Company was founded in 1899 through the consolidation of 12 local Allegheny County brewing firms that applied to transfer their license to the trust known as Pittsburgh Brewing Company: Wainwright Brewing Company, Phoenix Brewing Company, Keystone Brewing Company, Winter Brothers Brewing Company, Phillip Lauer, John H. Nusser, Ebhardt & Ober Brewing Company, Hippely & Sons, Ober Brewing Company, J. Seiferth Brothers, Straub Brewing Company, and the Iron City Brewing Company. In addition to these 12 Pittsburgh and Allegheny County breweries, nine breweries outside the county took part in the merger. In all, 21 breweries joined to make Pittsburgh Brewing Company the largest brewing operation in Pennsylvania and the third largest in the country at that time.
The combined facilities, worth about million, provided a capacity of more than one million barrels. In the 1970s, the Pittsburgh Brewing Company acquired the Queen City Brewing Company (1901–1976) of Cumberland, Maryland. The Queen City Brewing Company was also known as the Old German Brewing Company and included the Cumberland Brewing Company (1890–1958), which was purchased by the brewery in 1958. By 1977, Pittsburgh Brewing Company was one of just 40 breweries left in the country.
Condition:  Extremely Fine-Uncirculated
, no folds, very minor creasing, no tears, very light signs of any wear/handling/toning (see photos),
uncancelled.
Printer:
Security-Columbian Bank Note Company.
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. 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.
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