Manufacturers Hanover Corporation - New York

Beautifully engraved specimen certificate from the Manufacturers Hanover Corporation printed in 1975. This historic document was printed by American Bank Note Company and has an ornate border around it with a vignette of two allegorical women next to a globe. This item has the printed signatures of the Company's President and Secretary and is over 80 years old.






Certificate Vignette

Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company (Manny Hanny)

09/11/1905 NYS Chartered Citizens Trust Company of Brooklyn

06/28/1912 Acquire By Merger Broadway Bank of Brooklyn

08/12/1914 Acquire By Merger Manufacturers National Bank of Brooklyn

08/19/1914 Name Change To Manufacturers-Citizens Trust Company

09/10/1915 Name Change To Manufacturers Trust Company

06/15/1918 Acquire By Merger West Side Bank

06/02/1921 Acquire By Merger Ridgewood National Bank

04/29/1922 Acquire By Merger North Side Bank of Brooklyn

12/18/1922 Acquire By Merger Industrial Bank of New York

08/14/1923 Acquire By Merger Columbia Bank

03/31/1925 Acquire By Merger Yorkville Bank

05/29/1925 Acquire By Merger Gotham National Bank

05/29/1925 Acquire By Merger Fifth National Bank of the City of New York

07/29/1927 Acquire By Merger Commonwealth Bank

07/29/1927 Acquire By Merger Standard Bank

06/05/1928 Acquire By Merger United Capitol National Bank and Trust Company

01/26/1929 Acquire By Merger State Bank & Trust Company

06/26/1930 Acquire By Merger Pacific Trust Company

08/31/1931 Acquire By Merger Midtown Bank of New York

09/16/1931 Acquire By Merger Bryant Park Bank

09/22/1931 Acquire By Merger Midwood Trust Company

1932 Acquire By Merger Brooklyn National Bank of New York, The

02/09/1932 Acquire By Merger Chatham Phenix National Bank & Trust Company

06/05/1937 Acquire By Merger Equitable Trust Company of New York (1930-1937)

02/03/1939 Acquire By Merger Banca Commerciale Italiana Trust Co.

02/05/1942 Acquire By Merger Standard National Bank, Woodside, N.Y.

05/08/1946 Acquire By Merger Flatbush National Bank of Brooklyn

05/01/1947 Acquire By Merger Fidelity National Bank in New York, The

11/01/1949 Acquire By Merger National Bronx Bank of New York

10/13/1950 Acquire By Merger Brooklyn Trust Company

09/04/1953 Acquire By Merger Peoples Industrial Bank

01/31/1955 Acquire By Merger Manufacturers Safe Deposit Company

09/08/1961 Acquire By Merger Hanover Bank

09/08/1961 Name Change To Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company

06/30/1976 Acquire By Merger Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company/Mid-Hudson

06/30/1976 Acquire By Merger Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company-Suffolk N.A.

12/31/1985 Acquire By Merger Manufacturers Hanover, National Association

05/31/1991 Purchased Assets Goldome

06/19/1992 Merge To State Chemical Bank

07/14/1996 Name Change To Chase Manhattan Bank, The

11/13/2004 Convert Federal JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association

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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 and realized nice appreciation in value over the past several years.