Archives International Auctions Sale 59 U.S., Chinese & Worldwide Banknotes, Scripophily, and Security Printing Ephemera and Historic Ephemera May 7, 2020

Archives International Auctions - Sale 59 78 May 7,2020 Archives International Auctions www.archivesinternational.com Scripophily - Industry & Manufacturing 428 428 Esterbrook Pen Co., 1967 Specimen Stock Certificate. Delaware. Odd Shares Common Stock Specimen Certificate, Black print on green border and underprint, Company title at center with portrait of founder Richard Esterbrook at center, Pin punch cancelled, VF-XF condition, E.A. Wright BNC. The Esterbrook Pen Company is a former US manufacturing company founded by English immigrant Richard Esterbrook and based in Camden, New Jersey. It was the largest pen manufacturer in the United States, having reached a record of producing 216,000,000 pens a year. The company produced dip pens, then concentrating on fountain pens until it was acquired by Venus Pencils in 1967, ceasing activities in 1971. In 2014, Harpen Brand Holdings, LLC, acquired the rights to the “Esterbrook” brand name, releasing a series of pens. Four years later, the brand was purchased by Kenro Industries, which is its current owner and holder, manufacturing the Esterbrook pens in Kenro’s plant of Mineola, New York. ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $35-60 Scripophily - Guns & Gun Powder 429 429 Hercules Inc 1972, Unique Production Mock-up Proof by design department. Delaware, 1972, 100 Shares, Proof mockup pasted on thin card with plastic cover with markings on the outer cover, Elements of design and text pasted onto the card. Black on yellow border and underprint, Hercules holding club at top left, Unique in archives. SCBNC. Hercules, Inc., was a chemical and munitions manufacturing company based in Wilmington, Delaware, incorporated in 1912 as the Hercules Powder Company following the breakup of the Du Pont explosives monopoly by the U.S. Circuit Court in 1911. Hercules Powder Company became Hercules, Inc. in 1966, operating under this name until 2008, when it was merged into Ashland Inc. An earlier Hercules Powder Company was formed in 1882 by DuPont and Laflin & Rand Powder Company. This company was dissolved on June 30, 1904. Hercules was one of the major producers of smokeless powder for warfare in the United States during the 20th century. At the time of its spin-off, the DuPont Corp. retained the processes and patents for the production of “single-base” nitrocellulose gunpowders, whereas Hercules was given the patents and processes for the production of “double-base” gunpowders that combined nitrocellulose and nitroglycerine.������������������������������ Est. $300-450 430 430 Hercules Inc., 1971 Production Specimen and Progress Proof Stock Certificate Pair Delaware. Lot of 2 Stock certificates, Includes a >100 Shares Common Stock Progress Production specimen with notations of changes written on the certificate and also the vignette and text progress proof in black without border. Black print on pink border and under print with archival notes in margin and specimen overprints. Both are VF-XF condition. Hercules, Inc., was a chemical and munitions manufacturing company based in Wilmington, Delaware, incorporated in 1912 as the Hercules Powder Company following the breakup of the Du Pont explosives monopoly by the U.S. Circuit Court in 1911. Hercules Powder Company became Hercules, Inc. in 1966, operating under this name until 2008, when it was merged into Ashland Inc. (2) ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� Est. $140-280 431 No Lot,