Kansas City Telephone Company $1000 Specimen Gold Bond

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Kansas City Telephone Company $1000 Specimen Gold Bond - 1918

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This rare Kansas City Telephone Company $1000 Specimen Gold Bond certificate is from 1918. Kansas City Telephone Company was formed from the merger of The Home Telephone Company and the Alexander Graham Bell Network in 1918. They were acquired by Southwestern Bell Telephone in 1924. The short life span of this company makes their stock and bond certificates quite rare.

About Specimens:
Specimen stock certificates are certificates that were archived by printers and the company as perfect examples of the company’s stock issue. Specimen’s can be identified by their “specimen” stamp, stamped holes spelling “specimen”, or they are often issued with a serial number of a series of zeros. Often, they are also issued with no serial number at all. Specimens can also represent a design that was never issued. All of these attributes make the specimen stock certificate rarer than the issued version of the share. Many enthusiasts collect specimens as a whole new category of Scripophily.