The Charles E. Hires Company Specimen Stock Certificate

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This Charles E. Hires Company Specimen Stock Certificate is a rare find. Hires Root Beer was created by Philadelphia pharmacist Charles Elmer Hires in the 1870s. It claimed to purify the blood and make rosy cheeks. The Charles E. Hires Company incorporated in 1890. They were purchased by several companies from the 1960s-80s before being sold to Cadbury Schweppes in 1989.

The Dr Pepper / Seven-Up Companies, Inc. was created by the merger of Dr. Pepper, Inc. and the 7Up Company in 1986. The merger took place as a bailout after the FTC blocked the merger of Dr. Pepper and Coca-Cola. It was subsequently purchased by Cadbury Schweppes. In 2008 the beverages, including Hires, were split off into the Dr. Pepper Snapple Group. In 2018 Keurig Green Mountain purchased the Dr. Pepper Snapple Group for almost $19 billion and became Keurig Dr. Pepper.

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.