Auction 64- Jewish and Israeli History and Culture

Debenture Stock Certificate of the Palestine Construction Company – Specimen – Palestine, 1938

Opening: $300
Sold for: $475
Including buyer's premium
Debenture Stock Certificate, specimen, of Palestine Construction Company Limited. Warhaftig's Press, Haifa, [ca. 1938]. Hebrew and English.
A blank certificate, stamped "Specimen", of Palestine Construction Company Limited. The certificate states that the guarantor to the company's debenture stocks is the Palestine Electric Company.
Share certificates and debenture stock certificates marked as "Specimen" were often kept by the printer as samples, when the company cancelled or changed the document and discarded the rejected version.
50.5X31.5 cm. Good condition. Small open tear to vertical folding mark. Small tears at margins. Stains. Folding marks and creases.
Provenance: Morton Leventhal Collection, New York.
The Morton Leventhal Collection
The Morton Leventhal Collection