{"product_id":"green-1930s-irving-trust-company-stock-certificate-unveiled","title":"Antique Green 1930s Irving Trust Company Stock Certificate 🏦 Unveiled","description":"\u003ch2\u003eWho Printed Irving Trust's Certificates? 🏦 Irving Trust Company Stock Certificate, New York, American Bank Note Company\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 13 1\/2\" x 9 1\/2\" ~ Issued and cancelled. They vary a little one to the next.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"max-width:315px;margin:0 auto 20px;\"\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:177.78%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"\u003e\u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uaDW3k-WPXY\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;encrypted-media;gyroscope;picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA handsome piece of Wall Street! This is an antique 1930s Irving Trust Company stock certificate, a certificate for less than 100 shares, engraved by the American Bank Note Company with a deep green border on cream banknote paper. The black engraved vignette up top shows a seated woman holding the caduceus of commerce beside a scroll lettered ENTERPRISE, with a steamship, a sailing ship and factories along the waterfront behind her. IRVING TRUST COMPANY runs across in big bold capitals, and the company's seal, a spread eagle ringed with IRVING TRUST COMPANY, NEW YORK, sits at the bottom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e🏷️ What's Printed on It\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIRVING TRUST COMPANY\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eINCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCERTIFICATE FOR LESS THAN 100 SHARES\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eENTERPRISE (in the vignette)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eREGISTERED: THE NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, REGISTRAR\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCOUNTERSIGNED, IRVING TRUST COMPANY, TRANSFER CLERK\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY (the printer)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese are real issued certificates, signed, punch-cancelled and endorsed on the back when the shares changed hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e🗽 Irving Trust, from Washington Irving to One Wall Street\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe bank goes back to 1851, when it opened as the Irving Bank of the City of New York, named for the author Washington Irving, and it put his portrait right on its bank notes. It became the Irving National Bank in 1865, the Irving National Exchange Bank in 1907, and the Irving Trust Company in 1929, the name on this certificate. From 1913 it worked out of the Woolworth Building, and in 1931 it moved to its own tower at 1 Wall Street, the landmark Art Deco skyscraper that's now the BNY Mellon Building. Irving Trust kept its name right up until October 7, 1988, when its board agreed to merge with the Bank of New York after a hostile takeover, making the combined bank the twelfth largest in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e🏡 Display\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt looks great framed in an office or a study, and it's a perfect gift for a banker, a New Yorker, a Washington Irving fan, or anybody who loves Wall Street history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"relatedBlock\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e🔎 More From The Vintage \u0026amp; Antique Gifts Archive\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/orange-1930s-irving-trust-company-stock-certificate-treasures\"\u003eAntique Orange 1930s Irving Trust Company 🏦 Stock Certificate\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/american-bank-note-co-stock-certificate-roaring-20s-treasures\"\u003eAntique 1920s - 1960s American Bank Note Company Stock Certificate 📜 Green Eagle Vignette Wall Street Scripophily\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/american-bank-note-stock-certificates-1930s-treasures-antique\"\u003eAntique 1920s - 1960s American Bank Note Company Common Stock Certificate 🦅 Orange, Bald Eagle Vignette\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46589036003560,"sku":"VAG-8919011229928","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/2718\/4037\/files\/il_fullxfull.6218999583_nl7y.jpg?v=1785286407","url":"https:\/\/vintageantiquesgifts.com\/products\/green-1930s-irving-trust-company-stock-certificate-unveiled","provider":"Vintage and Antique Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}