🦅 American Bank Note preferred stock

This vintage American Bank Note Company stock certificate is a brown‑bordered preferred issue from the 1920s–1960s, with their classic eagle vignette and a bold “PREFERRED” across the center. It’s the slightly fancier cousin to the common stock—same gorgeous engraving, but for the investors who paid up for preferred shares.

🏛️ Famous printer behind money & stocks

Founded in New York in 1795, American Bank Note printed banknotes, postage stamps, stock certificates, bonds, and traveler’s checks for clients around the world. Their own stock paper is a classic piece of Wall Street history from the company that literally printed everyone else’s money.

📄 Details

• Original American Bank Note Company preferred stock certificate (not a reproduction)

• Era: design and dated pieces like this run roughly 1920s–1960s (many are 1930s–40s)

• Color: rich brown border with black engraved text and eagle vignette

• Denomination: under 100 shares preferred (e.g., “Ten Shares” style layout)

• Size: about 12" x 8"

• Condition: vintage office‑used certificate with strong color. Circulated stocks can show normal financial handling such as ink stamps, hole or punch cancellations, hand‑written notations, and occasional documents or stubs attached—evidence of the original transaction, not damage.

🖼️ Display ideas

• Frame for an office, library, or trading desk

• Hang with the green common and orange common as an ABN color trio

• Add to a Wall Street gallery wall with railroad and bank stocks

The brown preferred is a great way to show both ABN’s engraving skill and how capital was structured—common for the crowd, preferred for the insiders.