NATIONAL TEA CO......1930 COMMON STOCK CERTIFICATE

Description

Beginning with one store on North Avenue in 1899, National Tea became the region's largest retail grocery chain. By 1920, when there were about 160 stores in the chain, annual sales approached million. By the end of the 1920s, National Tea had over 600 locations in the Chicago area and another 1,000 stores nationwide; sales had grown to about million a year. Many of these stores were closed or sold during the Great Depression, but National Tea remained among the 10 largest grocery chains in the United States for most of the twentieth century. During the 1950s, it acquired about 500 new stores by buying up smaller chains. In 1956, when annual sales topped 0 million and the company had nearly 20,000 employees nationwide, National Tea was purchased by George Weston Ltd., a Canadian company
Common  Stock Certificate Number NC4647.....Dated March ,1930.....For 100 Shares....In Favor of Morrison & Townsend.........Printed by American Bank Note Company........ Attractive olive green  border......Very nice vignette featuring a seated woman, arm outstretched resting on books with an oil lamp next to her ...........There are two staples embedded in the left hand side of the certificate
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