Reno Trust Company

Date

1928

Location

Reno

Amount

$150

Signatures

  • A— Bell
  • Fred. B. Balzar
  • J.E. Amenda

Description

This stock certificate (No. 346) represents 150 shares valued at $1.00 each for the Reno Trust Company. Trustee Fred. B. Balzar has signed this bond. Balzar was the 15th Governor of Nevada and served as a state senate from 1927-1934.

Notable Bond Imagery

In the top left, a sitting woman dressed in a toga holds a wreath of flowers in her left hand and a shield with the thirteen stars and stripes in her right. On the bottom left side is an orange corporate seal of company.

Certificate with black and orange ink shows intricate borders, lettering, a company seal, signatures, and a vignette with a woman with a shield
Backside shows three columns showing amounts, trustees, and dates, a vignette of a woman’s profile, and an embossed seal
Transcription 
						The Reno Trust Company stock certificate reads:
Incorporated under the Laws of the State of Arizona, January 26, 1928
Filed Under the Laws of the State of Nevada, February 7, 1928
Number 346 | 150 Shares
Reno Trust Company
Capital Stock $1,000,000.00 | 1,000,000 Shares
Non-assessable
This Certifies that F. B. Balzar is the owner of One Hundred Fifty Shares of the Capital Stock of Reno Trust Company transferable only on the books of the company by the holder hereof in person or by Attorney, upon surrender of this Certificate properly endorsed. 

It Witness Whereof, the said Company has caused this Certificate to be signed by its duly authorized officers and to be sealed with the Seal of the Company this 12 day of Ap. A.D. 1928
Signed by the Secretary illegible
Signed by the President illegible

The backside of this certificate has three columns; the right column is blank, and the others read:
The Left Column
For Value Received, ____ hereby sell, assign and transfer unto ____ Shares of the Capital Stock represented by the within Certificate, and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint ____ to transfer the said Stock on the books of the within named Company with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated ______ 19__
Signed ___
In Presence of _______

The Middle Column has a vignette of a man under the title of the certificate; and the certificate reads:
Reno Trust Company
Certificate for 150 Shares of Capital Stock Issued to F. B. Balzar
Dated Ap. 12 - 1928

Accession No:

2017.002.046