Bond Stores Inc. - Famous Department Store - 1940\'s-50\'s dated Stock Certificate for Sale

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Bond Stores Inc. - Famous Department Store - 1940\'s-50\'s dated Stock Certificate For Sale

$Bond Stores Inc. - Famous Department Store - 1940\'s-50\'s dated Stock Certificate$
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Bond Stores Inc. - Famous Department Store - 1940\'s-50\'s dated Stock Certificate:
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General Stock. Powerful vignette of seminude male figure pushing a large wheel. Other figures in clouds. American Bank Note Co. Available in Blue or Red. Please specify color. Bond Clothing Stores, Bond Clothes, Bond Clothiers, or Bond Stores, was a men\'s clothing manufacturing company and retailer. The company catered to the middle-class consumer. The company was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1914, when Mortimer Slater, with Charles Anson Bond and Lester Cohen, founded the stores as a retail outlet for their suit manufacturing company. Charles Anson Bond, whose name was chosen for its market value and meaning left Cleveland for Columbus, Ohio where he opened a branch of the company. Bond stepped away from active management when he was elected Mayor of Columbus in 1907. The first store featured fifteen-dollar men\'s suits. As president Slater built the concern into a million-dollar corporation, increasing the number of employees from fifty to more than 4,000. At his retirement in 1924, the concern had twenty-eight stores in large cities. Charles Anson Bond also sold his interests in the 1920s. Bond Stores, Inc. was organized in Maryland on March 19, 1937, by the consolidation of Bond Clothing Company, a Maryland corporation, and its subsidiary, Bond Stores, Inc. The principal executive offices of the corporation were located at 261 Fifth Avenue in New York City. Read more at Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.