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“The Gay and Lesbian stock certificate”.
Triangle Multi-Media Limited, Inc. spent millions of dollars and was organized to create and develop a network devoted to providing both television and radio programming for the gay and lesbian community. While they expected much of its subscriber base would be comprised of members of the gay and lesbian population, management also believed that quality programming about the gay and lesbian experience, designed to entertain, educate and inform, will be attractive to many other segments of the viewing public. The Company's network tried to feature radio and television programming that was directed at the gay and lesbian marketplace in the form of news, entertainment, sitcoms, and a movie of the week.
In order to attain these goals, contracts were negotiated with a national satellite provider to distribute programming, on a subscription basis. The Triangle Multi-Media Television Network would have broadcast 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. Providing distribution via satellite across the United States, including Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
Specimen Certificates are actual certificates that have never been issued. They were usually kept by the printers in their permanent archives as their only example of a particular certificate. Sometimes you will see a hand stamp on the certificate that says "Do not remove from file".
Specimens were also used to show prospective clients different types of certificate designs that were available. Specimen certificates are usually much scarcer than issued certificates. In fact, many times they are the only way to get a certificate for a particular company because the issued certificates were redeemed and destroyed. In a few instances, Specimen certificates we made for a company but were never used because a different design was chosen by the company.
These certificates are normally stamped "Specimen". Most of the time they don't have a serial number, or they have a serial number of 00000. This is an exciting sector of the hobby that grown in popularity and realized nice appreciation in value over the past several years.