Stock Certificate Belknap Inc. 1980 Kentucky 260 shares Louisville seal s1

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this item is a cancelled vintage stock certificate.
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Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company
, also known as Belknap Hardware Company or simply Belknap Hardware, located in
Louisville, Kentucky
, was at one time a leading American manufacturer of hardware goods and a major wholesale competitor of retail sales companies
Sears, Roebuck, and Company
and
Montgomery Ward
. Belknap excelled both in catalog sales and widespread distribution of its own name-brand manufactured products
The company's founder
William Burke Belknap the elder
(1811–1884) was born in
Brimfield, Massachusetts
the son of Morris Burke Belknap the elder (1780–1877) and Phoebe Locke Thompson Belknap (1788–1873) and is not to be confused with
William Burke Belknap
the younger (1885–1965) or William Burke Belknap, Jr. The elder William Burke Belknap
[2]
started the company on the banks of the Ohio River in 1840. His father Morris Burke Belknap the elder
[3]
had earlier developed iron foundries and other related businesses in Massachusetts which influenced his son's founding of the Belknap Hardware and Manufacturing Company.
[4]
[5]
Morris Burke Belknap
(1856–1910), also known as Morris B. Belknap or Col. Morris Belknap, was a vice president of Belknap Hardware. and was married to Lily Buckner., the daughter of
Simon Bolivar Buckner
.
Belknap Hardware's fame spread and the company was represented at the 8th Annual Convention of the Panhandle Hardware and Implement Association in Amarillo, Texas.
[6]
The Belknaps figured prominently in the history of the
Pendennis Club
of Louisville, the first club house of which, in 1848, was a former Belknap family mansion. After 50 years, Belknap Hardware was acclaimed in the
Atlanta Constitution
as one of the South's great industries.
[7]
The company was praised in newspaper advertising by
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
as an exemplary business user of the
long distance telephone
.
[8]
By its 100th anniversary in 1940, Belknap Hardware had grown to a landmark complex of 37 buildings, covering 37 acres of floor space under one roof. The building had a network of underground passageways and covered bridges. The warehouse space alone at 129-133 N. Second Street (a building which no longer exists) was eight stories tall.
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