BELLSOUTH CORPORATION Stock Certificate - 1986 Now AT&T - Up to + Elsewhere

Description

Rare, vintage collectible piece of the telecom industry.  Includes an intricate and interesting vignette of Mother Earth being circled by electrons.
Other than a few minor creases, this certificate in near-perfect condition - and was printed by American Bank Note Company.  This is absolutely authentic, NOT a reproduction.  As many of you already know, paper stock certificates have for the most part gone away in favor of electronic 'book-entry' stock ownership.  Physical certificates have become very collectible, and an important part of Wall Street history.
History:
BellSouth, LLC
(stylized as
BELL
SOUTH
and formerly known as
BellSouth Corporation
) was an
American
telecommunications
holding company based in
Atlanta, Georgia
. BellSouth was one of the seven original
Regional Bell Operating Companies
after the
U.S. Department of Justice
forced the
American Telephone & Telegraph Company
to divest itself of its regional telephone companies on January 1, 1984.
In a merger announced on March 5, 2006, and executed on December 29, 2006,
AT&T Inc.
(originally SBC Communications) acquired BellSouth for approximately billion (1.325 shares of AT&T for each share of BellSouth).
The merger also consolidated ownership of
Cingular Wireless
and
Yellowpages.com
, both of which were joint ventures between BellSouth and AT&T.
With the merger completed, wireless services previously offered by Cingular Wireless were then offered under the AT&T name, and
BellSouth Telecommunications
(a subsidiary of
Bell Operating Company
) began doing business as
AT&T Southeast
.
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