^Lot 208 Atlas Powder Company Proof with Artwork,

DE. 1950's. Proof. Proof certificate of famous gunpowder company. 1). < 100 shs, green. Proof printed on light brown paper. Vignette of Atlas holding up the sky. Certificate was folded once horizontally. 2). 5 inch by 8 inch photograph that has been painted on and altered for final vignette design. 3). Proof vignette of same artwork, but reduced around 2/3rds from original size. Exactly the same vignette used on certificate. Atlas Powder Company was created in Wilmington, Delaware as a result of th DuPont Company divestment of two explosive divisions, as mandated by anti-monopoly enactments during the Theodore Roosevelt presidency. Unique archival proofs and artwork. SCBNC. VF.