Adolph Coors Company specimen stock certificate c1975 (Colorado)

Very rare beer brewing piece. Nice vignette of classical man, woman, and child in agricultural scene. Issued and cancelled. Specimen (printers sample) stock certificate. Circa 1975 from printers marks. Measures approximately 12 x 8 inches.

The Adolph Coors Company, founded by German immigrant Adolph Coors in Golden, Colorado, in 1873, was a pioneering American brewery that grew into a national brand, known for its iconic Golden, Colorado brewery (the world's largest single-site brewery) Eventually merged with Canada's Molson in 2005 to form Molson Coors, a global beverage leader. All the non-brewery assets of the Adolph Coors Company were spun off between 1989 and 1992.

The Coors Brewing Company managed to survive Prohibition relatively intact. Years before the Volstead Act went into effect nationwide, Adolph Coors established the Adolph Coors Brewing and Manufacturing Company, which included Herold Porcelain and other ventures, with sons Adolph Jr., Grover and Herman.

The brewery itself was converted into a malted milk and near beer production facility. Coors sold much of the malted milk to the Mars candy company to produce sweets. Manna, the company's non-alcoholic beer replacement, was a near-beer like current non-alcoholic beverages.

However, Coors and his sons relied heavily on the porcelain company and a cement and real estate company to keep the Coors Brewing Company afloat. By 1933, after the end of Prohibition, the Coors brewery was one of only a handful of breweries that had survived.

The descendant of the original Herold Porcelain ceramics business continues to operate as CoorsTek.

Founding & Growth:
Adolph Coors partnered with Jacob Schueler, bought him out in 1880, and built the brewery into a major success, even surviving Prohibition by diversifying into aluminum cans and other products.

Innovation:
They introduced the first all-aluminum beer can in 1959 and achieved national distribution across the U.S. by 1991.

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