Goodyear's Metallic Rubber Shoe Co. stock certificate 1860s (Connecticut)

Uncommon shoe company! Nice triple vignette of an eagle, Lady Liberty, and a dog (sign of trustworthiness). Unissued and not cancelled. Dated 18__ but circa 1860 from issued examples. Wrinkles and light water staining as shown. Measures approximately 9.5 x 6 inches.   

The Goodyear's Metallic Rubber Shoe Company started in Naugatuck, Connecticut in 1843 as the Samuel J. Lewis & Company (licensee of Goodyear’s patented vulcanized rubber). The Goodyear company owned a patent for producing boots and shoes from vulcanized rubber. It was claimed to be the first rubber shoe manufacturer in the world.

Charles Goodyear went into business with his father, and later started experimenting with gum elastic (natural rubber), eventually discovering the process of vulcanization. Charles Goodyear then worked at his brother's rubber company, the Goodyear Metallic Rubber Shoe Company and by 1892, there were several rubber manufacturing companies in Naugatuck. The first rubber soled shoes were developed and manufactured in the United States in the late 1800s. In 1892, nine small rubber manufacturing companies consolidated to form the U.S. Rubber Company. Among them was the Goodyear Metallic Rubber Shoe Company, organized in the 1840s in Naugatuck, Connecticut. This company was the first licensee of a new manufacturing process called vulcanization, discovered and patented by Charles Goodyear.

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