A. S. Beck Shoe Corporation

You will receive the exact certificate pictured Guaranteed authentic Over 50 years old Common stock October 31, 1969 Issued, canceled Columbian Bank Note Company Machine printed signatures 12" (w) by 7 3/4" (h) NA Historical Context Alexander Samuel Beck, the founder of the A. S. Beck Shoe Corporation, emigrated to the United States in 1888 from his native Hungary. In 1909, in partnership with a brother, he set up a retail shoe store at 363 Fulton Street, Brooklyn. The partnership was dissolved in 1914. Mr. Beck then opened up another shoe store, this one at 845 Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint. Six years later he owned a chain of thirteen shoe stores, which he eventually sold to the Diamond Shoe Corporation for $1,000,000.In 1945 the enlarged business was sold to Saul Schiff and his associates. At its peak, the chain was composed of 147 stores in sixty cities in the East, South and Midwest.There were 18 branch stores listed in the Manhattan telephone directory in 193