Description: Delaware, 1921, $500, Specimen 15 year 7-1/2% Convertible Gold Coupon bond. Grey border. Atlas holding up globe. XF condition. Red specimen overprints, POC's and "00000" serial numbers. Coupons attached. Rare and attractive bond. Laflin & Rand Powder Company collaborated with rival DuPont in 1882 and formed Hercules Powder. In 1902 DuPont purchased Laflin & Rand, operating it as a subsidiary. In 1912, a successful Federal antitrust suit against DuPont for its prior "Powder Trust" activities forced the company to dissolve Laflin & Rand and divest a portion of its explosives business into two newly created companies, the Hercules and Atlas Powder Companies. Rare explosives and gunpowder certificate.