Description: Proof stock certificate of title, text and vignette with no borders. Purple "Cancelled" overprints. Vignette of Hercules with club. XF condition. Rare certificate with great vignette from historic Dupont spin off. Vignette of Hercules with large club. Printed on white paper. Toned paper. 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.