DS, signed “J. Paul Getty,” one page, 10.75 x 8.25, November 11, 1931. Stock certificate for 16,811 shares in the Oklahoma Oil Corporation issued to J. Paul Getty, signed at the conclusion by Getty as the company's president and countersigned by Joseph B. Snell as secretary. The highly decorative certificate boasts an ornate border with vignettes of oil fields, derricks, and spouting petroleum. Embossed with a gold seal to lower left. In fine condition. An exceptional example.
J. Paul Getty's father, George, got his start in the Oklahoma oil industry in the early 1900s, and this company evidently formed part of the family's growing oil empire. The famously frugal industrialist founded the Getty Oil Company in 1942, and by 1957 had become the richest living American. He used his massive wealth to assemble a priceless collection of art and antiquities, which formed the basis of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.
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