Partly-printed DS, signed “J. Paul Getty,” one page, 13.75 x 8, November 4, 1933. Stock certificate issued to Frank Whitworth, Jr., for one share in the Oklahoma Oil Corporation, signed at the conclusion by Getty as the company's president and countersigned by J. 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 the lower left, and retains the original receipt affixed at the left edge (Getty's name filled out in another hand). Impressively cloth-matted and framed with a portrait and plaque to an overall size of 31 x 23. In fine condition.
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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