An antique American Certificate For 100 Shares of The Common Stock of The Lake Torpedo Boat Company Issued to Rich G. Hollaman Dated October 4, 1916. Signed by Simon Lake. Simon Lake (American, 1866-1945) was a Quaker American mechanical engineer and naval architect who obtained over two hundred patents for advances in naval design and competed with John Philip Holland to build the first submarines for the United States Navy. Numbered 6288 upper left. Marked, stamped, impress with a gold stamp, and signed on the front and on the back. Antique and vintage securities, stocks, bonds, certificates State, city, government loans, and collectibles.