Integrity Trust Company

The Commonwealth Title Insurance and Trust Company of Philadelphia was incorporated in 1886. In 1928 it merged with the Provident Trust Company which turned its title insurance business over to a wholly owned subsidiary known as Commonwealth Title Insurance Company. The newly formed subsidiary quickly consolidated the title insurance business in Philadelphia by absorbing six local title insurance companies and assuming a new name as the Commonwealth Title Company of Philadelphia in 1929. The six companies absorbed were the Market Street Title and Trust Company, Colonial Trust Company, Integrity Trust Company, Continental Equitable Title and Trust Company, Industrial Trust Company of Philadelphia, and the North Philadelphia Trust Company. Commonwealth was sold to the Reliance Group in 1976.

The company had branches on Walnut Street (near the corner of Locust Street), Arch Street and Chestnut Street in Philadelphia.

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Certificate: Common Stock Certificate, issued in the 1930’s

Printer: Franklin-Lee Division, American Bank Note Company

Dimensions: 7 3/4” (h) x 11 3/4” (w)

State: PA-Pennsylvania

Subject Matter: Finance and Related | Banks and Credit Unions

Vignette Topic(s): Allegorical Featured | Allegorical Mercury | Allegorical Justice | Child Subject

Condition: Vertical fold lines, no cancels, and some toning and edge faults from age.