**Exhibit 4.1**

 

**[OPTICAL CABLE CORPORATION LOGO]**

 

 

THIS CERTIFIES THAT 

 

 

 

IS THE OWNER OF 

 

 

**FULLY PAID AND NONASSESSABLE SHARES OF COMMON STOCK OF**

 

OPTICAL CABLE CORPORATION (the “Corporation”) transferable on the books of the Corporation by the holder hereof in person, or byduly authorized attorney, upon surrender of this Certificate properly endorsed. This Certificate not valid unless countersigned by the Transfer Agent and registered by the Registrar. 

 

Witness the facsimile seal of the Corporation of the facsimile signatures of its duly authorized representatives. 

 

Dated: 

 

/s/ Neil D. Wilkin, Jr. 

President 

 

 

/s/ Tracy G.Smith 

Secretary 

 

**[OPTICAL CABLE CORPORATION CORPORATE SEAL]**

 

**OPTICAL CABLE CORPORATION**

 

The Corporation will furnish to any stockholder on request and without charge a full statement of the designations and anypreferences, conversion and other rights, voting powers, restrictions, limitations as to dividends, qualifications and terms and conditions of redemption of the stock of each class which the Corporation is authorized to issue, or of the differencesin the relative rights and preferences between the shares of each series of a class in series which the Corporation is authorized to issue, to the extent they have been set, and the authority of the Board of Directors to set the relative rights andpreferences of subsequent series or classes. Such request may be made to the Secretary of the Corporation or to its Transfer Agent. 

 

The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of this certificate, shall be construed as though they were written out in full according toapplicable laws or regulations: 

 

TEN COM - as tenants in common 

 

TEN ENT - as tenants by the entireties 

 

JT TEN - as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common 

 

TOD - transfer on death direction in event of owner’s death to person named on face

 

UNIF GIFT MIN ACT -                 as Custodian for                  under Uniform Gifts to

      (Cust)                               (Minor)

Minors Act                 

  (State) 

 

UNIF TRAN MIN ACT -                  as Custodian for                 under Uniform Transfers 

        (Cust)                                  (Minor) 

to Minors Act                

      (State) 

 

Additional abbreviationsmay also be used though not in the above list. 

 

For valuereceived,                      hereby sell, assign and transfer unto 

 

Please Insert Social Security or 

OtherIdentification Number of Assignee 

 

 

(Please print or typewrite name and address, including zip code, of Assignee) 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                                                                                                         shares of the capital stock represented by the within Certificate, and do hereby irrevocably constitute and appoint 

 

                                                                                                                                         Attorney to transfer the said stock on the books of the written named Corporation with full power of substitution in the premises.

 
Dated:                                           X                                                                         X                                                                         
NOTICE: THE SIGNATURE(S) TO THIS ASSIGNMENT MUST CORRESPOND WITH THE NAME AS WRITTEN UPON THE FACE OF THE CERTIFICATE IN EVERY PARTICULAR,WITHOUT ALTERATION OR ENLARGEMENT, OR ANY CHANGE WHATEVER.
                          SIGNATURE(S) GUARANTEED:                                                            
THE SIGNATURE(S) SHOULD BE

GUARANTEED BY AN ELIGIBLE

GUARANTOR INSTITUTION (BANKS, STOCKBROKERS, SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS ANDCREDIT UNIONS WITH MEMBERSHIP IN AN APPROVED SIGNATURE GUARANTEE MEDALLION

PROGRAM, PURSUANT TO S.E.C.

RULE 17Ad-15.