If a shareholder already possesses the paper certificate they can simply sign the back to a new owner and submit it to the transfer agent. If the original owner has it in book form it would have to pass through the DTC necessitating the new owner to request a certificate from the transfer agent via the new owner's brokerage company. I suspect the original block owner(s) have it in book form as do most stockholders.
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