Fire insurance marks
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Fire insurance marks were lead or copper plaques embossed with the sign of the insurance company, and placed on the front of the insured building as a guide to the insurance company's fire brigade. They are common in the older areas of Britain's and America's cities and larger towns. They were used on the eighteenth and nineteenth century in the days before municipal fire services were formed.
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- G. V. Blackstone, A history of the British Fire Service, 1957. pp 68 and plate 7
