West of England fire insurance mark
This insurance plaque is one of nine designs issued by this Insurance company. All the plaques feature King Alfred who was the emblem for the company. The wooden mount is not original and was probably added in the twentieth century.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 217/2003/5
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Social and industrial history
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Material
- metalwood
- Common Name
- West of England fire insurance mark
- Simple Name
- fire mark
- Period Classification
- George IV (1820-1830); William IV (1830-1837); Victorian (1837-1901)
- Production Year Low
- 1807
- Production Year High
- 1894
