Footprints of Assurance

Book

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St. Joseph Museums

Name/Title

Footprints of Assurance

Entry/Object ID

L9999.999.1082

Description

Footprints of Assurance is is a comprehensive and complete record of fire marks used by fire insurance companies in sixty-three countries. These fire marks were attached to buildings by insurance companies to indicate those for whom they wrote policies. Some "European fire assurance concerns maintained their own fire brigades whose function was to fight fires only at those properties protected by their parent companies whose mark they displayed." These symbols were posted on the exterior of insured buildings. These symbols are also highly collectible. The science of collecting these marks is called "Signeviery." Included in this volume are not only American marks, but British marks and those of 63 foreign countries around the world. 319/Hardbound/Illustrations

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Fire fighting, Insurance

Search Terms

Insurance, Fire insurance, Fire Marks, Signeviery (Science of collecting Fire Marks), North American--United States, Latin American, European, African, Asian, Australia & New Zealand, 17th & 18th Century, 19th Century, 20th Century, Cultural

Book Details

Author

Bulau, Alwin E.

Place Published

City

New York City

State/Province

New York

Date Published

1953

Call No.

GenHist BU

Notes

Copy No.: 1

Condition

Overall Condition

Good