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Click on image to enlarge picture in new window	Title		Cat no
	Dims (cm)	Dims (ins)		Weight (gms)
	Description

 

	The Eagle Insurance Company		001
	22 x 18	8 3/4 x 7 1/8		475
	London, 1807 - 1916. Originally in lead or copper.  The first office of the company was near spread eagle alley: the directors ordered an Eagle in artificial stone to decorate the frontage
	West of England Fire Insurance Co. (Exeter Variant)		002
	23 x 18	9 x 7 1/8		475
	Exeter 1807 - 1894. Originally in copper or tinned iron.  This company was set up after the small town of Chudleigh - just outside Exeter - was devastated by fire in 1807.
	West of England Fire Insurance Co. (Silhouette Variant)		003
	25.5 x 19.5	10 x 7 3/4		475
	Exeter 1807 - 1894. Originally in copper.  This company was set up after the small town of Chudleigh - just outside Exeter - was devastated by fire in 1807.
	Scottish Union Insurance Co		004
	20.5 x 17.5	8 x 6 7/8		300
	Edinburgh 1824 - 1878. Originally in copper. Alexander Henderson, Lord Provost and Master of the Merchants' Company, was the instigator of this company, and Sir Walter Scott the first governor.  By 1858 it had amalgamated to become the Scottish Union and National Insurance Company.
	Hand In Hand Fire Office		005
	20 x 19.5	7 7/8 x 7 3/4		375
	London 1696 - 1905, Originally in lead.  In 1699 the company started a fire brigade of eight watermen. Their pay was five shillings per day or night, or, for a half day or night, 'two shillings and sixpence a piece'. The Westminster Insurance Office was a breakaway venture from this company.
	General Insurance Company of Ireland		006
	21.5 x 18	8 1/2 x 7 3/4		400
	Dublin 1777 - 1825. Originally in lead. An advertisement of 1817 announced "Mills with kilns, Steam Engines, Farming Stock and Factories insured at the most moderate rates". However, the company ceased trading in 1825
	Phoenix Assurance Company		007
	27.5 x 19.5	10 7/8 x 7 5/8		450
	London 1782 - ?. Originally in lead. A group of sugar bakers started this company as it was a particularly hazardous trade to insure. On January 3rd 1782 the subscription was closed - 3000 shares at £50 having been offered. It was originally called the New Fire Office
	Phoenix Assurance Company		008
	21 x 19	8 1/8 x 6 3/4		300
	London 1782 - ?. Originally in lead. A group of sugar bakers started this company as it was a particularly hazardous trade to insure. On January 3rd 1782 the subscription was closed - 3000 shares at £50 having been offered. It was originally called the New Fire Office
	Nottingham & Derbyshire Fire & Life Assurance Company		009
	25 x 20	10 x 7 3/4		425
	Nottingham 1835 - 1869. Originally in copper or zinc. The company was started at a meeting at the Flying Horse Inn, Nottingham. The business was not restricted to Nottingham and Derbyshire, though, as there are still marks in situ on farms in Lincolnshire and Staffordshire. There was no overseas trade.
	Bath Fire Office		010
	20 x 16.5	8 x 6 1/2		375
	Bath 1767 - 1827. Originally in lead. The office was opened in Trim Street. The annual rate of premium varied between two shillings per cent for common and five shillings per cent for doubly hazardous insurance. In 1779 the company started its own fire brigade.
	Commercial Union Insurance Company		011
	21.5 x 24.5	8 1/2 x 9 3/4		550
	London 1861 - 1998. Originally in tinned iron. After the Tooley Street fire in Bermondsey, London in 1861, in which the Thames-side warehouses were destroyed, the existing insurance companies more than doubled their fire premiums for the waterside districts. A group of merchants and brokers thus formed this new company.
	Union Fire Office		012
	26 x 19.5	10 1/8 x 7 3/4		525
	London 1714 - 1907. Originally in lead, then in copper. Taken over by Commercial Union when the payments made for the San Francisco earthquake and fire drained it funds.
	Birmingham Fire Office		013
	24 x 26.5	9 1/2 x 10 1/2		675
	Originally in copper, tinned iron or brass. The company had its fire station in Union Street, comprising of an engine house, stables and firemen's cottages.
	Shropshire and North Wales		014
	23 x 23	9 x 9		525
	Shrewsbury 1836 - 1890. Originally in brass. Also available in green - please state preference. From 1844, the company restricted its business to fire insurance, by transferring its Life Assurance business to Legal and General Life Office. In 1890, it amalgamated with the Alliance British and Foreign Fire and Life Insurance Company.
	Kent Insurance Company		015
	21 x 15.5	8 3/4 x 6 1/8		475
	Maidstone 1802 - 1901. Originally in lead. William Pitt, the former Prime Minister, was a founder deputy governor. An early declinature list excluded insurance on public houses in Chatham, owing to the lively behaviour of seamen when the Fleet lay in the river Medway. the emblem is based on the arms of Kent. Hengst (the horse) was a Saxon Chieftain who invaded Kent, and 'Invictor' means 'unconquered'
	London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Company		016
	22.5 x 21	8 7/8 x 8 1/2		575
	London and Liverpool 1861 - 1961. Originally in copper. The first claim met by this company was for 16 shillings and 6 pence (6/6d), paid out on a fire in a London haberdashery shop due to an unprotected gas light. The company amalgamated with 'Royal'
	Atlas Assurance Company		017
	27 x 16.5	10 5/8 x 6 1/2		750
	London 1808 - 1959. Originally in copper. This company started with a meeting at Will's Coffee House in Cornhill and expanded so rapidly that within two years it was trading in the West Indies.
	Bath Sun Fire Office		018
	27 x 16.5	10 5/8 x 6 1/2		750
	Bath 1776 - 1838. Originally in copper. For the first thirty years the company did not maintain its own fire brigade, but relied on engines of other companies. It paid the first to arrive  at the scene of a fire one guinea, the next a half guinea, and all others five shillings