Fire mark
Category
Fixtures and fittings
Date
Unknown
Materials
Gilt copper
Measurements
52 mm (Width)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1335286
Summary
Plaque; Fire mark - Sun Alliance copper insurance plaque depicting the sun with human face. Mounted on outside wall of Admiral. In notebook no.5, page 34 (1340945.5) Charles Wade refers to: 'Nursery no.42 Badge of the "Sun" fire office'
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 5 Second Floor, 1944, Page 34