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County Fire Office (Est. 1807), a bronze plaque, 218 x 169mm; Union Fire Office (Est. 1714), an oval bronze plaque by Vaughton, 215 x 180mm; a thin bronze plaque of ‘No 1 Engine’ alongside the Bulmer Stone, 227 x 100mm; The New Photographer, c. 1900, an electrotype prize plaque, 124 x 100mm [4]. First fine but somewhat bruised, others very fine; each mounted on wood for display £100-£150
The County Fire Office was absorbed into the Alliance (now the Sun Alliance and London Group) in 1906, while the Union was merged with the Commercial Union in 1907, from which time the second plaque probably dates
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