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  2. Fire insurance mark - Wikipedia

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    The UK marks are called 'fire insurance plaques'. The first to use the mark was the Sun Fire Office which was established in 1710. [2] Some period specimens remain on historical buildings in the older areas of Britain's and America's cities and larger towns. Cast metal plaques were made of iron, lead, or sometimes brass.

  3. Commemorative plaque - Wikipedia

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    A commemorative plaque, or simply plaque, or in other places referred to as a historical marker, historic marker, or historic plaque, is a plate of metal, ceramic, stone, wood, or other material, bearing text or an image in relief, or both, to commemorate one or more persons, an event, a former use of the place, or some other thing. Most such ...

  4. Plaquette - Wikipedia

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    A plaquette (French:; "small plaque") is a small low relief sculpture in bronze or other materials. These were popular in the Italian Renaissance and later. They may be commemorative, but especially in the Renaissance and Mannerist periods were often made for purely decorative purposes, with often crowded scenes from religious, historical or ...

  5. Fireplace fireback - Wikipedia

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    The primary functions of a fireback are to protect the wall at the back of the fireplace and radiate heat from the fire into the room. The protection was especially important where the wall was constructed of insubstantial material such as daub (a mud and straw mixture coating interwoven wooden wattles), brick or soft stone.

  6. Benin Bronzes - Wikipedia

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    "The king's palace or court is a square, and is as large as the town of Haarlem and entirely surrounded by a special wall, like that which encircles the town. It is divided into many magnificent palaces, houses, and apartments of the courtiers, and comprises beautiful and long square galleries...resting on wooden pillars, from top to bottom covered with cast copper, on which are engraved the ...

  7. Keystone Markers - Wikipedia

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    Keystone Marker for Spring Run, Pennsylvania, which includes all the standard elements of the markers: 1) a light blue and yellow color scheme, 2) distance to the next town, 3) town name and origin of the name, 4) founding date, and 5) a distinctive shape, cast in iron and mounted on a distinctive pole.

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