Six Cast Iron Fire Marks, and Five Marlboro Fire Department Staff Portraits, America, 19th century.

Six Cast Iron Fire Marks, and Five Marlboro Fire Department Staff Portraits, America, 19th century. Assembled group includes two oval plaques relief-molded with leafy tree motif of the Mutual Assurance Co. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one larger with later paint; one shield-form plaque relief-cast with Philadelphia Contributorship logo of four clasped hands above raised inscription 'No 906', painted black; one square plaque with shaking hands motif above '1794' with later gold paint on black ground, the hollow-molded reverse inscribed '2244'; one convex oval plaque relief-molded with fire hydrant motif inscribed 'F / A' for the Fire Association of Philadelphia; and one rectangular mark with raised initials F.P.; together with a set of studio photographs by M.H. Albee of Marlboro[ugh], Massachusetts, depicting group of five Fire Department engineers and four individual portraits, (F.P. Mark) 27cm wide x 2cm deep x 17cm high, (11in wide x 1/2in deep x 7in high) Footnotes: Provenance American Furniture & Decorative Arts, Skinner Auction No. 2509, Marlborough, Massachusetts (14 August 2010), Lots 1169 and 1171. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing