Fire insurance companies' fire marks in the Art Gallery of South Australia collection, Peter Lane

Article from Vol 39 no 4, Nov 2017

Fire insurance companies' fire marks in the Art Gallery of South Australia collection, Peter Lane

Abstract:

Few of us spend enough time cataloguing, photographing and managing our collections – subjects we will address in future issues. The Art Gallery of SA’s collection of “fire marks” put out by insurance companies has been in storage for over 70 years, but now they have been photographed, and catalogued by the Gallery’s indefatigable honorary numismatist, Peter Lane.

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