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Fire Marks from the Kraków Mutual Insurance Society

Areta — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 20:25:05 +0000

Shortly before the full-scale war started, I was working on an article about fire insurance companies that worked in Lviv (Lwów / Lemberg) in Austrian times. Thanks to this, I had learned about the Kraków Mutual Insurance Society and knew that their former headquarters still stood in Kraków. Thus some […]

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‘Obezpechyla Azienda’: Lviv’s Prewar Ukrainian-Language Fire Mark

Areta — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 12:23:32 +0000

I started working on this article in February 2022, shortly before the war started and before I ended up in Kraków for several months. *** Every day I walk to work across Lviv’s Old Town, passing Rynok Square right in front of the city hall building, down Ruska Street, then […]

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Italian Fire Mark in Mukachevo

Areta — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 19:50:17 +0000

Riunione Adratica was an Italian insurance company specializing in fire insurance and cargo-transport insurance. The company was founded in 1838 in Trieste, which at that time was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. “Almost immediately branch agencies or representative offices were opened in Athens; Budapest; Graz, Austria; Leghorn, Lugano, and Milan, Italy; Berlin; […]

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Fire Marks in Stockholm

Areta — Mon, 14 Sep 2015 20:31:24 +0000

Most of the buildings in Stockholm’s Old Town are still adorned with fire marks – plaques that showed that a building was insured in case of a fire. The signs, which depict a phoenix rising from the flames, were introduced in the 1740s. In the event of a fire, the fire brigade would […]

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Fire Marks in Winnetka

Areta — Tue, 05 Aug 2014 19:30:44 +0000

To my surprise, I found fire marks in my suburb! “Though long past are the days when the metal symbol of an insurance company affixed to the front of a house afforded its owner the only sure means of protection from loss by fire, these quaint marks are still occasionally […]

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Fire Marks in Annapolis

Areta — Thu, 31 Jul 2014 19:52:50 +0000

When I was in Annapolis I saw some oval plaques with images of trees, eagles, engines, etc. on some of the old buildings. I thought they were something exclusive to Annapolis, but when I returned to my suburb I found a couple of them there and realized it was something […]

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