Vintage Cast Iron Fire Horses Wall Sign Plaque 9.75 x 8.25

Description

American insurance company’s fire marks were placed on the exterior of a house and were intended to discourage malicious arson by showing that the owner would not suffer greatly if the building was destroyed. Also, it stood as a guarantee to fire brigades that the insurance company insuring the house would reward handsomely those extinguishing a blaze.
Many of the early volunteer fire companies/fire houses/hose battalions/brigades, and later, the municipal fire departments would issue their own fire plaques/marks. While the most common ones were based on the Maltese Cross Design, several fire companies based their plaques on the designs of fire marks that had been issued by various insurance companies.