Regency Advertisements: Insurance Against Fire

PROTECTION INSURANCE AGAINST FIRE PHENIX FIRE OFFICE LOMBARD STREET LONDON The firm support which the PHENIX Office con tiniles to receive from its numerous Friends demands ththanks of the Directors This Office has ever been impressed with an ardent to give encouragement to ihe Agricultural Inter e is of the King Jom and the Directors rely that the regulations which they from time time have introduc ed for that purpose will be satisfactory to the Publis and secure the continuance of its Favour and Patron NB Persons insuring for Toree Hundred Pounds or upwards will not be chargod for the Policy By order of the Directors H A HARDY Secretary of the Country Department are

Ad appeared in October 1806 in La Belle Assemblée.

Illustration from Ackermann’s ”Microcosm of London” (1808) drawn by Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Pugin. Firefighters are tackling a fire which has broken out in houses at the Blackfriars Bridge. Teams of men operate hand pumped equipment. Image @Wikipedia

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