Sun Fire Office Pocket Memorandum Notebook and Almanac (Rare 1913 Unused Promotional Variant Issued for the Birmingham Branch, 10 Bennett's Hill)
Language: English
Published by Sun Fire Office Chief Office, Threadneedle Street, London E.C. / Birmingham Branch: 10 Bennett's Hill, 1912
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: BiblioFile, Cadole, FLINT, United KingdomBiblioFile
AbeBooks seller since March 20, 2020
Condition: Used - Very good
£ 65.00
Quantity: 1 available
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First Edition, issued late 1912 for the 1913 operating year. An exceptionally rare, historically important, and completely unused corporate pocket memorandum ledger and almanac issued by the historic Sun Fire Office, universally recognized as the oldest insurance company in the world.The booklet features an incredibly bold, striking, and vibrant Art Nouveau decorative design block to the upper card cover, beautifully centered around the insurance house's iconic corporate emblem: a stylized, blazing golden sun displaying a highly detailed human facial expression.The upper margin reads: "Founded 1710 / SUN FIRE OFFICE / CHIEF OFFICE THREADNEEDLE ST LONDON E.C." The lower margin is custom-printed with localized branch data reading: "Birmingham Branch, 10 Bennetts Hill". The interior layout opens with a detailed advertisement for the Sun Fire Office to the inner upper cover and facing Page 1, opening immediately into 24 completely blank, unruled, and identical premium paper leaves designed for personal ledger entries. The rear inner pastedown houses a pristine, complete calendar for the full year of 1913 alongside an extensive table of contemporary Edwardian postal information.Condition Report:A remarkable, pristine survivor in solid Very Good plus condition. The original card covers retain an exceptionally bright, clean, and vibrant color profile, exhibiting only expected, light uniform cosmetic rubbing to the exterior extremities and spine fold. The stapled binding is completely tight, square, and strong. Internally immaculate; the 24 blank diary pages are crisp, white, and completely untouched, entirely free from the pencil marks, ink scoring, or finger-marking that normally ruins early pocket diaries. Unmarked by any contemporary ownership names or inscriptions. An archive-grade, pristine artifact of British corporate history.2 text/advertising leaves, followed by 24 identical blank memorandum pages, concluding with the calendar pastedown matrix.Inner back cover houses the complete 12-month calendar grid for 1913, flanked cleanly by the official domestic and international postal rates.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Sun Fire Office Pocket Memorandum Notebook and Almanac (Rare 1913 Unused Promotional Variant Issued for the Birmingham Branch, 10 Bennett's Hill)
- Author
- Sun Fire Office (Corporate Publisher)
- Publisher
- Sun Fire Office Chief Office, Threadneedle Street, London E.C. / Birmingham Branch: 10 Bennett's Hill
- Publication year
- 1912
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- Edition
- First Edition Thus
- Dimensions
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Business Planning; Business, EPHEMERA, Local History { Birmingham / Midlands ]
BiblioFile
Cadole, FLINT, United Kingdom
AbeBooks seller since March 20, 2020
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