Broadside: This is the Size and Style of Letters used on our Patent Guide Boards. BERLIN 4 / M.
by BERLIN IRON BRIDGE CO
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
East Berlin, CT: Berlin Iron Bridge Co, ca. 1890s. Large broadside (31.75x47cm.); previous mail folds (as issued), very slightly postally used on verso, else a Very Good or Near Fine example. Advertisement issued by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company depicting their "Patent" municipal signboards, including information on production, materials, and a price guide. Text includes extracts from pertinent New England and mid-Atlantic state laws regarding guide boards. Presumably issued sometime after 1888, the laws in Vermont having been approved November 2nd of that year. As of today many of bridges built by the Company can be found on the National Register of Historic Places. One copy catalogued in OCLC as of November, 2016, at the Connecticut Historical Society.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32067
- Title
- Broadside: This is the Size and Style of Letters used on our Patent Guide Boards. BERLIN 4 / M.
- Author
- BERLIN IRON BRIDGE CO
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Berlin Iron Bridge Co
- Place of Publication
- East Berlin, CT
- Date Published
- ca. 1890s
- Bookseller catalogs
- Posters;
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