John Johnson Collection: pre-1960 ephemera Insurance Index created by JAL 12/98 This section has not been catalogued or digitised. Boxes 1-8 Insurance Companies (arranged alphabetically) Please note: materials are arranged chronologically. Dates given below signify the beginning and end dates (only). Box 1 A - C Accident Insurance Company 1895 Aegis n.d. Albert Insurance Company Limited, [1864] Alfred Life Assurance Association, 1849 Albion (engraved signs), 1806-[1810] + n.d. Alliance 1847-53 + n.d. Amicable 1726-1838 Argus Life Assurance Company 1834-38 Army & Navy Auxiliary Co-operative Supply Limited 1906 Asylum Life Assurance Company 1827-30 Atlas Assurance 1824-1951 Australasian Colonial & General Life Assurance and Annuity Company 1946 Beacon n.d. (engraved sign) + 1937 Benefit Societies Asylum 1837 Birmingham Fire Office 1848 Boiler Inspection & Insurance Company of Canada n.d. Britannia Life Assurance Company n.d. British Commercial Insurance Company [1836] + n.d. + engraved sign British Dominions General Insurance Company n.d. British Empire Mutual 1884 British Equitable Assurance Company 1860-88 British Fire Office 1799-1801 + n.d. (includes engraved sign) British Insurance Association 1968 British Museum Attendants Mutual Life Assurance Society 1894-98 British United Provident Association 1959 + n.d. Briton n.d. Caledonian Insurance Company 1844-96 + n.d. Century Insurance Company Ltd. n.d. See also Friends Provident & Century 1
Church of England Assurance Association 1852-96 + n.d. City of Glasgow 1876 City Safe Deposit and Agency Company 1892 Civil Service Insurance Society 1893-96 Box 2 C continued - E Clerical, Medical, and General Life Assurance Society 1825(?)-1912 Colonial Life Assurance Company 1848 Commercial Union Assurance Co., Ltd. n.d. Co-operative Insurance Society, Limited 1901 + n.d. County Fire Office 1819-1852 + n.d. Crown Fire Office, Bristol (engraved sign) Crown Life-Assurance Company 1828(?)-1846 The Devizes Mutual Insurance Society 1784-1833 by E. Nugent Linaker District Fire Insurance Company 1848 Dublin Insurance Office 1807 Eagle and Protector Life Assurance Company 1847 Eagle British and Colonial Life Assurance 1807-1900 + n.d. Eagle Insurance Company n.d. Eagle Life Assurance Company 1847 Eagle Star 1932 + n.d. East Kent and Canterbury Economic Fire Assurance Association n.d. Ecclesiastical Insurance Office n.d. Economic Life Assurance Society [1829]-1905 + n.d. Edinburgh Life Assurance Company 1837-1903 + n.d. Employers Liability Assurance Corporation n.d. England Assurance Institution 189_ + n.d. English Company for Insuring Children s Fortunes n.d. English Scottish Law Life Assurance Association 1885 English Widows Fund & General Life Assurance Association 1848 European Company, for Life Insurances n.d. Equitable Accident Co. n.d. Equitable Assurance Office 1816(?) Equitable Life Assurance Society 1880-95 Equitable Society 1837 European Assurance Society n.d. + 1863-67 (receipts) 2
Box 3 F - L Family Endowment Society 1836?-41 Fine Art Insurance Company 1892 + n.d. Freemason s & General Life Assurance, Loan, Annuity, and Reversionary Interest Company n.d. Friends Provident & Century/ Friends Provident Institution c.1907-59 + n.d. Friends Provident Insitution 1888 + n.d. General Accident Assurance 1904-193_ + n.d. General Assurance on Lives (Society for) 1848 General Reversionary & Investment Company n.d. Globe Insurance Company 1803-51 Gloucestershire Fire and Life Assurance Company 1825? Great Britain Mutual Life Assurance Society 1848 Gresham Life Assurance Society 1875-81 Guardian Assurance Company 1825? Guardian Fire and Life Assurance Company 1872-99? Hand-in-Hand Fire Office 1742-1901? Hercules Insurance Office 1848-64 Health Insurance Corporation Limited n.d. Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire, and General County Fire Assurance Company n.d. Home Investment and Annuity Company 1826 Hong Kong Fire Assurance Company, Limited 1924 Hope Assurance Company 1812-37 Hope Fire Policy (engraved sign) Imperial Accident, Live Stock and General n.d. Imperial Insurance Office 1803-98 + n.d. Independent West Middlesex Assurance Company Lancashire & Yorkshire Accident Assurance Co. Ltd. 190_ Lancashire Insurance Company 1884 Law Accident and Contingency Insurance Society, Limited 1892 Law Guarantee and Trust Society 1895-1905 Law Life-Assurance Society 1825-83 Law Union & Crown Insurance Company c.1896 Legal and General Life Assurance Society 1837-1937 + n.d. Letts Diaries Company1914-28 see also Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation Licensed Victuallers General Fire and Life Assurance Company 1837 Life & Fire Assurance Company 1887-89 Life Association of Scotland 1869-84 Liverpool & London Fire & Life Insurance Company 1862-1931 (1931 is Domestic Servants Insurance) see also United Kingdom Life Assurance Company Liverpool Victoria Legal Friendly Society 1879 3
Box 4 L continued - N London & Lancashire Fire Insurance Company1905 London & Paris Exchange Limited n.d. London Assurance 18th c. (Undated)-1890 + n.d. London City and Midland Executor and Trustee Company Manchester Assurance Office 1825 + n.d. Medical Invalid & General Life Assurance Society 1848 Mentor Life Assurance Company 1853 + n.d. Metropolitan Life Assurance Society 1842 + n.d. Midland + Counties Insurance Company 1856 + n.d. Minerva Life Assurance Company 1863 + n.d. Minerva Universal Insurance n.d. Monarch Insurance Company Limited c.1870 Mutual Assurance Society n.d. Mutual Life Association of Australasia n.d. Mutual Life Assurance Society 1859 (article) + 1868-74 + n.d. Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York 1893-1903 + n.d. (includes series of prints) National Guardian Assurance Society 1852 National Loan Fund 1840-43 + n.d. National Mercantile Life Assurance Society 1846 National Mutual Life Assurance Society 1898-1923 National Mutual Life Association of Australasia 1903-37 + n.d. National Provident Assurance 1869-87 National Service Life Insurance (USA) 1948 Navigators and General Insurance Co. 1928 New National Assurance and Loan Company n.d. New York Life 1879-89 North British &Mercantile Insurance Company 1862-92 North British Insurance Company [1833]-48 North of England Fire & Life Assurance Company, 1848 Northern Assurance Company 1888-94 Box 5 N continued - Q Norwich Equitable Fire Assurance Society (engraved sign) Norwich Union/Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society, Norwich Union Life Insurance Society 1812-53 Oak Mutual Life Assurance & Loan Company n.d. Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corporation 1909-10 + n.d. Oxford & Cambridge Insurance Company 1924 4
Palatine Insurance Co n.d. Palladium Life and Fire Assurance Society n.d. Pearl Assurance Co n.d. Pelican Life Insurance Office 1801 + n.d. (engraved signs), 1813-14, 1842-46 + n.d. Perpetual Assurance Amicable Society (engraved sign) Phoenix Company or New Fire Office 1782-85, 1869-93 + n.d. + 1804 (print) + engraved signs (5) Positive Government Security Life Assurance Company 1886 Property Protection Society 1850 Protector Endowment Loan & Annuity Company 1825-36 + n.d. Protestant Dissenters & General Life and Fire Assurance Company (engraved sign) Protestant Dissenters Life and Fire Insurance Company 1837 Provident Association of London 1901-04 Provident Insurance Company (engraved sign) Provident Institution n.d. Provident Life Office 1820-88 + n.d. Provident Mutual Life Assurance Association n.d. Prudential Approved Societies 1912 Prudential Assurance Company Limited 1890-1952 + n.d. Prudential Insurance Company of America 1946 Queen Insurance Company 1863 Box 6 R - S Railway Passengers Assurance Company 1858-1908 Refuge Assurance Company 1897 + n.d. Rent Guarantee Society 1851 Rock Life Assurance Company 1819(?)-1899 Royal Exchange Assurance 1726-1934 + engraved signs (4) Royal Insurance Company 1847(?)-1888 Royal Naval, Military & East India Life Assurance Society 1851 Royal Union Association 1827 + n.d. Royal United Service Institution 1893 Salop Fire Office (engraved sign) Schools Comprehensive Policy n.d. Scientific Saving 1926?, 1948? Scottish Accident Insurance Company 1890 Scottish Amicable (Mutual) Life Assurance Society 1864-88 + n.d. Scottish Boiler Insurance Company 1894 Scottish Equitable Assurance Society 1835-67 Scottish Imperial Insurance Company n.d. 5
Scottish Metropolitan Assurance Company 1944-52 + n.d. Scottish National Insurance Company 1863-72 Scottish Provident Institution 1855-1905 Box 7 S continued Scottish Union Fire Life Insurance Company/Scottish Union Insurance Company 1865-1894 + n.d. Scottish (Widows Fund) Life Assurance 1837-1940 see also Mutual Assurance Society Shopkeeper s Insurance Union n.d. For Society for General Assurance on Lives see under General Sons of Temperance Benefit Society 1899 + n.d. Sovereign Life Assurance Company 1845 Standard Life Assurance Company 1873-96 Standard of England Life Assurance n.d. Star Life Assurance Society 1880-89 Stationers Mutual Benefit Society 1854 Sun Fire-Office 1718-1898? + n.d + engraved signs (5). Sun Life 1887-1956 + n.d. Surrey, Sussex, and Southwark, Fire and Life Assurance Company 1826? Box 8 T - Z Theatres Mutual Insurance Company Ltd 1954 + n.d. Travellers & Marine Insurance Company 1858 Travellers Insurance Association 1968 + n.d. Union Fire & Life Office 1818 Union Office/Union Assurance Office 1817-37 + engraved signs (2) United Empire and Continental Life Assurance Association [1824] United Kingdom Temperance and General Provident Institution 1855-95 University Life Assurance Society 1833-93(?) Victoria Mutual Assurance Society n.d. Waterloo Mutual Fire Insurance Company n.d. West of England Fire & Life 183_ - 82 + n.d. West of Scotland Insurance Company,18 (receipt book) Westminster Fire Office, 1910 Westminster Society n.d. York and North of England Assurance Company 1835-36 6
York Benevolent Society 1840 Yorkshire Fire and Life Insurance Company n.d. Engraved Signs of the insurance companies unidentified (identified signs are kept in Boxes 1-8 alphabetically under the insurance company) Historical and Miscellaneous Fire Marks etc No Box 9 Box 10 Special Insurances Church Plate Ecclesiastical Insurance Office, Ltd (NB printed by Chiswick Press) Farmers: General Farmer s and General Fire and Life Insurance, 1840-41 + n.d. Farmers: Hail General Hail Storm Insurance Society and Norfolk Farmers Cattle Insurance Society, 1848 Motor Cars Beacon, 1937-39 (1939 is Motor Cycle Policy) General Accident Fire & Life Assurance Corporation Limited, 1929 Royal Exchange Assurance 193_ Royal Insurance Company Limited, 1925-26 White-Cross Insurance Company, 1914 Box 11 Special Insurance continued Motor Cycles Marine Insurance Lloyd s 7
Friendly Societies Box 12 Friendly Societies continued Box 13 Building & Benefit Societies; Booklets Old Age Pensions: Pamphlets, etc. Box 14 National Health Insurance Box 15 Tontines Insurance folders Folder I Miscellaneous and general items Insurance and assurance companies A - N Folder II Insurance and assurance companies P - Z Share certificates 8