![[Item #32067] Broadside: This is the Size and Style of Letters used on our Patent Guide Boards. BERLIN 4 / M. BERLIN IRON BRIDGE CO.](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/32067.jpg?auto=webp&v=1482964404)
Broadside: This is the Size and Style of Letters used on our Patent Guide Boards. BERLIN 4 / M
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.
Price: $200.00
