Within a stylised flaming building, surmounted by a fireman supporting an exhausted colleague and titled on a brass plaque to a circular ebonised base "Victime du Devoir, Parx Raphanel". The pair of flanking figures, one modelled as a French fireman ascending a blazing staircase, his hose to the fore, titled "Au Feu....", the other depicting a French fireman traversing a roof top holding a young child, titled "Sauvee", the clock 77.5cm high, the flanking figures 60cm high. (3) This clock garniture was the property of Chief Superintendent Alexander Wall Weir, who served with Liverpool City Fire Brigade until his retirement in 1921. During his life he personally attended three thousand and one fires, including twenty which broke out in a period of forty minutes in Liverpool and Bootle during the Sinn Fein riots. Sold with facsimile photograph and press cutting.
Within a stylised flaming building, surmounted by a fireman supporting an exhausted colleague and titled on a brass plaque to a circular ebonised base "Victime du Devoir, Parx Raphanel". The pair of flanking figures, one modelled as a French fireman ascending a blazing staircase, his hose to the fore, titled "Au Feu....", the other depicting a French fireman traversing a roof top holding a young child, titled "Sauvee", the clock 77.5cm high, the flanking figures 60cm high. (3) This clock garniture was the property of Chief Superintendent Alexander Wall Weir, who served with Liverpool City Fire Brigade until his retirement in 1921. During his life he personally attended three thousand and one fires, including twenty which broke out in a period of forty minutes in Liverpool and Bootle during the Sinn Fein riots. Sold with facsimile photograph and press cutting.
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