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<p>[QUOTE="yourturntoloveit, post: 11690, member: 57"]I "think" 13" x 17" might be a bit small for a fire(place) back, even given smaller residential fireplaces of many years ago. </p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder if this might have been a wall plaque for an educational or commercial music school perhaps. Might have been attached to a wall beside the entry door to a music school. Or, perhaps, it was on the outside of a large building at the main entry door to show passersby that a music school was inside the building.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the oldest part of my city's uptown and downtown areas there are still several buildings which have such plaques attached to (or even embedded in) the outside walls of old buildings at the street-side entrance, especially plaques for old pharmacies which all feature some form of an old apothecary figure/symbol.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="yourturntoloveit, post: 11690, member: 57"]I "think" 13" x 17" might be a bit small for a fire(place) back, even given smaller residential fireplaces of many years ago. I wonder if this might have been a wall plaque for an educational or commercial music school perhaps. Might have been attached to a wall beside the entry door to a music school. Or, perhaps, it was on the outside of a large building at the main entry door to show passersby that a music school was inside the building. In the oldest part of my city's uptown and downtown areas there are still several buildings which have such plaques attached to (or even embedded in) the outside walls of old buildings at the street-side entrance, especially plaques for old pharmacies which all feature some form of an old apothecary figure/symbol.[/QUOTE]
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