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[CHICAGO ??INSURANCE]. A group of 16 booklets for The Conti...

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[CHICAGO ??INSURANCE]. A group of 16 booklets for The Continental Assurance and Casualty Company. Chicago, 1935?52. 16 volumes, 12mo. Original printed wrappers (some chipping or soiling). Together housed in a handsome folding cloth box with morocco lettering?piece gilt. Includes financial statements, bond and stock values, etc. Founded in Detroit in 1897, ?Continental Casualty merged with a Chicago insurer, the Metropolitan Accident Co., creating a new Chicago?based Continental Casualty that then ranked as the fifth?largest accident insurer in the United States? (Encyclopedia of Chicago).