Found by Michael Fallone in the Glasgow area.
Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow.
(SBH – Note – There are very slight variations in the position of lines 2 and 3 of text to the top line).
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Below – The same stamp on a shaped brick. Found by Michael Fallone in the Glasgow area.
Below – Virtually, the same stamp and frog found on 3 bricks found by Michael Fallone in the Glasgow area. All three have a groove to the left-hand side of the frog. This groove is on the front and back of the brick. One brick is plain and wider than the other two. One brick has a blue enamelled stretcher face and the other has a white enamelled stretcher face.
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Below – Virtually the same stamp on a bullnose brick. Found by Michael Fallone in the Glasgow area.
Below – The same stamp on a brick on which all sides are salt glazed. Found in Muirhead, Lanarkshire.
Found by Michèle Côté and Marc Trudel on the beach along the Gaspé shore of Percé, Québec Canada. The ‘Gartcraig’ brick is most definitely Scottish. It was found near to a brick stamped ‘Vulcan’ which may also be Scottish as ‘Vulcan’ is a trademark of Campbell & Co, Roughcastle Fireclay Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. (However, ‘Vulcan’…
Found by Joe Fletcher at “Turonville” in Tarana, NSW Australia. The property is a farm dating back to the 1850s. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. . . . .
The following Scottish bricks were found by Tracie Perrie on the shore at Borden, Prince Edward Island, Canada. Below – ‘Glenboig’. Glenboig Union Fireclay Company, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Alternative brickworks include: Glenboig Star Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Glenboig Fireclay Works, (Old Works) Glenboig, Lanarkshire Below – ‘Gartcraig Scotland Gaskil’. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow….
Found by Jeffrey Valli on the railroad tracks in Truro, Massachusetts, USA. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. . . . .
Found by Theresa Wentzell on Oxner’s beach Riverport, Nova Scotia, Canada. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. . . . .
Found by Ray Thorn at Grandbay, New Brunswick, Canada. Note the thumbprint to the top right. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. . . . .
Found by Len Baird in East Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA. Len states – I have found GartCraig brick pieces in East Lebanon, New Hampshire at the remains of a former slate mill from the mid-19th century. It is immediately adjacent to what used to be the Northern Railroad which came from Boston up through New…
Many thanks to Debbie Clipperon for the following information. Debbie states – In the 1800’s our village was pretty much settled by Scottish settlers and shipbuilding and lumber were our main industries. (Gone now) but the story goes, that the sailing ships would come and go from Scotland, full of broken bricks for ballast, dumped…
Many thanks to Steve Wraith for the following information. Steve states – My family and I went camping for the weekend, my father-in-law located a pile of bricks on the dried-up bottom of a lake in the Interior of BC called Sugar Lake., Canada. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. . . .
Found by Wayne Stone in Monroe, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. This example is not in my possession. Gartcraig Fire Clay Works, By Millerston, Glasgow. (Note – SBH – I believe the stamp is Gaskil as opposed to Caskil. I believe Gaskil may refer to a ‘shortened’ version of Gas Kiln. This is only a theory…
