Overseas stockists for Scottish bricks – export and import.
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Below – 16/10/1844 – New York Daily Tribune – Scotch firebricks for sale – Sherman Atwater & Co, 30 Broad Street, New York.
Below – 09/12/1855 – The Age Newspaper – Melbourne, Australia – Scotch – Scottish hearths – Huxley and Parkers Stone and Marble Yard, Little Collins Street East.
Below – 24/05/1864 – The Morning Chronicle, Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada – Scotch Fire Brick – Merchant W.S Symonds and Co.
Below – 01/05/1869 – Saint John Evening Daily News – St John, New Brunswick, Canada. John Devoe, 34 Water Street, St John.
Below – 03/8/1870 – Lewiston Evening Journal – Lewiston, Maine, USA. Scotch – Scottish butt joints and shoulder pipes. James Edmond & Co, Wharf 388 – 412 Federal Street, Boston.
Below – 03/08/1871 – Montreal Daily and Commercial Newspaper – Garnkirk Patent – Thomas Robertson, Channeville Street.
Below – 08/05/1874 – National Republican – Washington – Details prices for Scotch sewer pipes and installation – New York and Boston.
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Below – 05/10/1875 – Daily Alta ( page 3 column 10) – Heatheryknowe brick. Heathery Knowe (2 words) bricks bring imported into California.
Below – 1876 – An advert within a book entitled “1776 – 1876 – Important events of the century ( USA)”
James Edmond & Co, Boston, importers and manufacturers of fire brick including Scotch brands – Garnkirk, Govan and Cardowan.
Below – 03/05/1883 – The Daily Bulletin – Honolulu Hawaii.
23/03/1891 – The Seattle Post – Intelligencier – Washington … “The Embleton discharged a part of her cargo at Schwabacher’s Wharf Saturday, unloading 170 tons of Scotch fire brick”…
Below – 10/04/1891 – Essex County Herald – Pennsylvania and 06/04/1891 The Sun, New York – The Haupt family, Shenandoah PA discover potters clay on their land of such quality as to rival the ‘famous Kilmarnock factories in Scotland”
Below – 06/05/1891 – Rock Island Daily Argus – Illinois – Scottish enamelled bricks used to build the Congressional Library, New York.
Below – 1894 – S.L.Merchant Co, New York, USA.
Below – 01/11/1895 – The Seattle Post – Intelligencier – Washington. Scotch firebricks for sale – Morrison & Eshelman, Yesler Building.
Below – 26/07/1897 – The Scotsman – Interesting article of the new tariffs imposed on imports into America, as passed by the Senate and signed off by President McKinley.
Below – 1902 – Advert – Seymour R Church, San Francisco, California, USA.
Brown Paisley, Glenboig, Heathfield, Calder – “It is a well known fact that English, Scotch and Silica fire bricks will last longer and stand more heat than any others”
Below – 26/11/1906 – Montreal Gazette – Francis Hyde & Co, 31 Wellington Street, Montreal – Scottish firebricks, fire clay, wet and dry ganister.
Below – 07/01/1914 – Boultbee Johnson & Company Limited, Vancouver, Canada stock Gartcraig and Etna bricks.
Below – 1911 – The yearbook of the Boston Architectural Club – Waldo Brothers, Boston.
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Harley Marshall a former Export Manager (1980 – 1991) at the Manuel Works, Whitecross, Scotland states that all Steins wooden packing crates had to be treated to prevent Sirex Wasp infestation before the firebricks could be exported to Australia
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Found by Paulo Hargreaves near the ruins of an old fort in Cabo Frio, State of Rio de Janeiro. Glenboig Union Fireclay Company, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Alternative brickworks include: Glenboig Star Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Glenboig Fireclay Works, (Old Works) Glenboig, Lanarkshire. .
This Thistle brick was found by Dara and Noah Hayes on the seashore off Clontarf, Dublin. This example is not in my possession. Stein, Castlecary Fireclay Works, Castlecary, Stirlingshire. Stein, Manuel Firebrick and Refractory Works, Whitecross, Stirlingshire. Stein & Co, Anchor Brickworks, Denny, Stirlingshire. Milnquarter Fireclay & Gannister Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire.
Found by Colin Campbell in the Galashiels area. Glenboig Union Fireclay Company, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Alternative brickworks include: Glenboig Star Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Glenboig Fireclay Works, (Old Works) Glenboig, Lanarkshire .
The following bricks are in the possession of Brian Latter. Brian started collecting bricks in the 1960s. He lives in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. He found many of his bricks while scuba diving in and around Corio Bay. . . . . Below – This is a photograph as forwarded by Brian. It shows bricks stamped…
Found by Ian Suddaby at the Old Bonnyside Brickworks, Bonnybridge. This example is not in my possession. Ian states – There is a piece of this small firebrick missing but it’s still an interesting find. The remaining portion measures 7″ long, 4″ wide and 2″ thick. The main stamp reads: ESSE COOKER 42″ There is…
This brick was found by Fred Kaesmacher in a recycling yard that stands on the site of a former sugar factory in St Kitts, Carribean. Fred states – The sugar factory was operated by the Saint Kitts Sugar Manufacturing Corporation. There was a large furnace on the site. . . . Below – ‘Dykehead’ –…
The following partial Scottish bricks were found by Caroline Small on the shores at the Port of Geelong, Victoria, Australia. . . . . Below – ‘Gartverie or Gartverrie’ – Gartverrie Fireclay Works, Glenboig. Below – Allan and Mann, Govan Patent, Glasgow’ – Allan & Mann, Port Eglinton, Glasgow Alternative brickworks include: Rutherglen Pottery, Glasgow….
Many thanks to Marco Machado for forwarding the following information. This brick was found near a power plant situated at the Patu Dam, Atintico Nordeste Oriental, Brazil. The dam was built c. 1919 – c. 1923. Bonnybridge Silica & Fireclay Co Ltd, Bonnybridge. alt Calder Firebrick Works, Airdrie, Lanarkshire. alt Chapelhall Works, Lanarkshire. Hepworth Ceramic…
Found by Ian Suddaby in the Bo’ness area. Left in situ due to size. Glenboig Union Fireclay Company, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Alternative brickworks include: Glenboig Star Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Glenboig Fireclay Works, (Old Works) Glenboig, Lanarkshire. .
Found by Janice Horne on the banks of the Fraser River, Mission, British Columbia, Canada. . . . . Below – ‘Gartcraig’ – Gartcraig, By Millerston, Glasgow.
