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.
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Below – 09/12/1855 – The Age Newspaper – Melbourne, Australia – Scotch – Scottish hearths – Huxley and Parkers Stone and Marble Yard, Little Collins Street East.
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07/08/1857 – New York Daily Tribune – Building materials. Garnkirk and American chimney tops, also best glazed and vitrified drain pipes at Long Island Pottery Depot, No 52 Nassau Street – E. H. Quinn – also – Encaustic tiles for vestibules, halls, hearths, dining rooms, conservatories &c Garnkirk chimney tops, drain pipes &c for sale by Miller & Coates, No 279 Pearl Street, New York.
Below – 24/05/1864 – The Morning Chronicle, Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada – Scotch Fire Brick – Merchant W.S Symonds and Co.
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03/02/1865 – Trinidad Chronicle – A. Cumming & Co, Port of Spain – The subscribers are receiving ex ship”Barbadian” from Greenock and offer for sale, deliverable on the coast if required … 19,000 building bricks … 403 earthenware pipes – 293 x 12 in, 50 x 10″ and 60 x 8 in …
09/01/1866 – Trinidad Chronicle – G & J Lambie, San Fernando – Fire bricks!! Oats!! The subscribers have on board the barque ‘John Phillips’ from Glasgow – 20,000 fire bricks and 28 puns heavy oats which can be landed at the shipping places on the coast if applied for early.
29/06/1866 – Trinidad Chronicle – Turnbull, Stewart & Co – For sale. Daily expected ex ‘Arouca’ from Glasgow … Fire and red bricks …
10/09/1867 – Trinidad Chronicle – Turnbull, Stewart & Co – For sale. Daily expected ex ‘Savanetta’ from Glasgow … red fire bricks …
Below – 01/05/1869 – Saint John Evening Daily News – St John, New Brunswick, Canada. John Devoe, 34 Water Street, St John.
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Below – 30/07/1869 – Trinidad Chronicle – G & J Lambie, San Fernando stocking 10,000 large Scotch red bricks. Also, Malm Pavior bricks and white patent fire bricks.
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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.
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Below – 03/08/1871 – Montreal Daily and Commercial Newspaper – Garnkirk Patent – Thomas Robertson, Channeville Street.
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15/11/1872 – Trinidad Chronicle – Turnbull, Ross & Co, San Fernando – Now due per ‘Mora’ from Glasgow. 20,000 red building bricks …
31/12/1872 – Trinidad Chronicle – Leon Agostini & Co, San Fernando – Ex ‘Salopian’ 23,000 Scotch red bricks …
Below – 08/05/1874 – National Republican – Washington – Details prices for Scotch sewer pipes and installation – New York and Boston.
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and
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and
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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.
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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.
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23/11/1878 – Trinidad Chronicle – Tennant’s Agency, San Fernando – On board ‘Oteon’ from Glasgow (sailed 2nd Oct) 8,000 red bricks, 20,000 fire bricks and on board ‘Mary Johns’ from Greenock – 20,000 red bricks, 10, 648 fire bricks …
Below – 22/09/1880 – Daily Alta California Volume 32, No 11118. USA.
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Below – 03/05/1883 – The Daily Bulletin – Honolulu Hawaii.
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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”
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Below – 06/05/1891 – Rock Island Daily Argus – Illinois – Scottish enamelled bricks used to build the Congressional Library, New York.
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Below – 1894 – S.L.Merchant Co, New York, USA.
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Below – 01/11/1895 – The Seattle Post – Intelligencier – Washington. Scotch firebricks for sale – Morrison & Eshelman, Yesler Building.
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Below – 26/07/1897 – The Scotsman – Interesting article about the new tariffs imposed on imports into America, as passed by the Senate and signed off by President McKinley.
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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”
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Below – 04/08/1906 – The Colonist – Scotch firebricks and fireclay. Gartcraig brand. A large supply for immediate delivery. Robert Ward & Co, Ltd, Temple Building, Victoria, Canada.
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Below – 26/11/1906 – Montreal Gazette – Francis Hyde & Co, 31 Wellington Street, Montreal – Scottish firebricks, fire clay, wet and dry ganister.
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Below – 07/01/1914 – Boultbee Johnson & Company Limited, Vancouver, Canada stock Gartcraig and Etna bricks.
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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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