Found On the Clyde, Glasgow
This appears to be a firebrick and there are possible missing letters prior to the ‘savage’
There was a company called Savage and Williams in Birmingham making bricks but I believe these were building bricks.
This brick is possibly from further afield and possibly a product of the Mount Savage Fire Clay Works, Maryland, USA.
Company history.
They marked some of their bricks ‘Mount Savage’ which would probably fit the missing letters of this brick.
This brick is in the possession of Jimmy Dobson in the USA. It was found in a river in New Hampshire, USA. Allan & Mann, Port Eglinton, Glasgow. Alternative brickworks include: Rutherglen Pottery, Glasgow. Mallsmire Works, Myrtle Park, Crosshill, Glasgow.
These large open ended fire clay liners appear to be desgined to stack up and form a continuous column and are possible some sort of chimney liner. They measure approx. 662mm high x 558mm square are lying in a Salvage Yard in Glasgow, Scotland. The reference to 485 / 485 is possible associated with the…
Source – Arthur H Vinal in his book Edmund March Wheelwright and the chestnut hill, suggests that Wheelwright, Architect, used Gartcraig bricks in several buildings. “Wheelwight experimented with the pale yellow Scottish firebricks that he used back to front to expose the random black streaking from the kiln, as for instance in the palatial Larz Anderson…
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Found by Michael Fallon in the Glasgow area. Tuileries de Beauvais 6 Made in France Terracotta roof tile. . . . .
John Hicks from West Monroe, Louisiana, USA is in possession of the following Scottish bricks which were found on a premises in Malakoff, Texas USA. Their former use is unknown but all 3 are building bricks. Flemington Gilbertfield Hamilton .
Found by Michael Fallon in the Glasgow area. Sterreberg SS Courtrai, Terracotta roof tile. . . . .
Found by Michael Fallon in the Glasgow area. Tuileries de Beauvais CT Made in France Terracotta roof tile. . . . .
Found by Michael Fallon in the Glasgow area. Tuileries Reunies Beauprez & Gruyelle W Wahagnies Thumeries Nord. Terracotta roof tile. . . . .
