Antique Red Clay PRAY Brick, Robert E. Pray and Co., Greenfield MA blue prints with wonderfully distinctive faces

with wonderfully distinctive faces

Lots of good use left in it

amoeba-like shape

) The largest ones (shooters) measure about 3/4" in diameter

Plenty of room to fit a hand inside

Antique Red Clay PRAY Brick, Robert E. Pray and Co., Greenfield MA blue prints with wonderfully distinctive facesThis PRAY brick is the companion piece (in my mind) to the plaster Lady Victory mold I am posting today! These bricks were produced by Robert E. Pray and Co. of Greenfield, MA, founded in the 1840s and I believe in operation into the 1920s or so, with this red clay brick dating the late 19th early 20th c. I think. An excellent found object I'd say, with terrific font for the lettering, too, and which I like all the better for all of its irregularities