• Artifact of the month

    Architectural Artifact of the month (September 2019)

    I have 8 salvaged bricks with paw prints embedded into them recently purchased that came from various demolitions in St Louis Mo! Each one of these has a story but we’ll not know what it is. One brick has a fawn deer hoof print and one has what appears to be a kitten’s prints, all were pressed into the moist clay before the clay dried and firmed up.   A 9th brick has 3 prints in it;     A 10th one that happened to come from St Louis too but in 2014;     This one is the best, deepest impression, I found this one myself in 1977 at…