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Turtle: Thank you very much for the suggestion that I read the “Scat I.D.” thread!! I am still wiping the tears out of my eyes from laughter!! I can’t believe that Mr. Campbell thought he was going to get a straight answer with a set-up question like that! It sounds like something right out...

Turtle: I look forward to meeting you, but if do as you promise, won’t that make me a “gold bricker”?!?!?!?!? :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: Best regards, Jerseyman

No problem, Tom. If you can borrow a digital camera—great! If not, don’t worry about it. Whether your brick came from Sacramento or Northfield, I have learned something new about Somers Brick, for which I am very grateful to both Mts83 and Pinelandpaddler. Best regards, Jerseyman

Folks: I am glad that a goodly number of you have signed up for the dinner and/or are planning to attend the day’s festivities. Maxwell—it will be good to have you at the infamous and rowdy “Table 9” at the dinner!! Now, for those of you still on the fence or have NOT signed up for dinner...

Michael: Well, you learn something new every day! I knew about the existence of the Somers Brick Company, but I never knew they stamped their brick with identifying initials, so I really appreciate your photograph!! If Tom could supply a photograph of his brick, we could ascertain whether it...

Turtle: It is still a brick—so of course I would find it interesting. I thought, perhaps, that you had a stamped brick I had not seen before (with the “II” marking), but since the brick exhibits the usual “XX” I feel much better!! Like the Ostrander brick that started off this thread, your...

Turtle: Can you post a photograph of your Valentine brick? I am curious about the “II” you indicate is present in the stamping. Thanks! Best regards, Jerseyman

Wow, Tom—you have a brick that is very far from home! The Sacramento Brick Company of California manufactured that brick and it found its way to Atlantic County. I suspect it may be a leftover from constructing the Bethlehem Loading Company plant and the adjacent company town of Belcoville. Nice...

Bob and Scott: I am not certain, but that piece of equipment looks more like a fire starter than an extinguisher. You would pour the flammable liquid in through the hatch and a flexible pipe attached to the nipple projecting from the top of the can. Perhaps one of our fire-fighting members...

Ed: There is nothing “Dorky” in a question about bricks unless, of course, you are associated with Krazy Kat and Ignatz. Best regards, Jerseyman

Gabe: Good stuff! You are correct: the brick marked for Plainville did, indeed, come from the so-called Union Clay Works. I have one marked “Ocean County 1850” from the same works, commemorating the legislative incorporation of the county in that year. I have a newspaper clipping from the...

Turtle and Ed, et al.: Glad you enjoyed this thread! Bricks and brickmaking is one of my many special interests, so I am delighted when questions such as yours come up! I am happy to be of service. Best regards, Jerseyman

Guy: No, a number 1 firebrick is actually the lowest brick made with fireclay you can buy, which is why No. 1’s are so common. There are three types of fireclay for making firebrick: no. 1, no. 2, and no. 3. The No. 1 firebrick was the least expensive one to purchase, but also had the lowest...

Good one, Scott! Actually, the brick likely came from the Ostrander Fire Brick Company, which had its works along the Raritan River in Fords, New Jersey. A number probably appeared in the center of the brick, between the words “Ostrander” and “Raritan” to indicated the level of hardness...

Gentlemen: The correct pre-1953 designator for that particular state highway is S40 as it was a “Spur” road from the regular (and previously numbered) State Route 40, the latter highway being first planned in 1927. The initial construction phases for S40 began in 1930 from the...

Scott: Good to see you posting on the forums again and I absolutely concur with your viewpoint on archaeological sites. To augment what you wrote above, only professionals working in the Cultural Resource field can access site-specific information for both historic and prehistoric...

Spungman: Thanks for this information! My work on Atsion indicates that William Walton Fleming and his wife, Maria Lawrence Richards, lost their Atsion lands when William fled to Belgium to escape his creditors—his father being chief among them! The courts assigned William’s share of the...

Spungman: You and I have had a short conversation on the possible involvement of Charles K. Landis in Fruitland and Wheatland. For those who read these forums, I have not come across any evidence in my research for Landis’s direct involvement in Fruitland or Wheatland. Colonel William C...

Penbryn Johnrocket: Mr. Farr’s files failed to yield any information on Penbryn, but I have pieced together some data from my own research files. The place name stems from a failed subdivision planned in the first decade or so of the twentieth century. Only Penbryn Road and Reading Avenue...

I dunno folks—with the track record of modern-day meteorologists, I think this forecast is just a “snow job”!!! :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: Best regards, Jerseyman