Antique Red Clay PRAY Brick, Robert E. Pray and Co., Greenfield MA drawing of horse and those beatific little faces

and those beatific little faces

and a total joy to grip

used condition

I would guess--and I believe it was meant to function as a pipe tamper

Antique Red Clay PRAY Brick, Robert E. Pray and Co., Greenfield MA drawing of horse and those beatific little 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