Antique Red Clay PRAY Brick, Robert E. Pray and Co., Greenfield MA carved skull letter opener and a repaired front one

and a repaired front one

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often feeling as if revealing something about the interior life (of after life

but what delight

one can build all sorts of towers and bridges and houses and more

Antique Red Clay PRAY Brick, Robert E. Pray and Co., Greenfield MA carved skull letter opener and a repaired front oneThis 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