The restoration of our 1895 Eastlake Victorian house
We found this brick inside the fireplace in the sitting room. (Cara wants to make the sitting room into the dining room, I know, I know.) I tried googling "St Louis V & F. B. Co. Standard" without any luck so if anyone has any info on this, please divulge.
posted by C&C at 9:09 PM
Chris & Cara were married in August of 1999. We have two sweet babies, two cats and a turtle. Ahh, life is complete! We have a computer shop, where we both work. Chris stays busy fixing things, building computers, and biking and shooting his bow when he gets the chance. Cara likes to goof around crafting and sewing after the kids go to bed.
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I was curious about the markings on the brick and could only find one other mention at: http://community-2.webtv.net/NOSTALGIAMERICA/OldIsGood/page4.html
Looks like a signature brick the company left to advertise their work. They must have done a good job because it lasted longer than the company! Several of our fireplace bricks have a brickmaker's name stamped on them too.
Thanks for the replies! It's kind of weird that the other fireplace doesn't have a signature brick in it. Or at least the bricklayers didn't turn the signature side out.
I found out that the entire name of the company is St. Louis Vitrified and Fire Brick Company from a really long website name. The book it was found in was "Report of the Test of Metals and Other Materials for Industrial Purposes" written in 1907. That's all I could find!
Fun too!!
Jessica, you rock!!!
How did you find that website? I spend probably at least an hour looking around for info like that.
-chris
You know, I don't even remember how I found it. Different combinations of the company name. I found it under the Google Book search. The link is long!!!
http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=k2okD_3CQCIC&dq=St.+Louis+Vitrified.+%26+Fire+Brick+Company&prev=http://books.google.com/books%3Flr%3D%26q%3DSt.%2BLouis%2BVitrified.%2B%2526%2BFire%2BBrick%2BCompany&lpg=PA286&pg=PA287
My family was digging up some bricks from a sidewalk to replace and saw the same bricks!!!!!! We have a over a hundred year old house in Minnesota. So we wanted to know how old these bricks were. If anybody knows anything about it please e-mail me!!!! at mookayla@hotmail.com
My great great grandfather, Frank C. Pauley, was president of St. Louis Vitrified and Fire Brick Co. from about 1910 until his retirement in 1925. That is all I know.
byron, the house was built in 1895.
-chris
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