I know we all bring home other random things besides bottles while out digging and finding… I like horse shoes for some reason… this one is my favorite
Jim... I too, spent many a year getting hit in the head with bricks… so, sure… why not… I will count you in my book []
Thanks, Rick... I plan to track them down like the bottles... who, what, when, where, why and how type stuff... maybe this winter when I am up to my eye balls in snow...
I have seen some nice brick displays at a few bottle shows. JoeTheCrow and I dug a neat one last weekend, not sure if he posted it or not. Joe has an awesome hearth around his wood stove with various embossed bricks that inspired me. When building a hearth for my brother in our family homestead years ago, I was just getting started in bottle digging. I remember lugging backpacks filled with many more bricks than bottles out of rural, forested ancient lumber camps after dark with no light. Is there an antique-brick website?
Hey Ben, Down South we call those "talking bricks" and we meet some serious collectors too. I have dug some of the CB Co bricks in Pensacola but most are local.
Couldn't tell you how many horse shoes and jackass shoes I have dug over the years.
I have bricks from mostly abandoned places that were around for years and then just shut down and fell apart. Psych hospitals, camps, airplane factories, etc.
Heck, last night I saw a really encrusted horseshoe at the end of a farm row....probably buried for decades until recently.