Antique Red Clay PRAY Brick, Robert E. Pray and Co., Greenfield MA carved skull letter opener Hard to beat his original

Hard to beat his original hand-drawn (in colored pencil) cover

Can one ever have too many pretty boxes--handily storing odds and ends whole looking great doing it

which just adds to the ambiance

but have not found any citations of a Boxworks

I'd probably put it on the desk to use it as a paperweight

Antique Red Clay PRAY Brick, Robert E. Pray and Co., Greenfield MA carved skull letter opener Hard to beat his originalThis 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