IMPORTED BRICKS
Brand name: MEXKO
Company: A. P. Green Fire Brick Co.
Location: Mexico, Missouri.
Years: 1929-1942
Type: Fire brick
Description: Brand name impressed into the face.
Deposits: Lammers Pit in Cheltenham formation clay, S. of Fulton, Callaway County,
Missouri; Pit No. 4 in Cheltenham formation clay, Audrain County, Missouri.
Comments: Probably imported to California from Missouri by the A. P. Green
Fire Brick Company, which had a distribution office in San Francisco.
Source: Gurcke, Karl, 1987, Bricks and Brickmaking, p. 264; McQueen, H.S., 1943, Geology of the fire clay districts of East Central Missouri:
Missouri Geological Survey, v. 28, 2nd series, p. 102 an 106.
Comments or questions are welcomed.
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