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Figure 128
Bricklayer's Scotch
resting against a cutting
block.
called a 'Thrift' with inter-changeable mill-bills and picks. This implement was
very similar to your [Gerard Lynch] Victorian 'scotch' and may well be the miss-
ing link from old stone working traditions from the earlier brick axe.
The influence from stonemasonry once again appears, albeit in an obscure
manner, in the bricklayer's cutting-shed. Study of the type of cutting tool
being used by the cutter in the Waudby plates is almost certainly a later style
of scotch hammer, with a fixed double-edge blade fixed to an ash handle, and
more commonly termed a 'Scutch'. This style was still to be seen in the
d
.1938
Marples catalogue, displayed under the 'Shamrock Brand' of 'Mason's Tools'
as a 'Double-Edge Scutch Hammer, 14 inch [355mm] Head'. It is shown
alongside the traditional scotch, though by then even this tool was also being
termed a scutch too.
The changes that were taking place in the cutting-shed of the second half of
the nineteenth century reflected standards being set for brick enrichments by
