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Digging In The Dirt
How did I become the Tile Nut? It's simple, I began a little...  |
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All these tile molds were unearthed in my garden in 1992 after I moved into my new house | |
| Turns out the molds were from the Batchelder factory which closed in 1933 |
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Apparently someone in 1939 decided to build a garden wall from discarded tile molds and other tile factory rubble. |
| I have very few clues about how the molds got here. | ||
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They were certainly here before this pine tree was, obvioulsy! | |
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Some of the molds were right out in the open, masquerading as bricks | |
| Others were fully buried like this row of molds stacked as a garden wall. |
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before I dismantled it. | |
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here I am digging up the molds from the front yard
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<-----here sits the molds freshly unearthed
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I'm trying to press some tiles from the old molds--------->
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| Unearthing a Showroom sample | example of a mold discovery | Portrait of a mold |
| More on Batchelder | F.A.Q. on th e DIG | |