About this objectBricklayers hammers.
Wooden handle, damaged.
Wooden wedge in place.
Scrutch in place.
This Bricklayer's Scrutch Hammer was given to me by retired Bricklayer and Plasterer Wilfred "Cobber" Brown of Orange. This man, a great citizen and as tough as the old hammer. Dropped into the New Guinea jungles to fight for his country, his health has not been the best. We are praying at this time that treatment recently at Concord will help him.
The hammer was made for the shaping of bricks as the layer required. The bricks were in the early days, not as hard as they are now and the professional "Bricky" roughened and cut the brick to shape and sometimes used to tool the clean the bricks if necessary. With the rough end of the hammer, he too was able to roughen areas to make the plaster adhere tightly.
From the original Viv Kable catalogue exhibit register.
