Oakland Underfoot

1631 Spruce Street, Berkeley

Oakland has a single example of Reed’s mark, barely over the Berkeley line.

1211 Curtis Street, Berkeley

This whole block is full of 1922 stamps and this one exception.

1337 Santa Fe Avenue, Berkeley

A dated example of Jesse Green‘s stamp.

2915 Acton Street, Berkeley

This stamp, yet another example of Mero’s marks that year, is a nice pulled-together piece that gives his city as Richmond. Not many Richmond masons practiced this far south.

1257 65th Street

Whereas my other example of F. A. Mero’s mark is straight text, this pair, in the same neighborhood, displays two different versions of arched text. I’m guessing that Mero struck one character at a time.

18 Mesa Avenue, Piedmont

This version of Riechel & Bredhoff’s stamp has the date on the right rather than in the center.

9000 block Plymouth Street

There’s a chance that this is 1926, like previous examples I’ve found.