111 Agnes Street
This is a much better specimen than the one I documented in Adams Point.
Archive for the ‘ Undated marks’ Category
Uribe & Sons
19 February 2011J. A. Marshall
14 January 2011
1633 San Pablo Avenue
This mark is at the door of the cute little Haley Law Office building. It’s a much better example than the other one I found last July.
The Gray Bros. A.S.P. Co.
13 January 2011
1700 block San Pablo Avenue
This is the building that Piedmont Piano is in, but at the other end. Presumably the Gray Bros. were the overall contractor. “A.S.P.” stands for Artificial Stone Paving, a common name for concrete formulations in the late 1800s. The Schillinger Patent was the impetus for a major court case in 1894, Schillinger v. United States.
As of 1897 the Gray Brothers operated two San Francisco traprock quarries, at 26th Street and Douglass and at Green and Sansome.
Jacobs and Pattiani
9 November 2010
450 24th Street
Battered but handsome. I’m a sucker for the small caps in the word “and.” Hope I find more from this maker. See my profile here.
Duffin Concrete
8 November 2010
26th Street at Telegraph Avenue
I assume this is L. B. Duffin, whose other marks show no city.
C & D Paving & Const. Co.
7 November 2010
372 24th Street
F. H. Austin
6 November 2010
425 25th Street
This must be Fred H. Austin, whose elaborate escutcheons date from 1912-1913. Those marks show the address 2328 14th Avenue.
Oakland Underfoot 