File Carter MSS v.150 - Carter House: photograph, stamped brick

1 page and 1 photograph

Mr P. M. White, letter enclosing the photograph, February 1985.

Letter and photograph regarding a brick found at E. & W. Lake Ltd, Park Road, Newhall, near Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire. These premises were formerly the site of a brickworks owned by Lord Carnarvon, that produced the bricks which were shipped to Egypt for the construction of Carter's house "Castle Carter" (Castle Carter II) at Dra Abu el-Naga, Thebes.

• Photograph of a sample brick stamped "MADE AT BRETBY ENGLAND FOR HOWARD CARTER A.D. THEBES 1910".
• Photocopy of the letter from Mr P. M. White to the Keeper of the Egyptian Antiquities, British Museum, dated 16 February 1985.

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