In this exhibition we display 3 bricks and 2 tiles. Stamps, other marks or data concerning collecting of these buliding materials refer to the former owner or the brick manufacture where these were made.

We have two quater-sector formed bricks, which were used for building round pillars of veranda. The pillars of Borbély family's mansion house were built from these bricks in the middle of the eighteenth century in Tiszaderzs. That means these bricks are more than 250 years old.

We have another brick with a stamp in an oval form. This bricks was from Jászberény and it was used to built the town hall.

And there are two roof tiles from the famous manufacture of Zsombolya (now it is Jimbolia, in Romania). There are stamped insriptions on the surface of the tiles: "Ceramica Jimbolia, Marca 'LEU' Nr 245" and a lion is also stamped in it. That means these tiles were made after 1920. After the World War I Zsombolya was annexed to Romania and the former brick and tile factory "Bohn & Co" was renamed as "Ceramica Jimbolia" and the lion became the trade mark of this factory.

By Vadász István