Back in 1879, while your great-great-grandparents were building houses with honest-to-goodness clay bricks, a smooth-talking hustler named Reed C. Waddell was perfecting the art of selling fake gold bricks to gullible marks. The scam was beautifully simple: coat a lead brick with gold, let the sucker test the corners (which were actually gold), then skip […] The post Antique Bricks More Valuable than Gold Bricks? appeared first on The Craftsman Blog.
