Mysterious brick

[mojjax]

7 1/2 inches long - 3 inches wide - 1 1/2 inches thick . It's not made out of clay ,rock . or pottery , something lighter . It has the letters ' KAAS' on the top . It almost looks like a chunk of 'Hash' at least it has the same color . It weighs almost 2 pounds . Found it in the barn . Any ideas ?

mojjax

 

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[mojjax]

Since the brick has been in the house .... it has formed a large crack - drying out from woodstove / furnace heat . I also noticed that the bottom has the word ' KAAS' spelled backwards - as if they were stacked , and it made an impression . My grrlfriend thinks it's cheese . I'm still not sure . Thanks History.H for the new info , and of course PBK and everyone else !!

 

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[Michelle]

That Cheese should win a spot in the guiness world records book.......

 

[treasurekidd]

I googled KAAS brick, and ended up this site for Widmers cheese. They still use bricks to press the cheese today:

http://www.widmerscheese.com/tour.cfm

 

[Michelle]

good work.....

 

[Monty]

When that thing pops open no telling what's gonna' come out of there. I'd keep it in a cage to be safe. Didn't you see the movie "The Alien"? Monty

 

[Michelle]

When that thing pops open no telling what's gonna' come out of there. I'd keep it in a cage to be safe. Didn't you see the movie "The Alien"? Monty

HAHAHA...Surface too....

 

[1liquigirl]

A weight was exactly what I was thinking when I first looked at it. I'm sure you all have guessed it. But when I saw the black looking markings on it and the lines going across it, I thought of something else. The bows used to play orchestral instruments were rubbed with resin. Is the object light?

 

[mojjax]

A weight was exactly what I was thinking when I first looked at it. I'm sure you all have guessed it. But when I saw the black looking markings on it and the lines going across it, I thought of something else. The bows used to play orchestral instruments were rubbed with resin. Is the object light?

It is fairly light - about half the weight of a clay brick of the same size .

 

[luckyspade]

Looks like it could be a old fire brick from a coal or wood stove. Some were made of asbestos and were very light so be careful.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Block of sulphur? They used to purify wood barrels for food storage (and beer fermenting) by burning sulphur in them. It looks like something that was cast in a rough cut form (hence the striations on the side and the backwards "KAAS"). Try burning a little chip and see if it smells like rotten eggs and smokes yellow.

 

[spartan69cs]

Maybe it's natural.