It's certainly very similar in style and detail to Grassby's known Father Clyde on the nearby 30 Saint Vincent Place.

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I love this 1860s keystone head by Charles Grassby over the entrance to the former Junior Conservative Club on West George Street in Glasgow.

I can't find any record of what it represents, but the fish on his head and the anchor entwined in his beard suggest it could be Father Clyde, the mythological embodiment of the river on which Glasgow's fortune was built.

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Father Clyde on the Clydebank Building on Saint Vincent Place in Glasgow. I love the fish poking out of his beard, and the pair in his hair holding up a ring. These were details I only noticed when looking back at the photograph.

Such representations of the Clyde and other rivers seem to be relatively common on keystones of Glasgow buildings.

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