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The 19th century saw almost all memorial permutations of the past come back with gusto. Wall monuments, crypts, headstones, table and slab stones and even replica Hog Backs were all common designs in Victorian Scotland. The introduction of the Cast-Iron Grave Marker would simply add yet another embellishment to an already decorative art form.
Iron grave markers and decorations were popular during the Victorian era in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, often being produced by specialist foundries or the local blacksmith. Cast iron headstones have lasted for generations while wrought ironwork often only survives in a rusted or eroded state.
Hew Donald Joseph Locke OBE RA (born 13 October 1959) is a British sculptor and contemporary visual artist based in Brixton, London. In 2000 he won a Paul Hamlyn Award [1] and the EASTinternational Award. [2] He grew up in Guyana, but lived most of his adult life in London. [3] In 2010 he was shortlisted for the Fourth plinth, Trafalgar Square ...
Von Schmidt and his crew built stone markers and installed cast iron markers about one mile apart on the length of the state's boundary. Not many of the markers had foundations, so fewer remain today. [4] A new survey in 1893 showed that the Von Schmidt line was 1,600 to 1,800 feet (490 to 550 m) west of the actual 120 degrees.
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The early twentieth century photographs also show the presence of other grave furniture in the cemetery including quite elaborate grave surrounds formed by "barley twist" pattern cast iron railings affixed to small stone corner posts and additional borders formed by white-painted bricks placed diagonally in the ground to give edging with a zig ...
A commemorative plaque, or simply plaque, or in other places referred to as a historical marker, historic marker, or historic plaque, is a plate of metal, ceramic, stone, wood, or other material, bearing text or an image in relief, or both, to commemorate one or more persons, an event, a former use of the place, or some other thing. Most such ...
Prominent New England grave carver active between 1748 and 1798 in Bolton, Connecticut, and Pompanoosuc, Vermont. Tombstone dated 1756 carved by Gershom Bartlett. Robert Beall (1836–1892) of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, sculptor of fonts, pulpits and reredoses. Also a monumental mason. Carlo Bergamini (1870–1934), Italian-New Zealander