They are also used for memorial gardens and donor recognition as well as pet markers. Occasionally we will send our mobile engraving and lettering team to homes and residential communities to perform on-site engraving for house numbers, addresses and signs that need to be engraved in stone. Comelis de Bruin, Reisen over Moskovie, door Persie en Indïe, Amsterdam, 1714 French translation: Voyages de Corneille le Brun, par la Moscovie, en Perse et aux Indes Orientales, Amsterdam, 1718, II, pp. Engraving stone and rock is a unique and personalized way to create commercial signs and neighborhood signs.
de J., Voyage de Siam des Pères Jésuites, envoyés par le Roy, aux Indes à la Chine avec leurs observations, Amsterdam, 1688, opposite p. 119: "I remember there to have seen a Grave made for one of the Richer sort of 'em, that amounted to three or 4000 Gilders, neither are they raised high, or costly in the Ornaments they bestow on 'em, but only they dig them of such a vast depth, and line the Grave from the very Bottom with fine square Stone cut for the purpose, and so strong is the Work, as well as neat, that it is as if they did design never to move from thence." See also the description of Chinese graves in Kupang by Jacques Arago, and the drawings by Ch.
Christopher Fryke", in Christopher Fryke & Christopher Schweitzer, Voyages to the East Indies, 1680 to 1686 / 1676 to 1683, New Delhi & Madras, Asian Educational Services, 1997, p. * The authors express their thanks to Mary Somers Heidhues and Michèle Pirazzoli- t'Serstevens who re-read this article.ġ.