Silent Witnesses of Eternity...
The olde downtown cemetary in Stratford, Connecticut..
Found this really nice winged skull design so finely engraved.. on an amazingly well cut and polished slab.
Hard to believe that this was created 285 years ago!
Here lyes Buried
ye Body of Capt
JEREMIAH JUDSON
Who Departed this Life
Febr 9th AD 1734 in
ye 63d Year of His Age.
Check out the detail on this enlargement below:
I thought that it looked awesome from this angle:
The letters almost glow orange with some kinda micro fauna in there:
A view of the back shows just how exacting the engraver’s efforts were to make this a perfect tombstone for the Ages.. def one of the finest in this graveyard!
