Collins Clayton and Co, Established 1801, Specialist Fine Shotblast Engravers
Description: Tomblets - memorials for the home, engraved with a photograph, immortalised in stone.
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Tomblet toom’let , n. a photograph immortalised in stone: a miniature memorial to a loved one: a personal heirloom: a polished black granite plaque, engraved with a photograph.
The first plaque was very personal and came after the death of a parent. After the cremation, the ashes were scattered in the memorial garden at the crematorium. Upon returning there, sometime later, others’ flowers were found in the same spot. Perfectly understandable and no reflection upon the crematorium. But what had been the last resting place of a dearly beloved was no longer personal. Something more permanent was needed.
As luck would have it, our family firm are specialist glass engravers - Collins Clayton and Co, first established in 1801. The technology used for fine glass engraving can be adapted to stone, so we engraved a photograph and a short inscription into a polished granite plaque to create a permanent, miniature memorial. In fact, two - one for the mother and one for her daughter.
Collins Clayton and Co, Established 1801, Specialist Fine Shotblast Engravers