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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Luzi Type's Messina luzi-type.ch/messina-sans #typography

Screenshot of type tester at https://luzi-type.ch/messina-sans

Messina Bold:

"Messina: If Arial had a soul."

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Dr. Robyn S. Lacy ⚰️ @graveyardarch.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Day 9: Lettering This ironstone gravestone from 1778 has stunningly detailed lettering! Garrison Graveyard, Annapolis Royal, NS. #31DaysofGraves

A section of an ironstone gravestone showing detailed text. The words visible are 'The' 'Mrs. Ma...' 'a joyfu...' 'Merits'

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Ian Ebbage @ianebbage.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The memorial to P.Caelius, a centurion in the XVIIIth Legion. His body is "missing" (ossa inferre licebit) because he was killed in an ambush in the Teutoburg Forest in Germany in AD9 in which up to 20,000 Romans were lost #31DaysofGraves Day 10 Missing (LVR LandesMuseum, Bonn)

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dr. élise madeleine @elisemadeleine.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Day 9 of #31daysofgraves: Lettering. Stonecutting brothers Samuel and Sylvanus Tingley invented some of the most intricate fonts in early 19th c Providence, RI. This rather plain-looking slate for Charles Haskell, a Black Revolutionary War veteran, takes on new dimensions when you get verrrry close.

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#31DaysofGraves Day 9: Lettering I've often seen a stonemason's name on a gravemarker. Not so often seen a note about the location of their business. "Henry Dunkley, Adjoining Cemy" - seen in Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, London

Closeup of the base of a gravemarker with lead letters saying "Henry Dunkley, Adjoining Cemy"

Photo of a full page ad for Henry Dunkley, Cemetery Mason & Sculptor.
Included as a foldout page in a 19th century guidebook describing Abney Park Cemetery and its residents.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#31DaysOfGraves Day 9: Lettering There is lots of lovely lettering on gravestones in Massachusetts, but when I think of lettering, I always think of Joseph Nash, a carver from the Connecticut River Valley. Nash did not carve conventional letterforms, but he never let that abbreviate his ambition.

dull sandstone gravestone covered with letters of inconsistent shape, height, and kerning, but LOTS of text.
Ens. Chileab Smith Dyed on March ye 7 1731 Age 96 year and Hannah his wife Dyed on August 31 1733 Aged 88 Years
It is worthy of Memoril Yt they lived in Marriage State 70 Years At lest

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Fiona Chartres @chartresfi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

When you start carving a headstone but have a serious attack of the curlicues.. Todays theme for #31DaysofGraves is Lettering and I'm sure there's a letter in there somewhere.

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Marisa Fez @marisafez.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#31DaysofGraves 9. Lettering 🔠 Talking Tombs (Paquito, 1906 & Agustina, 1910) Civil Cemetery, Bunyol, València 🇪🇸 Clay tombs bearing rhyming epitaphs, inscribed with a burin while the clay was still wet.

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Ragged Robin @carolineirwin3.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#31DaysOfGraves Day 9: Lettering Ornate lettering on a gravestone in the churchyard of St James, Sutton Cheney.

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Beatyblue @beatyblue27.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#31DaysOfGraves 2026 Day 9: Lettering/Schrift #parkfriedhofohlsdorf

Steinerne Gedenktafel mit roter chinesischer Schrift steht zwischen grünen Büschen und Bäumen in einem Park.

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Dr Anna Fairley Nielsson @annaandthedead.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#31DaysOfGraves Day 9 - Lettering: A very loopy style on the headstone commemorating Isobell Wobster, d.1752 at Brechin Cathedral. Wife of William Maule Gardiner at the Castle of Brechin and mother of 12 children! Described as having "unshaken patience".

A headstone commemorating Isobell Gardiner. The stone features a lot of text, all in an elaborate font.

The New Jewish Cemetery in Kraków overlaid with the text:
#31 Days of Graves
Day 1: Flower
Day 2: Urn
Day 3: Glass
Day 4: Entrance
Day 5: Vehicle
Day 6: Weather
Day 7: Home
Day 8: Animal
Day 9: Lettering
Day 10: Missing
Day 11: Humorous
Day 12: Ordinary
Day 13: Unusual
Day 14: Brick
Day 15: Language
Day 16: Faith
Day 17: Music
Day 18: Earth
Day 19: Water
Day 20: Fire
Day 21: Air
Day 22: Mourning
Day 23: Wings
Day 24: Contrast
Day 25: Tree
Day 26: Accident
Day 27: Portrait
Day 28: Landscape
Day 29: Fruits/Vegetables
Day 30: Colour
Day 31: Memento Mori

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Jan @janbarrrker.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#31DaysOfGraves Day 9: Lettering Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh

IN LOVING MEMORY OF THOMAS SAMUEL THOMSON WHO DIED AT BARBADOS 24 FEBRUARY 1934 IN HIS 76 YEAR
A MAN GREATLY BELOVED
ALSO OF HIS WIFE JOHANNA JESSIE DALE DIED 22 AUGUST 1949

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orsa-marga.bsky.social @orsa-marga.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#31DaysOfGraves 2026 Day 9: Lettering Sütterlin script handwritten German 1917. Translation in Alt-Text. Berlin Grunewald 20 year old Herrmann died in WWI in West-Flandern.

Schwarze Grabtafel an einer hellen Wand. Bild einer Möwe. Text in alter deutscher Schreibschrift:
Ich bin die Möwe. Zur Heimat auf Flügeln unverletzt schwing ich mich weiter.
Zur Ehre Herrmann Moebius Fahnenjunker - Gefreiter. 1. Marine Infanterie Regiment
Geboren 22. Dezember 1897 zu Grunewald Gefallen 20. Oktober 1917 vor Poelkapelle
"rein und reif" gab er sein junges Leben dem Vaterlande
English: I am the seagull. Unharmed, I soar onward on wings toward home.
In honor of Herrmann Moebius, Officer Cadet – Lance Corporal, 1st Marine Infantry Regiment.
Born December 22, 1897, in Grunewald; fell October 20, 1917, near Poelkapelle.
"Pure and mature," he gave his young life for the Fatherland.

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Mixed Messages @signsthereading.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

#31DaysOfGraves — Day 9 - Lettering The first photographs this 31 days not taken in last year - Nov 2016 I could have spent a lot longer watching and appreciating the craft Cimetière de Montmartre, #Paris

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Filocalus Letters @filocalus.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Yes! Subirachs was a very good Catalonian sculptor. This pieces are almost made of letters. So beautiful in situ.

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Filocalus Letters @filocalus.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

58_ Cementeri de Montjuïc (Barcelona – Spain) #31DaysofGraves Day 9: Lettering Francesc Cambó i Batllé tomb, sculpture work by Josep María Subirachs (1977). (Today is MY day! 🔠☺️) #tombtober #typelovers #seriftype #typography #lettercutters #bronzesculpture #cemetery #grave #memorial #epitaph

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Keeper of the Really Smart Words @bookishnea.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#31daysofgraves Day 8: Animal. The horns, the Latin classification, and the initials say the deceased was a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. The doglike snout and the disconcertingly human eyes say the carver had never seen an elk.

Closeup of a stone marked Hauer. Inside a circular recess, a bas relief of an elk head, its antlers curving around the circle. Above the head, the initials B. P. O. E. Below it, the caption Cervus Alces. But it has the wrong snout, and very wrong eyes: small, lidded, and forward facing like a human, not large and on the side of its head like a deer.

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Biene @sabinedhh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#31DaysOfGraves Day 8: Animal/Tier 📍 Hamburg Ohlsdorf

Älterer, heller, hoher Grabstein mit einer erhaben eingearbeitet Eule im oberen Bereich.

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Ian Ebbage @ianebbage.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Marked with a bust of his dog ("Rab and his friends"), the grave of the "Howgate Carrier", John Jackson, who died in 1831, and his wife Margaret Todd #31DaysofGraves Day 8 Animal in Penicuik Kirkyard

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Flâneuse | mallow era @wertvollel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

#31DaysOfGraves Day 8: Animal/Tier 📍Nienstedten Cemetery in Hamburg THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD/ DER HERR IST MEIN HIRTE. Artwork: Maren Lipp (1926 - 2015)

Auf dem Foto ist eine steinerne Skulptur eines Hirten mit einem Schaf zu sehen. Die Figur sitzt bzw. kniet vor einer sorgfältig geschnittenen Hecke und trägt einen Umhang sowie eine Kopfbedeckung. Mit dem linken Arm hält sie ein Schaf eng an sich.

Auf dem Sockel steht in großen Buchstaben:

„DER HERR IST MEIN HIRTE“
Die Inschrift ist eine Anspielung auf Psalm 23 („Der Herr ist mein Hirte“). Im Hintergrund sind Grabsteine zu erkennen. Die Namen und Daten auf den Grabplatten sind teilweise sichtbar, aber vom Bildausschnitt abgeschnitten.
The photo shows a stone sculpture of a shepherd with a sheep. The figure is seated or kneeling in front of a neatly trimmed hedge and wears a cloak and head covering. With his left arm, he holds a sheep close.

The inscription on the base reads in large letters:

"THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD"

The inscription is an allusion to Psalm 23 ("The Lord is my shepherd"). Gravestones are visible in the background. The names and dates on the gravestones are partially visible, but are cropped out of the frame.

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Katie Crane @ohfolkthat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Day 7: Home This is one of my favourites, by an amazing local carver. Love the details of the hand especially. In Greenspond, Newfoundland and Labrador. #31DaysOfGraves

The gravestone of Stuart G Bragg who accidentally drowned in 1931. The top of the gravestone has an open book with the word home written on the left page and a hand with a quill. Underneath it is:

In loving memory
Of
Stuart G. Bragg
Accidentally drowned
May 30th. 1931
Aged 25 years.
Erected by his wife Minnie.

Lo where this silent marble weeps
Husband, son, and brother sleeps
A heart within whose sacred cell
The peaceful virtues loved to dwell

Just apart where no shadows fall
In perfect peace awaiting all,
Safe in the land that knows not pain
He is longing to meet us all again.

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#31DaysofGraves Day 7: Home "Mr. and Mrs. Flagg were one of the first four families in Will County and always lived in a log cabin of this style; and that is why this monument was especially designed for them.” Plainfield, Illinois, Twp Cemetery Details at link gravelyspeaking.com/2023/08/09/a...

A brownish stone tombstone carved to look like a rustic log cabin. The door shows the latchstring out and there is a single window and a chimney. The name "FLAGG" is carved on a stone board above the door.

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Welwyn Archaeological Society @welwynarchsoc.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Today's #31daysofgraves theme is "home". This was a really hard one and the best I could do was this monument in #Hampstead cemetery, #London. The top plaque says that Walter Arthur Rider was "suddenly called home". He was only 19 when he died. The three metal plaques date between 1901 and 1925. 1/2

A tall memorial which although flat is built to look like the facade of a classical temple with two columns either side and a pediment. The central panel has three bronze plaques with inscriptions and one carved directly into the stone. Along the bottom on the stone in relief is the inscription "The family grave of Mr. & Mrs. W.R.Rider, of Hampstead".

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Nettle @nettleverity.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#31DaysofGraves Day 7: Home Little Trethewey Methodist Chapel, St Levan, Cornwall, UK For Annie Williams, 25 and her son George, 10 weeks, 1882 'Beyond the bright and pearly gates, where Jesus, loving saviour, waits, where all is peaceful, bright, and fair, my home is there'

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orsa-marga.bsky.social @orsa-marga.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#31DaysOfGraves 2026 Day 7: Home Gravestone like an advertising pillar with family names and dates back more than 100 years. Last burial 2006. Blaubeuren Germany

Das Bild zeigt einen zylindrischen, steinernen Grabstein in Säulenform auf einem Friedhof, der mit den Namen und Lebensdaten von Mitgliedern der Familien Klaiber und Dieterich beschriftet ist. Zu den namentlich erwähnten Personen gehören unter anderem Berta Klaiber, geb. Dieterich (1886–1910), Marie Stengelin, geb. Scheiffele (1851–1921), Nina Dieterich, geb. Stengelin (1860–1933) sowie Georg Dieterich (1855–1938

...into victory... be faithful... Death has united three siblings in war; in silence, O friend, remember the Eternal Most High! Ancestor, foremother, mother, and child are united at this spot!

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a3minutewonder.bsky.social @a3minutewonder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#31daysofgraves Day 6 Weather Clouds and rain or thunder and lightning.

Died almost exactly 1 year apart but then noticed the 61 year age difference ?

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Dr Anna Fairley Nielsson @annaandthedead.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#31DaysOfGraves Day 6 - Weather: The rain and wind have weathered this stone so much there's now a hole all the way through. It must be poorer quality sandstone as the similar stones around it aren't in as bad condition. Anfield Cemetery, Liverpool. Pigeon for scale.

A round topped sandstone headstone that's extremely weathered to the extent there is a hole through the top left side. A pigeon sits on top.

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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

#31DaysofGraves Day 3: Glass Two beautiful examples of memorial wreaths made from dried flowers & leaves behind glass. Seen last week in the spectacular Certosa di Bologna

An oval wreath made of dried pansies, lily of the valley & leaves on a black background. Topped with 2 artificial white birds

A circular wreath made of dried chrysanthemums, roses & other flowers, packed closely together

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Nordlicht @physiognom.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

#31DaysOfGraves Day 6: Weather / Wetter 📍 Ohlsdorfer Friedhof Denkmal für die Flutopfer von 1962

Eine steinere Gedenktafel im Boden, die in Kopfsteinpflaster eingefasst ist. Auf dem grauen Stein ist in großen Großbuchstaben die Aufschrift „FLUT 1962“ eingemeißelt. Auf den feuchten Pflastersteinen und der Tafel liegen wenige braune Eichenblätter.

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Beatyblue @beatyblue27.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#31DaysOfGraves 2026 Day 5: Vehicle/Fahrzeug #parkfriedhofohlsdorf #hamburg

Steinerne Skulptur eines Mannes mit nacktem Oberkörper neben einem Schiff mit Flagge in einem Park.

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Ian Ebbage @ianebbage.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The funerary stele of Gaius Iulius Crescens who was a carrier (AD 160, Thessaloniki Archaeological Museum) #memorialmonday #31DaysofGraves Day 5 vehicle

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Filocalus Letters @filocalus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

56_ Cementeri de Montjuïc (Barcelona – Spain) #31DaysofGraves Day 4: Entrance Batlló i Batlló hypogeum (1899) by Vilaseca, Fuxà & Clarasó, among others. (Again, sorry for the delay!) #typelovers #egyptiantype #modernismtype #displayfont #typography #lettercutters #stoneengraving #stonecarving

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Filocalus Letters @filocalus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Absolutely! I have to take better pictures of this tomb because is so suprinsing.

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SBlandfo @sblandfo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#31DaysOfGraves Day 2: Urn. Double memorial at Corby Glen, #Grantham, with an elegant classical urn carved above the inscriptions.

Dark grey gravestone with crisp cursive inscriptions to Thomas Brewster and his wife Mary who died within a few months of each other in 1846. The memorial stands in a grassy sunlit churchyard.

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orsa-marga.bsky.social @orsa-marga.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

'Zahlen: Zwei' #FotoVorschlag #31DaysOfGraves Day 2 Urn Parkfriedhof Berlin Lichterfelde

A black and white photograph shows two identical stone urns sitting side by side inside a semi-circular stone niche. The niche is carved into a larger, weathered stone structure, possibly a monument or a grave marker. Behind the urns, the back of the alcove is decorated with an intricate relief carving of flowers and vines. Each urn has a rounded body, a defined neck, and a matching stone lid. There is faint, weathered text inscribed across the front surface of both urns

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Andrea♻️ @riesenschritte.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#31DaysOfGraves 2026 Day 2: Urn Columbarium Wilmersdorf, Berlin

Der Blick in einen langen Gang mit Räumen, in denen Urnen in Regalen stehen.

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AnwohnerIniSchanze @schanzenini.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#31DaysOfGraves das Grab von Schwester Bertha Keyser

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Beatyblue @beatyblue27.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#31DaysOfGraves Day 1 Flower Lilien/Lillies

Grabstein mit der Inschrift 'Familie Willh. Bange' und den Namen Willh. Bange und Sophie Bange sowie ein weiterer Grabstein mit dem Namen Anna Kattendiek, in der Mitte befindet sich ein eingearmtes Blumenrelief (Lilien)

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Biene @sabinedhh.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#31DaysOfGraves Day 1: Flower/Blume 📍Friedhof Ohlsdorf

Etwas höherer alter, heller Grabstein, der im oberen Bereich das Relief des Schlafmohns in seinen verschiedenen Blütephasen zeigt. Links eine Knospe. Mitte eine blühende Mohnblüte. Rechts eine geschlossenen Kapsel. Der untere Bereich trägt die Namen und Daten der Verstorbenen.

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Ralph @ralphpfannkuche.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#31DaysOfGraves Day 1: Flower / Blume Cemetry Dresden, Germany

Rosen und Sonnenblumen als Bildhauerei auf einem Grabmal

Roses and Sunflowers as Sculptures on a Tombstone

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Scotland's Churches Trust @scotchurchestrust.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Day 1 of #31DaysOfGraves - Flower This fine pair of daisies, a symbol of innocence, purity, and gentleness, can be seen in Currie Kirk in Edinburgh. Thank you @annaandthedead.bsky.social for pulling together a series of daily prompts, we will be sharing more from Scotland in the coming days! 🪦

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