Vintage Joseph Lamson Cemetary Ornate Stone Marker Banner Replica Massachusetts

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Vintage Joseph Lamson Cemetary Stone Marker Replica Massachusetts.
Measures 30” by 3” by 1 “
Very rare and unusual see last pic as it is an exact replica of that banner stone marker.
Very good shape a very tiny chip on back of piece.
Not sure what it is made out of plaster of Paris cement ?
Here is some more info on
Joseph Lamson, perhaps the greatest of Puritan engravers.
Joseph Lamson was born in 1658, in Ipswich, Massachusetts. He settled north of Boston and apprenticed with a stone carver. He probably began cutting his own stones in the 1680s and continued into the 1710s. Although he employed the same basic design and iconography as other carvers, Lamson charged his gravestones with unique intensity. Here is an early Lamson work, from 1691, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
This is a typical Lamson effort, with Puritan symbols and uncommon vitality. Cuts deeply and crowds the stone. The text is perfectly lettered. Twin banners flow from coiled ornaments at the stone’s shoulders. At top, the winged skull binds everything, like the keystone of an arch. He places the death’s head in a recessed space, with a curtain above and a platform of gravestone motifs below.
This was taken from the site where I found pic of the real engraved stone.
This is an estate find not sure of age of piece but from the yellowing of tape and typewriter paper it is for sure vintage.
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