What Else Do You Collect?

My personal favorite (30 years ago, no photo) was a simple tombstone in Virginia City, Nevada that read

Poorly Lived
Poorly Died
Poorly Buried
No One Cried

With the current rules of modern cemetaries soon the epitaph will be gone the way of the dodo. Due to lawn maintenance many cemetaries do not allow above ground monuments and headstones and footstones are quite limited for personal bio or thoughts.

Epitaphs I have found I believe are how people will be remembered. My most remembered ones are either witty or clever.

I,E. "I'd rather be in Philadelphia" or "Here lies Les Moore shot by a 44. No Les No More." "I you can read this you're standing on my head."

There are a lot variations out there but the underlaying fact still rings true. Some of the monuments in older cemetaries are really quite interesting. Chicago's Calvary cemetary come to mind. The older one in France and Italy are almost art parks. Something to see.

Cool! If you get a chance to share a photo, that would be great.

I have a few cousins who are doing the MLB ballpark thing (trying to see a game in each baseball park).
They moved up their schedule a bit this year to see a game at the Oakland Coliseum before the A's left.

Very nice!

the term 'porcelain' can indeed be confusing.
with license plates and antique signage (another very popular area of collecting), the correct technical term is 'porcelain enamel'. this is made using powdered, colored glass 'frit' fused to a metal base at high temp in a kiln.
high quality porcelain dinnerware plates are made from a very pure and fine grained type of clay. no metal is involved.

@daltonista That is certainly a fine collection.

An excellent collection, daltonista.