8+ TYPES OF MEMORIAL PLAQUES AND USES

We, humans, are mortal beings. Once our loved ones passé away, we strive to keep their memories intact in our mind and show our gratitude towards their deeds and recall the great moments we have spent with them. We have many ways to commemorate them, but memorial plaques are undoubtedly a unique way to express & pay our tributes.

Usage of Memorial Plaques:

• Memorial plaques used to mark an internment site, which is flush with the ground, which also terms as headstones because mostly it fixed on the head-side.
• Gravestones are large slabs of natural stones and covered the entire grave to preserve internment location of the deceased body in the grave. Gravestones like plaques have carving or engraving on the top surface containing quotes and info.
• Memorial plaques serve as keepsakes for the family, relatives, and fans of loved one to commemorate to gather.
• You can place memorial plaques in the memorial garden or similar places according to your traditions and practices and pay tributes there apart from the graveyard if it is at far distance like accidental death in another state/country.

Materials Used in Memorial Plaques: 

In the ancient era, mostly stones and woods were the choice of material to create memorial plaques. However, with the advent of technologies, today, we have a variety of synthetic materials to create superb memorial plaques with high quality and long-lasting materials. Let’s explore both categories of materials concerning products available at Olympia in Sydney, Australia.

Natural & Traditional Material

In the old days, stones and wooden material were handy to craft memorial plaques for the majority of people. Some elite people were enjoying metallic, and particularly precious metals were used for engraving their plaques like kings and top leader of the world. If we are going to list those traditional and natural material used in the creation of memorial plaques, the following are chief components.

Wood for Memorial Plaques:

Large Wooden Piano Finish Plaque, Acrylic Front

Natural Wooden Memorials:  Natural wood plaques always are looking beautiful and elegant. Being a green material. today it is the most preferred material, and Olympia offers large wooden plaques made from different kinds of wood and sealed with chemicals to save from weathering effects in outdoor applications. Customization is possible in shape, size, design, background and font colors & styles as well as embedding of pictures. You can fix the plaque on a headstone or use wooden sturdy tree stake.

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Best Ugliest Sports Trophies in 2019

Sports trophies are a matter of pride for the winners. They love to show trophies to their family, friends, and fans, even whoever visit their homes after the trophy ceremony. Everyone is on a concession that the trophy should look beautiful, attractive, shining, and carry the right message or represent the status of the winner and the sports itself.
Therefore, our attractions towards precious metals, stones, and discern art is natural. Same the way, we also expect an object on the trophy that represent the niche of sports anyway. Apart from the shining, we also opt decent shape and size.
However, in the trophy making industry, many weird or funny trophies are not an exception at all, but such trophies are consuming a lot in the corporate world where punishment trophies are common and effective at some extent.
It means I am not going to talk about funny trophies today, instead seriously ugly trophies which have ruined the day of many while receiving it. When at the end of much blood, sweat, and tears sports players receive the ugly creations in hands on the name of trophies, taking home becomes them crazy and fuzzy on expressions and emotions too!

No. 1 - French GP Trophy 

French GP Trophy in 2004 (Left) & 2018 (Right)

Sebastian Vettel recently has described F1 trophy as the most boring one in the world of sports. When the Ferrari driver has received it, he uttered the sentences with great dismay. A chimpanzee shaped figurine in three different color belts, which is lifting an auto wheel object depicting the celebration of race championship making trophy ugly in appearance as well as intimidating for the winners of such grand slam race competition. If you compare the trophy given in 2004 for the same championship, you will find acute degradation in the selection of trophy itself.

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