Personalised picture coffins
Printed on FSC certified paper.
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New Floral Tributes
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That Somewhere Special
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Sporting Life p.12
We Are Passionate People
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Words to Remember
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Your coffin
and the
environment
Our classic style, picture coffins
The imagery is printed using
are individually crafted in our
water based inks on FSC certified
award winning factory, using
paper, laminated onto the coffin
FSC certified Ecologique board
using a water-based glue.
with no added formaldehyde.
The coffins come with a natural
Our manufacturing techniques
biodegradable cotton lining
ensure that our coffins are truly
and are supplied with either
eco friendly and are suitable for
a traditional nameplate, or
Cremation and Burial (including
the details of the deceased
woodland burial).
incorporated into the final design.
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A picture
tells a thousand
words
Every image tells a story, so
it is not surprising that more
and more people are opting for
a picture coffin when making
funeral arrangements. Whether
you choose a sporting theme, a
landscape or something more
abstract, our Reflections®® design
service will guarantee a picture
Personalised
Design Service
Everyone in life is unique, and we believe that a picture
coffin should reflect the individual qualities of the departed.
We offer a fully personalised service that lets you create a
one off piece of art that celebrates the life of your loved one.
coffin that is truly personal.
Whether you have specific
Every one of our picture coffins
images or have seen something
is FSC certified and completely
you would like to incorporate,
bio degradable. We do not use
our dedicated design team are
any vinyl or ‘wrap’ in creating
on hand to assist you in creating
the image, so you can be rest
a design that is truly personal.
assured that your choice of
coffin will not have any negative
Throughout this brochure you
impact on the environment.
will find themed examples that
you can choose, personalise or
just use for inspiration. There is
You can find more information
nothing to limit you other than
and creative ideas online at...
your own imagination.
www.reflectionscoffins.co.uk
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New
Floral
Tributes
Floral tributes have a long
can hold special significance.
association with funeral
Poppies are well known for
arrangements and as such it
their link to remembrance,
is not surprising that picture
while daffodils can signify
coffins that utilise flowers in
re-birth and renewal. The
their design have become a
following pages offer some
popular choice. These floral
examples of popular floral
designs offer a softer, more
coffins, but we can create
colourful alternative to a
any design based around the
traditional wood coffin and
flower of your choosing.
Bluebells
Product Code RF-B02
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Spring Blossom
Product Code RF-SB01
Poppies
Pollination
Daffodils
Thistle
Product Code RF-PP04
Product Code RF-P05
Product Code RF-D03
Product Code RF-T06
Additional
ways to
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The example above incorporates
Floral designs also make a great
a tartan draped over the coffin
backdrop for poetry and prose,
which alludes to a specific clan.
and can be a good starting point
This can be substituted for any
for a more abstract or geometric
other family tartan or fabric that
pattern. For more examples visit
you provide.
www.reflectionscoffins.co.uk
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That
Somewhere
Special
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Landscape views and vistas
special meaning for them, or
often conjure up very emotive
a location where they enjoyed
feelings, which resonate with
spending time. Our team can
certain periods in each of our
recreate panoramas that wrap
personal history. For this reason
around the sides of the coffin
a landscape inspired picture
from photographs you supply;
coffin can conjure up memories
or if it is a well known location,
of a loved one’s past, perhaps
we can source the images on
displaying a place that held
your behalf.
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Highlands
Seafront
Product Code RL-H07
Product Code RL-S06
Break Of Day
Folly At Sunset
Product Code RL-BD03
Product Code RL-FS01
London By Night
Lake District
Product Code RL-LN04
Product Code RL-LD02
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Sporting
Life
For many of us, sport
and team coffins remain
can become a passionate
some of our most popular
cornerstone of our lives,
designs. Whether the
manifesting itself in a
imagery draws on a general
life long dedication to a
love of a certain game, or a
particular team. Many of
specific team, our designers
the requests that utilise our
can liaise to secure you
personalised service reflect
the design that offers an
this passion, and sporting
extremely personal touch.
Back Of The Net
Product Code RS-BN07
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The 18th Hole
Steeplechase
Product Code RS-H05
Product Code RS-SC10
Crack Of Willow
Sport Nation
Product Code RS-CW03
Product Code RS-SN01
Round Three
Product Code RS-RT08
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ways to
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The examples illustrated here
and in the event of wanting to
only represent a small handful
include a specific club, we can,
of sports. Our staff are happy to
wherever possible, help secure
create a design that draws upon
the permission to do so.
any sporting activity you desire.
Through flags and motifs we
For more examples visit...
can reference national teams,
www.reflectionscoffins.co.uk
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We Are
Passionate
People
As with sports, pastimes
supply. If your loved one
and leisure activities can
rode a particular motorbike,
become a defining aspect of
or sailed a particular vessel,
peoples lives. Be it painting,
we are happy to create a
fishing or gardening, we can
design that incorporates the
create a picture coffin that
right imagery for a truly
utilises photographs that you
personalised picture coffin.
In the Garden
Product Code RP-TG02
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Fishing Tackle
Sailing
Product Code RP-FT01
Product Code RP-S03
Battle of Britain
Product Code RS-BB04
Locomotion
Product Code RP-LM09
Speedway
Product Code RP-SW10
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Words
to
Remember
Many of our customers like
The text can be laid over or
to include poetry, readings,
combined into any design
song lyrics or their own
and can give an additional
writing on the coffin design,
level of meaning to your
for a more sentimental and
personalised picture coffin.
personal touch. They may
We have illustrated a few
represent a favourite piece
popular choices on the
of prose, express an emotion
following pages, but you
or sentiment that celebrates
can add anything you like to
the life of your loved one.
almost any image.
“There are stars who’s light
only reaches the earth long
after they have fallen apart.
There are people who’s
remembrance gives light in
this world, long after they
Cosmos
have passed away. This light
shines in our darkest nights
on the road we must follow.”
Product Code RQ-C04
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- The Talmud
The Caterpillar
Candle On Water
Flowers On Marble
No Man Is An Island
Devotions upon Emergent
Occasions - John Donne
Product Code RQ-C06
Product Code RQ-CW03
Product Code RQ-FM07
Product Code RQ-NM08
“What the caterpillar calls the
“For death is no more than a
“We cannot banish dangers, but
“No man is an island, entire of
manor of thy friend’s or of thine
end of the world, the master
turning of us over from time to
we can banish fears. We must
itself; every man is a piece of the
own were. Any man’s death
calls a butterfly.”
eternity.”
not demean life by standing in
continent, a part of the main. If a
diminishes me, because I am
- Richard Bach
- William Penn
awe of death.”
clod be washed away by the sea,
involved in mankind; and therefore
- David Sarnoff
Europe is the less, as well as if a
never send to know for whom the
promontory were, as well as if a
bell tolls; it tolls for thee...”
Allegro
Music, when soft voices die
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Product Code RQ-A01
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Music, when soft voices die,
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Vibrates in the memory,
Are heaped for the beloved’s bed;
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Love itself shall slumber on.
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Picture
Trestles
To enhance the effect of the
Reflections® Coffin we can now
repeat your chosen design from
Ash Caskets
the coffin on a pair of Picture
As part of our service, we are happy to translate any Reflections®
Trestles. The design is printed
design to fit a standard size ash casket. This can be to accompany to
on to a sheet of paper which
your Reflections® coffin or crib, or a stand alone order.
wraps around the tube-shaped
Trestle to give an attractive and
Please ask your Funeral Director for more details.
professional appearance.
Pollination
Last Supper
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