Peace Urns

For many families, choosing a design is a way to make a clear statement about a life spent in pursuit of a specific cause. There are those whose entire worldview was forged in the 1960s, people who marched for what they believed in and perhaps even faced arrest to protect those beliefs.

You might remember them as the person who never went back on what they decided in their youth. Their commitment was not a passing phase, but a lifelong posture that shaped how they lived and how they stood their ground when it mattered most.

There is also a profound strength in those who choose to meet anger with stillness. To refuse to meet hostility with more hostility takes a significant amount of energy, a quiet resolve that allows them to act as a bridge between people who might otherwise never find common ground.

You may find yourself missing the person who could diffuse a heated argument just by walking into the room. Their ability to bring people together, even when they could not agree, was a testament to a nature that prioritized peace above all else.

The artwork in this collection is engraved directly into the cast aluminum, featuring either a peace symbol or a dove. Each piece is available in various painted colors or in a hand-applied enamel finish with hand-detailed silver bands. Every urn is designed with a threaded screw-top lid and a felt base for stability.

Because families often have different needs when it comes to keeping a loved one close, we offer these designs in full-size, sharing, and keepsake sizes. We can also engrave a two-tone name and date into the surface, making their name and their time on this earth an integral part of the piece.

The symbol was designed by Gerald Holtom in 1958 and presented on February 21 of that year for the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Created for one specific march, the lines are the flag semaphore for N and D, for nuclear disarmament, laid over one another.

Holtom never copyrighted or trademarked it. When two American companies tried to register it in 1970, the Commissioner of Patents ruled it could not function as a trade mark, so it has belonged to everybody ever since.

For a family, the design on the urn is what the person held to, and how the room felt when they were in it.

Source: Wikipedia, Peace symbol

If the person you are remembering was defined by a lifelong commitment to their convictions and a quiet resolve that could settle a room, then these designs will read as a true reflection of who they were. For those who knew them, these pieces offer a way to acknowledge a life spent standing for something or simply bringing a sense of ease to those around them.

The choice belongs to your own memory of their character. You might picture them sitting quietly at the head of the table, making the whole house feel calm and settled.

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