In Suzhou last week I came across a man selling marble hand-carved stamps. They were essentially polished marble about the size of a medicine bottle and he used a sharp point to etch out on the bottom. I got him to carve a pair for Max and Zara - it has their names in English as well as Chinese characters. Watching him work - digging out the marble bit by bit - was amazing. I should post a photo of the finished product. More amazing was that it was all done for about $8 a stamp.
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