The Stone Company

No idea who, what or why someone chiseled this text in an ordinary pavement tile and placed it beside the railroad track.

Guess it's an art form, but it intrigued me. Anyone got an idea?

UPDATE: SOLUTION TO THE MYSTERY mailed to me by Don Satijn / the Artist.

"The Stone Company" (TSC) is a company anex artwork of Don Satijn 1994.
TSC produced concrete L-elements that were the basis of a series of modular concrete images. TSC has a total of 10 "real" images produced from 18-52 L elements existed.
In addition to these "real" images, there were a large number of side products. The catalog of TSC which is also the manual was how the images to be stacked on 4 different ways. One of these versions was a hardcover catalog which an original xylography of the TSC was included and who was wrapped in a concrete box of 10 x 10 x 30 cm. the lid of the box was the size of a paving stone and was provided with the logo of TSC. This lid is what you found.
Cocky Hoek has once purchased version of the catalog and probably put the box in her garden. the cover has obviously chosen a life of its own and eventually arrived at the place where you have found him.

Here's a link to the actual original artwork.

Here's a rough google translation to the images.
THE STONE COMPANY (1994 - 2000) a visual project of Don Satin

"The Stone Company is a firm"
"The Stone Company is a work of art"

Both statements are true.

The Stone Company is a company with office, workshop and showroom. There is stationery, there are accounts, there are contracts. But the important thing is that The Stone Company provides products, handmade products. The total is the artwork: The Stone Company. The main product, which is supplied by The Stone Company is basically uniform, namely, a concrete L-shape with the dimensions 30 x 20 x 10 cm and a weight of about 10 kg. This form is called the L element. This L-element is bald or partly tiled delivered. Due to the differences in the tiles, the L-element variations occur in 262,144. For the tiling used The Stone Company only one kind of tile: the matt black unglazed Decize Tenor Ebene with the size 10x10 cm. The tiles are cast in the concrete so that the dimensions of the L-section element remain the same. Using these L-elements designs, manufactures and supplies The Stone Company images. The L-elements that are used for these images are tiled in such a way that the inner space of the image is accentuated. The Stone Company provides full besides these images also called "growth stock". A growth image is one in the making. It enables the purchaser to gradually save for a complete picture. Growth develops the image at each purchase of one or more L-elements up to the end of the pre-selected full picture.

In the catalog of The Stone Company in the chapter "Towards a complete picture" of the development phases of the growth picture described. These stages of the growth outlook are the stacks that The Stone Company prescribes at 1 t / m 17 L elements. Each of these stacks stands alone. That is to say that the growth of image elements are not BV5 can be transformed into the growth image of 6 L elements by simply element with an L-to explain. No, the growth outlook of 6 elements requires a total capital structure.
When U 18 L elements has "saved" you reach the first full frame: Composition 1. Should your ultimate desire is to have a larger full image begins next to composition 1 at a growth picture, until the number of L-elements has reached the full picture of your dreams.
In chapters Composition 1 t / m Composition 10 are 10 full images described. These images are composed of 18 to 43 L-elements. The clear construction drawings you will easily be able to build the images. When the composition is also listed what elements you need per floor. The elements are provided with a code, in which the number of tiles, the position of the tile and the method of molding to be read. To err is impossible.
The elements that The Stone Company supplies could create up to his own creations. In principle, The Stone Company was not opposed. There are rules, as explained in the delivery conditions. The main aesthetic criteria The Stone Company uses are: simplicity and accentuation of interior spaces. These criteria apply to the images of The Stone Company itself, and are therefore also possible for your own creations. We wish you much fun stacking.

Don Satijn
Art Director The Stone Company