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The casket chosen for the late President Kennedy was not the Elgin bronze casket in which he was taken from Dallas to the capital because that casket had been damage by the Secret Service people during the loading / unloading process. Therefore, the damaged bronze casket was replaced by a mahogany casket provided by the prestigious Joseph Gawler's Sons funeral home of Washington, DC. The design chosen was a "Seven-Ten" (710) made by the nation's leading hardwood casket manufacturer, the (former) Marsellus Casket Company of Syracuse, NY., which already had provided the mahogany casket of President Truman. Although the "Seven-Ten" had a plain and unpretentious looking design of timeless simplicity, it was nevertheless an expensive luxury casket from solid 1-1/4" and 2-1/2" planks of up to 500 year old African mahogany trees - a fact which did not yet evoke any noticeable environmental criticism at that time. The understatement design had heavily rounded corners and all wooden swing bar handles with bronze tips and lugs. The Marsellus company had acquired the reputation of following extraordinarily high manufacturing standards in the production of its luxury caskets, involving a high percentage of hand crafting by expert craftsmen. The company accepted for example only 20% of the wood as meeting the "select grade" standard for ribbon grained mahogany. All casket parts were assembled with copper nails and brass screws. Marsellus also claimed that the amount of mahogany used in each 710 model was about 140 board feet - an equivalent of almost 3.700 square feet of veneer, enough for some 200 dining tables. The finishing process took about three weeks and consisted of a dozen different operations which included the application of half a dozen layers of sealer and lacquer as well as half a day of hand rubbing. President Kennedy's non ornamental, yet highly elegant and stylish mahogany casket had a brownish wooden stain and a semi gloss finish; inside, it featured a shirred champagne interior of non- rushing premium velvet and a moisture absorbing bed of pure white spun rayon. Gawler's Sons charged $ 2460 for the casket, which had a wholesale price of about 500 at that time, respectively an estimated 800 including an solid bronze inner liner. The high price of Kennedy's casket as well as the less common "hinged cap" design of its lid (of which only the uppermost part of the - divided - top was opened for viewing) seem to indicate that, probably, Kennedy's casket had been equipped with such a hermetically sealing inner bronze liner including a full length oval glass top, raising the weight of the (empty) casket from 260 to about 500 lbs. Due to the fact that the Marsellus # 710 model was also chosen for the burial of President Ford and Pres. Nixon, and probably for Pres. Hoover as well, this design has become almost synonymous with "the presidential casket" in the US.
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∙ 9y agoTwo caskets were used for the late President Kennedy.
The bronze casket in which his remains were taken from Dallas to the capital was manufactured by the (former) Elgin Metal Casket Company of Elgin, Ill., which had also produced the bronze casket of President Coolidge.
The mahogany casket in which he was buried was made by the (former) Marsellus Casket Company of Syracuse, NY., which also had manufactured the mahogany caskets of the Presidents Truman, Ford, Nixon, Reagan, and, probably, that of President Hoover, too.
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What casket was President Coolidge buried in?
When former President Calvin Coolidge died in 1933, he was buried in a polished solid bronze casket featuring a round corner design. It had been manufactured by the Elgin Metal Casket Company of Elgin, Ill., which had started building caskets in 1928 and which decades later provided the bronze casket in which President Kennedy was taken from Dallas to Washington. The top of the Coolidge casket had a hinged cap design: it had separately hinged bronze panels and was equipped with a hermetically sealing full length inner oval plate glass lid. Pictures of the casket at the viewing and at the graveside are available on the Internet.
Who made the casket for Nancy Reagan?
Nancy Reagan was buried in a solid mahogany "Masterpiece" design manufactured by Batesville. It was the same design which President Reagan had, although his casket had been made by the now-defunct Marsellus casket company of Syracuse,NY. Batesville bought the "Masterpiece" design from Marsellus.
What is an amber Britannia casket?
The term refers very probably to the casket in which the late President Kennedy was taken from Dallas to Washington. His "Handley" casket had been manufactured by the (former) Elgin Metal Casket Company of Elgin, (IL), which had provided the bronze casket of President Coolidge already. The "Handley" was a double lid sealer casket (without an inner glass panel) weighing more than 300 lbs empty. The exterior had what Elgin called a "Britannia finish" (meaning that the metal had been partially "brushed" or "scratched") with a transparent amber (dark reddish) tint. The interior consisted of an adjustable inner mattress and a white velvet and satin lining. The casket certainly would have been used for Kennedy's burial, had it not been damaged during the loading / unloading process by the Secret Service people who tore off the ornamental attachments of the swing bar handles. For that reason, it was replaced with a new casket (made of solid mahogany). The original Elgin casket eventually was dumped in the Atlantic ocean in 1966 by the Airforce in order to prevent it from becoming an object of morbid curiosity. The successor to the "Handley" model is still in production. A few years after President Kennedy's death, Elgin changed the flaring round corner design somewhat by giving it a more pronounced urn shape. After the Elgin company had been sold to the renown mattress producer Simmons in 1968, the "Handley" design was replaced by the "Winchester" model, which differed from its predecessor mainly by some embossings. The casket is still manufactured today by VerPlank Enterprises of Iron City (TN) and can be seen in the Online Catalog of the company.
Where can you purchase a nationl casket?
If a casket made by the National Casket Company (of Boston) is meant, the question is difficult to answer because that famous casket manufacturer - once a giant of the industry - went out of business in the 1980s already. Some caskets made by the company, especially their extremely expensive copper deposit or cast bronze models, may be still around in a few funeral homes.
Is it true Michael Jackson's casket is of Lucifer?
the casket was made by batesville casket company. I dont know how anyone could link that with lucifer. if you want to take a look at it, visit the related links box below where I posted the link with the casket.
Who made the bust of Kennedy in the Kennedy center?
he's name was Richard Oswalls he killed President Kennedy in Kennedy Center.
What kind of casket did Ted Kennedy have?
The pictures of his funeral show an urn shaped hardwood casket with a split lid and all wooden swing bar handles. The color of the wood seems to indicate that it was made of solid cherry.
Where can a national seamless copper deposit casket be purchased?
These caskets are no longer made. They were originally made by National Casket Company but this company is no longer in business. The only ones left are found in funeral homes that have not sold them. Let me add the following information: Currently there is an ad of a copper deposit casket at http://www.nomispublications.com but it is doubtful if this is a model originally made by National. It does not look like that and the ad says "nickel plated copper deposit", which does not fit either. The closest equivalent which is currently available seems to be the "Marquis", a thermo-deposited bronze casket manufactured by the York / Matthews casket company.
Were did they get John F. Kennedy's casket from?
With respect to your question concerning the issue of an open casket funeral (or lack thereof)for President Kennedy: In his excellent book, "The Death of a President" (one of the few books concerning President Kennedy written with the full cooperation of the Kennedy family), author William Manchester clarifies the issue of the open casket/closed casket issue and the decisions behind it: According to the book, neither Mrs. Kennedy nor Robert Kennedy were enthusiastic about an open casket funeral, but were cognizant of the fact that state funeral protocol often favored an open casket viewing so they went ahead and viewed the body in The White House to decide the issue once and for all. When the coffin was opened, they saw that the President's remains were certainly presentable for public viewing (his injuries in Dallas had not marred or disfigured his face in any way) but, as is often the case with remains prepared for open casket viewing, extensive cosmetics were used on the Presidents' face by the funeral directors which resulted in a made-up, somewhat artificial, unnatural appearance. It was decided by Mrs. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy after viewing the body that this heavy use of make-up was uncharacteristic of President Kennedy and that they would prefer that the public remember him in as he was in life, so they decreed that the coffin would remained closed during the funeral (a decision that many grieving families make and certainly not without precedent as far as a President is concerned; indeed, President Franklin Roosevelt also had a closed casket state funeral).
What was Michael Jackson's casket made of?
Michael Jackson's casket was made out of gold.
What u.s. president was buried in a 95 dollar casket?
p { margin-bottom: 0.25cm; line-height: 120%; }a:link { } Probably Dwight D. Eisenhower, although the figures of the casket price slightly vary. President Eisenhower was buried in a slightly modified regular soldier's casket made of steel, probably manufactured by the (former) Toccoa Casket Company. The casket was of rectangular design; it had the standard silver-gray color, an eggshell crepe interior and stationary bar handles. This standard "soldier's casket" was provided by the US government for its active or retired soldiers for $ 80 at the time. The casket of the former Five-Star General was slightly changed to custom order, though: it was equipped for another $ 115 with an inner glass lid which provided the casket with a hermetical seal.
What casket was president Lyndon Johnson buried in?
Quite a few people seem to be convinced that LBJ was buried in an oak casket, maybe because they have seen pictures of his graveside under a group of oak trees on his farm in the Texas Hill Country. But, as a matter of fact, he was buried in velvet lined silver-gray metal casket with dark swing bar handles manufactured by the (former) Belmont Casket Company of Columbus, Ohio. The round corner design of timeless simplicity was probably the "Columbus" model of the renown company, which had the reputation of producing stylish caskets of high quality. Belmont had also manufactured the solid bronze "Masterpiece" casket of Marilyn Monroe, but the company was first of all famous for its lead coated steel caskets, which had a corrosion resistant property. Already President Woodrow Wilson had been buried in a steel casket made by the Belmont company.
