What kind of casket did Jackie Onassis have?

Answer 1

The same kind of casket that her first husband had: a Marsellus # 710 mahogany casket.

The casket was manufactured by the famous Marsellus Casket Company of Syracuse (NY), which had acquired the reputation of being the finest manufacturer of hardwood caskets in America. The "Seven Ten" design (which was the company's third most expensive) was chosen for the burial of John F. Kennedy and several other American presidents (Ford, Nixon, and probably also for Hoover) as well, and therefore became something like an unofficial "presidential casket" in the US. Although the model 710 is a plain and unpretentious looking design of timeless simplicity, representing the understatement style of the Eastern elite, it is nevertheless an expensive luxury casket made from solid 1-1/4" and 2-1/2" planks of African mahogany. The casket has heavily rounded corners and all wooden swing bar handles with bronze tips and lugs. It usually comes with a premium velvet interior over a moisture absorbing mattress of pure spun rayon- The Marsellus company was renown for following extraordinarily high manufacturing standards in the production of its luxury caskets, involving a high percentage of handcrafting 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 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. The empty weight of the 710 was 255 lbs; with an inner bronze liner it almost doubled. Nowadays the design is manufactured by the Batesville company under the new name (Marsellus) "President". In 2014, its manufacturer's suggested retail price was $ 13,000 (without a carved lid), but Online retailers offered the casket already at prices starting at "just" $ 6,000.