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What is a bronze or copper inner casket liner with full oval glass lid?
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A casket liner is a coffin inside a burial casket.
While zinc or steel liners are used for international shipments of remains, copper or bronze liners are primarily used in wooden luxury caskets to give them a protective quality against the elements, especially against ground water. Unfortunately, the terminology varies: sometimes the expression "inner liner" is reserved to a liner not possessing a sealing gasket while a hermetically sealing (air and water tight) liner sometimes is called "inner sealer". It seems that such liners are no longer manufactured in the US.
The liners were usually made of standard 32oz copper or bronze sheets. The (empty) weight of 32oz bronze liners with glass lid was between 200 and 250 lbs. Their wholesale price was approximately half the price of a standard bronze or copper casket. The lid was either of metal or of plate glass. If the glass lid had almost the length of the casket, it was called a full lid. Usually the glass lid was not flat but oval, possessing a slight dome shape. In rare cases, the glass lid was covered by an additional protective metal lid which usually was divided into two halves (a head end panel and a foot end panel).
Many wooden caskets could be retrofitted with inner casket liners. Thus the same casket could be purchased with or without an inner liner. The funeral director just had to remove the textile lining from the wooden casket, place the metallic liner into the casket and reattach the textile lining to the inside of the casket liner. Wooden caskets designed for being equipped with an inner liner possessing a glass lid usually have a "hinged cap" lid, which means that not the complete - full or half - top opens up for viewing, but only the "cap" or "crown", while the "ogee" or frame of the lid remains attached to the base of the casket. The rather small opening of the wooden top in hinged cap caskets has the effect that just the glass lid is visible and not the metal liner.
Casket liners must not be confused with grave liners (non protective burial vaults) or with metal or plastic liners inside of a concrete burial vault.
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