How much does this casket cost?

Answer 1

Prices vary from country to country. In the United States, the cheapest wooden caskets (like cloth covered particle board coffins) start at prices around $ 500. Cardboard caskets are even cheaper. The most expensive wooden casket is currently (in 2014) Batesville's (Marsellus) "Masterpiece" solid African Mahogany casket with a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $ 38,000, but offered by Online casket retailers already at prices around $ 16,000 (plus 2,000 for an optional carved top). Metal casket prices start around $ 700 for unsealed 20 gauge steel caskets (Online casket retailers), sealed metal caskets being somewhat more expensive. Sheet copper and bronze caskets are available from § 2,000 (Online casket retailers). The most expensive casket on the market is currently a 1,100 lbs heavy cast bronze Pharaoh Sarcophagus manufactured by the York-Matthews Company, offered at a manufacturer's suggested list price of

$ 270,000, but sold by discount casket retailers already at a "bargain" price of

$ 160,000. The casket prices charged by funeral homes are often considerably higher than those of Online casket retailers.

Answer 2

According to the National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA), the average retail price of a metal casket was $2,395 in 2012. (More than two thirds of all caskets sold in the US are metal caskets nowadays.)

Simple cloth covered wooden coffins, which often are used for cremation, start at retails prices around US $ 500. (Online casket retailer price; the prices charged by funeral homes are often, although not always, considerably higher). Simple caskets made of wood (with a wood finish) as well as 20 gauge steel casket without a sealing gasket are available at prices from around $ 1,000 upwards. Sheet Copper and bronze caskets start at $ 2,000 (Online price). Wooden luxury caskets made of solid mahogany which are between 2" and 4" thick, resulting in a weight between 400 and 600 lbs, can cost between $ 16,000 and 40,000 (particularly if equipped with one of the last copper or bronze inner liners). Mastercraft Casket Company of Graham, NC produces a 48 oz. bronze inner liner with a glass top for their line of what is considered by many to be the finest hardwood casket manufactured today. Copper deposit casket (made of electrolytically deposited copper) weighing between 600 and 800 lbs were even more expensive (currently - in 2014 - they are no longer in production). Today the most expensive casket on the US market is the cast bronze "Pharaoh Sarcophagus" made by the York-Matthews company: the casket, which weighs 1,100 lbs, has a manufacturer's suggested retail price of $ 270,000 , but it is offered by Online casket retailers already at a "bargain" price around $ 160, 000.

Answer 3

Casket prices vary considerably both at the wholesale and at the retail level. At the retail level, the prices charged by the funeral homes are often - although not always - considerably higher than those of Online casket retailers.

In the US, retail prices currently (in 2014) start around $ 500 for simple cloth covered wooden caskets as well as for wood veneer and very simple solid wood caskets. The cheapest hardwood caskets cost around $ 1,000. Metal caskets (unsealed 20 gauge steel) are available from about $ 700 upwards. Caskets made of semi precious metals (32 ga sheet copper or bronze) cost $ 2,000 upwards. The most expensive hardwood caskets (like Batesville's "Marsellus Masterpiece") can cost up to $ 40,000. The most expensive solid bronze casket (48 oz sheet bronze like Batesville's "Promethean" or York's "Marquis") can reach the same price level. The most expensive casket is currently York's 1,100 lbs heavy cast bronze "Pharaoh Sarcophagus" with a manufacturer's recommended retail price of around $ 270,000.