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What companies manufacture or manufactured cast bronze caskets?
Currently (in 2014) there is only one company which produce cast bronze caskets - caskets which are not welded from sheets of wrought sheet bronze, but units which are cast like bells from molten bronze poured into a form - in the US: the York-Matthews company makes the "Pharaoh Sarcophagus" model, a cast bronze casket weighing 1,100 lbs and offered at a manufacturer's suggested list price of $ 270,000, but available from Online casket retailers at a "bargain" price of 160,000. The casket is cast in Italy, but marketed in the US. In the second half of the 20th century, there were still three companies in the US which produced cast bronze caskets: the Boyertown Burial Casket Company, the Springfield Metallic Casket Company and finally the National Casket Company of Boston, which manufactured the famous "Sarcophagus" caskets, one of which was used for the burial of Henry Ford. A cast bronze casket is also shown in the Fine Art Casting Gallery of Kassons Casting, a firm located in Austin, TX. Unfortunately, there is no information given for which casket supplier this unit was casted; perhaps for the SCI corporation, as both firms are from Texas.
What was the former Marsellus casket company known for?
The former Marsellus Casket Company was renown as the leading hardwood casket manufacturer in the US. Marsellus caskets were regarded as the finest - and most expensive - hardwood caskets in America.
Is the Toccoa casket company still in business?
No, Toccoa casket company closed down decades ago, probably around the year 2000. The company which had its plant at W. Currahee St. in Toccoa had been one of the big casket manufacturers in the US and the largest in the state of Georgia. Until the Vietnam War, it had been also the largest supplier of caskets to the U. S. Military. Later it was also one of the large suppliers of all wooden jewish orthodox style caskets. At the end of the 20th century Toccoa was also one of the few manufacturers of hermetically sealing copper and bronze inner casket liners for wooden caskets in the US. Legend has it that Toccoa Casket provided the - glass top liner equipped - cherry casket in which Martin Luther King was buried, after the bronze casket in which he had been taken from Memphis to Atlanta had been exchanged for a more modest looking hardwood model.
Who are the top three casket companies in the US?
in 2010 the three largest casket manufacturers were: - Batesville (part of Hillenbrand Industries) - Aurora (includes Clarksburg) - Matthews International, Casket Division (includes Milso and York)
What was the former Boyertown burial casket renown for?
During the last three decades of its existence, the Boyertown Burial Casket Company, founded in the picturesque Pennsylvania smalltown in 1893 by a local banker, was known as the second largest producer (after the National Casket Co.) of a full line of caskets both for adults and children distributing its products on a nationwide basis. In that period, Boyertown manufactured approximately 5% of all caskets in the US, being the third largest casket maker in the country. (The largest manufacturer was Batesville, but that company produced metal caskets only at that time). Boyertown had now 23 branch offices with warehouses and selection rooms in all parts of the country. The headquarter of the company was located at North Walnut Street in Boyertown, PA, which at the beginning of the second half of the 20th was called "the casket capital of the United States." The Boyertown Burial Casket Company was the largest employer in town. From the very start of the company, the aim of the founders had been not just to supply Boyertown and the surrounding area with caskets, but to make better caskets than had been available. Due to the success of the founders, the Boyertown plant had 600 employees by 1910. Boyertown became one of the very few companies in the US which manufactured not only hardwood and cloth covered softwood caskets, but also wide a variety of metal caskets: steel, zinc, copper and bronze caskets welded from wrought metal sheets, as well as several designs of copper-deposited caskets (made by a time consuming electrolytic process): These rare luxury caskets, which weigh about three times as much and cost about ten times as much as a standard sheet copper casket, were manufactured only by very few companies. One of the Boyertown copper deposit caskets (the model # 2471) was double walled, featuring an outer copper deposited 48oz bronze casket and another inner 32oz solid bronze casket. This luxury model had a hermetically sealing triple lid: the outer one was undivided, the middle one consisted of divided panels; the innermost lid was not made of copper deposited bronze like the two others, but consisted of an undivided full length oval plate glass panel. The brass bar handles of the casket were attached in such a way that they did not penetrate the wall of the outer casket. The casket was available with either a statuary bronze finish or with a silver plated exterior. At the very top of their line, Boyertown offered several cast bronze caskets of different designs costing about three times as much as their copper deposited caskets and weighing about twice as much. In1968, the company started a big expansion program with the aim to become Americas largest casket manufacturer. But the resignation in 1975 of the last company president from the founder's family Mory led to the the downfall of the company, after Boyertown together with National Casket had became the first casket companies publicly traded on the stock exchange in the 1960s. Being run by the Wall Street holding company Tweedy Brown, Inc., Boyertown got a new management which followed a strict "shareholder value" course which resulted in strained relations with the workers, especially with the union members, culminating in a long and bitter strike in 1985. A new production system and a 10 hour shift were introduced with the intention to increase the output from 250 caskets a day to 300, but production fell instead to 200 caskets a day, 60% of them being metal caskets. In 1986 the company was bought by AMEDCO, a subsidiary of the Houston based funeral supply giant Service Corporation International (SCI), which decided to closed the factory in 1988- After the demise of once famous Boyertown Burial Casket Company, only a casket plant of the York Casket Company remained in the city of Boyertown. The Boyertown Burial Casket Company had built one of the caskets used by the famous Hungarian-American magician and stunt performer Harry Houdini: in 1925 he used an air and water tight Boyertown metal casket for a special demonstration in the art of survival: Houdini remained for an hour and a half in the sealed casket at the bottom of a hotel swimming pool without any visible means of obtaining air. Boyertown provided also the hardwood casket for the burial U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy (brother to the late President John F. Kennedy).
Is the story of Grimsby and Streaper Casket company true?
If it is real then there are multiple Grimsby and Streaper Casket companies because Ripley's has built the same Museums on the same Grimsby and Streaper Casket properties around the us.
Why is a burial vault required when burying a coffin?
In the US, a burial vault is not required by law. Oftentimes it is required by cemetery regulations because a vault prevents the grave to cave in as a result of a deterioration of the casket and / or the use of heavy cemetery maintenance machinery.
What state in the us has the largest native American burial ground?
The largest Indian burial ground in located in Snow Hill, North Carolina. The exact number is not completely known but it is the largest. East Carolina University did a dig there in the 90s and found it.
What is the largest private company in the US?
Cargill is the largest private company in the United States
Is the J J Meany casket company of Iowa still in business?
Definitely yes! Due to the fact that the JJ Meany Company is probably the only casket manufacturer in the US which does not yet have its own website, the company has falsely been listed as inactive in several business directories. But as a matter of fact, the J. J. Meany Casket Company is still active (in 2014) and has even expanded its activities from the production of hand crafted metal caskets to wooden urns. As Meany Casket is probably the only casket manufacturer not advertising its products, perhaps some additional information on the history and activities of this unique company might be helpful.
Who made coffins in 1880?
In most cases, caskets were made by local furniture and cabinet makers who served also as undertakers, building coffins on an "as needed" basis. In the US, the main impulse for the founding of specialized casket makers came during the Civil War, when thousands of coffins were needed to transport dead soldiers. In 1870, the J. M. Hutton Company of Richmond, IN (founded in 1845) began to concentrate all its activities on making caskets. In the 1880s there existed already several casket companies in the US, for example the Stein Manufacturing Co. founded 1872 in Rochester, NY - a company which later became the famous National Casket Company with its headquarter in Boston. In the same year, the Marsellus casket company - which probably became the most famous hardwood manufacturer of America - was founded in Syracuse, NY. Also the parent company of the renown Crane & Breed Company of Cincinnati, OH (founded under that name in 1882) was already in existence: since the mid 1860s, Martin H. Crane had experimented with wrought sheet iron as a less expensive alternative to cast iron, and by the end of the decade he had developed the industry's first sheet metal casket which could be mass produced. In 1884 the renown Springfield metallic casket company was founded The beginnings of the Batesville casket company - nowadays the largest casket manufacturer in the US - go back to the same year. Batesville became the most important pioneer of reasonably priced steel caskets and gasket sealer caskets.
What is the difference in price between a copper deposit casket and a bronze cast casket?
The question is somewhat difficult to answer because copper deposited casket were manufactured until the 1980s only. Cast bronze and copper deposited caskets are the most expensive and the most heavy metal caskets available. While cast bronze caskets weigh between 1,000 and 1,200 lbs, copper deposit caskets have a weight between 600 and 800 lbs. The price difference between these caskets (which were manufactured by the Boyertown Burial Casket Company and by the National Casket Company of Boston) in the 1970s was as follows: cast bronze casket had a wholesale price between US $ 15,000 and 19,000 while copper deposited caskets cost between $ 5,000 and 6,000 wholesale (plus approximately $ 1,000 for an optional silver plated exterior).
