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No, the Springfield Metallic Casket Company (SMC) has been out of business for decades.
After its foundation in Springfield, Ohio in 1884, the company soon acquired the reputation of being one of the leaders of the industry. In an advertisement at the end of the 19th century, SMC claimed that its bronze caskets were virtually indestructible. For other caskets it gave a 50 year warranty of protection from the intrusion of water. In 1900 the company came up with the innovation of a "burglar proof grave vault". Gradually SMC became became one of the largest manufacturers of metal caskets and metallic burial vaults in the United States, at times probably the largest. In the 1950s it had some 230 employees. Until 1943 the company possessed also a warehouse in Detroit; for this purpose, SMC had erected a building with a beautiful art deco front in 1930. Legend has it that the bronze casket Al Capone was buried in, had been manufactured by SMC. In the 1960s, the company lost its independence and became a division of Springfield Greene Industries, Inc.. About a decade later, in 1974, the SMC factory closed down.
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Is the Marsellus often misspelled Marcellus casket company of Syracuse still in business?
No, the Marsellus Casket Company closed its factories in 2003 after being 130 years in business.
Is the National Casket Company of Boston still in business?
No, the National Casket company ceased to exist in the 1980s, after having played a leading role in the American casket industries for almost a hundred years.
Is the Boyertown Casket Company still in business?
Boyertown closed down at the end of the 1980s.
What is Aurora Casket Company's population?
Aurora Casket Company's population is 2,003.
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.
What was the Springfield metallic casket company renown for?
The Springfield Metallic Casket Co. was one of the largest US manufacturers of metallic caskets and metal burial vaults. The company was founded in 1884 and soon gained the reputation of being a producer of high quality caskets which could be specified to custom order. Springfield acquired also an excellent reputation as a manufacturer of high end caskets: wrought copper and sheet bronze caskets, oftentimes equipped with a hermetically sealing inner glass lid, as well as cast bronze luxury caskets. At the end of the 1950s the company had 230 employees. The Springfield company was one of the first metal casket manufacturers giving a 50 year warranty which promised that their caskets remained water tight. According to rumors, Springfield provided the caskets of Buffalo Bill Cody in 1917 and also the square bronze casket of Al Capone in 1947, which cost $ 2.000 (retail) at that time. The company seat was in Springfield, Ohio at Main & Mechanic St., but there was also a warehouse and office in Detroit until 1943. The Art Deco building in Detroit was taken over by the Mortuary Science Department of Wayne State University for more than a decade. In the early 1960s the company became a division of Springfield Greene Industries, Inc.; later a subsidiary of A-T-O Corporation of Willoughby, Ohio. These changes were to no avail: the Springfield factory closed in 1974.
Is the Marsellus often misspelled Marcellus casket company of Syracuse still in business?
No, the Marsellus Casket Company closed its factories in 2003 after being 130 years in business.
Is the National Casket Company of Boston still in business?
No, the National Casket company ceased to exist in the 1980s, after having played a leading role in the American casket industries for almost a hundred years.
Is the Boyertown Casket Company still in business?
Boyertown closed down at the end of the 1980s.
What is Aurora Casket Company's population?
Aurora Casket Company's population is 2,003.
What is the population of Aurora Casket Company?
Aurora Casket Company's population is 1,500.
When was Aurora Casket Company created?
Aurora Casket Company was created in 1890.
What is the population of Batesville Casket Company?
Batesville Casket Company's population is 2,007.
When was Batesville Casket Company created?
Batesville Casket Company was created in 1884.
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.
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.
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.
