Coffins

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.

It prevents the weight of the dirt from crushing the lid.

A catafalque or a casket bier.

If its recent, i think you're referring to a song by Oasis a couple of years ago with the actor Rhys Ifans in it -'the importance of being idle'.

or perhaps not!

At one point in his death Lincoln was buried in the basement of his tomb with pieces of wood stacked on top of him. Each time he was moved his coffin was opened. The last time was in the early 1900's. Totally he was unburied for over 35 years and probably moved 10-15 times.

Standard copper and bronze caskets - made of 32 oz sheets of wrought metal (one square foot of a copper or bronze sheet weighing 32 ounces) have an (empty) weight starting around 200 lbs. More expensive copper and bronze caskets made of 48 oz (and in rare cases of 64 oz or 96 oz) sheets as well as caskets having a double lid usually weigh between 300 and 400 lbs. Copper deposit caskets (caskets made by electrolytically depositing copper molecules upon a casket form usually made of sheet copper) have a weight between 600 and 800 lbs. Cast bronze caskets (made from molten bronze poured into a casket mold) weigh between 1,000 and 1,200 lbs.

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Mainly lower priced coffins, especially cloth covered wooden caskets, are made of softwood. The term does not necessarily mean that the wood is soft - some softwoods are relatively hard - but that it its wood from conifers (needle or cone bearing trees). The softwoods most often used in coffins are Pine, Poplar, Spruce, Red Cypress, Cedar and Redwood).

Usually higher priced caskets are made of hardwood (wood from broad leaved trees) like ash, birch, cherry, maple, oak, walnut and mahogany.

In simple wooden coffins, the lid is nailed or screwed upon the base of the coffin.

American caskets usually lock.

A coffin possessing the shape of a mummy (the shape of a human body).

In a double casket, the outer casket usually is ornamental and made of a thicker material.

The inner casket is usually unfinished and made of a thinner or lighter material.

Probably the main reason was the absence or bad quality of embalming. The glass panel allowed the mourners to look at the deceased without the presence of any unpleasant odors resulting from the progressing decomposition of the remains. Modern quality embalming temporarily eliminates any bad odors. For the funeral director, a glass lid offers the additional advantage that the corpse cannot be touched by the mourners. The touching of the deceased easily can destroy the cosmetic work or the hair style. Besides the improvements in embalming, both price and weight reasons have led to the disappearance of the "glass sealer" casket. Gasket sealers are much cheaper than "glass sealers", which also increased the weight of the casket between 50 and 100 lbs. Another reason was the fact that the low position of the deceased in a glass lid casket tends to increase the negative impression of lying in a "box". Nevertheless, even today some caskets - usually top of the line copper or bronze models - still have a full length oval inner glass lid, which is also a very common feature of (the more and more rare) inner copper or bronze liners for luxury wooden caskets. Zinc liners for international shipments of remains usually still have a (usually rather small) glass lid.

"The Day of the Dead"

Prayer rail or kneeler.

I believe it is in the area of Washington Street and Arch Street intersection in Dover

Yes they do. Coffins made out of any type of wood without being reinforced with a much stronger material would collapse within a matter of days. Even a steel coffin is deformed by the weight of the dirt above. Also in a climate where it is more likely to rain (such as northern Europe), a coffin can collapse on the same day if not reinforced due to the moisture in the soil.

Standard metal caskets (20ga steel) weigh around 200 lbs empty. Most solid (sheet) copper or bronze caskets have a weight between 250 and 350 lbs. Copper deposit caskets (made of electrolytically deposited copper) between 600 and 800 lbs. Cast bronze caskets (cast from molten bronze like bells) between 1,000 and 1,200 lbs.

I believe the beard is used only on images of a king.

Alfred O. Coffin went to school and received a Master's and Ph.D in biology at IL Wesleyan University in 1889, he also taught for 2 years at Alcorn Agricultural & Mechanical College. But his greatest accomplishment was The Prigin of the Mound Builders, which tracked the ancient Indian mound builders of the Mississippi Valley to their origin in Southeast Mexico.

White is a symbol of purity. White is a symbol of purity, but it may also be because of the fact that the child might have been caught in the crossfire of something that he wasn't really involved with. One last thought, white coffins could stand for innocence in that the child was below the age of accountability, that is, to not be aware of his own sin.

No, carpenters make coffins.