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Corner

These coffins were segmented, so wakes and viewings still might have been held. A pallbearer handle can be seen here.

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As a Funeral Director I'm amazed at this image. This style of casket is long extinct and to see one in this condition is eerie in the extreme. I wish I could examine this more closely.
Lee.
Tue 06-14-2005
Wow, how long ago have these been out of service? What kind of value did they have (were they bottom of the barrel cheap)?

I really didn't know what to look for while photographing them, otherwise I would've taken close up shots of the important details that make this casket model what it is!
Motts
Tue 06-14-2005
looks like something right out of a Dracula movie!
silkster40z
Mon 07-18-2005
hey were is this place?!?
goth-kid7666
Fri 01-27-2006
forget that i just read the disclaimer.......amazing pic tho
goth_kid7666
Fri 01-27-2006
How about a white water trip down the Colorado. What a trip.
John Mac
Mon 02-06-2006
I would love to have this wall paper on my computer at work to freak out my co-workers, but we share our desks with two other shifts. awesome pic, I'll just admire it on your site Mr. Motts.
patty
Sat 06-24-2006
i love this picture.
manidalisa
Fri 07-28-2006
TIME TO GET THE HELL OUTTA THERE...LOL
BROWNIE
Fri 02-23-2007
Take a peek... Go on... I dare ya! ;-)
unidyne
Mon 03-05-2007
Now that's what I call CREEEEEEEEEPYYYYYYY!!!!!
Although I guess it may be quite comfortable...
But then I'd be dead....so then I couldn't complain then could I?
Canada
Sun 03-25-2007
Plain coffins with muslin lining and straw stuffing for padding are still made by the Trappist monks in Indiana. Both my parents chose this style.
Dweena
Thu 05-31-2007
I just came across this site at work, and I must say, of all the pictures I have seen, this set, by far, is the most interesting to me. It would be surreal to be inside of an abandoned place, and see something like this.

Keep up the good work Motts
Taubin
Sat 11-10-2007
I don't think one of those coffin have been seen since the victorian era. Although they were fairly cheap to make they were sturdy and well made. Seeing the condition of this one amazes me.
Wormfood
Tue 12-11-2007
I work in a funeral home and this is an extiinct style of casket did you open the lids or find them open were there any skeletal remains found..
Ronda
Wed 07-22-2009
They were closed, no remains were inside - left in the basement for storage presumably.
Motts
Wed 07-22-2009
i would go ther in a heart beat its really scary but intresting
stephanie
Fri 07-31-2009
thay still make almost the same style now days for wellfair funerals we had a fat guy in one one day and the funneral director told us to hold the bottem of the casket incase the bottem fell out i looked at him like you have got to be kiding me it was a bunch of b s scared the shit out of me with the family standing there crying and i was thinking this guy might come out to the world one last time /thay are coverd with a cheap vinyl meterial and plywood glue and news papers for stuffing or padding i have seen them almost come apart real cheap////
thomas burgess
Thu 03-18-2010

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