Burial Casket
date: label: associated date
content: 1878
label: patent date
content: 1879-02-11
name: label: inventor
content: Shannon, James
notes: label: Description
content: Patent model for James Shannon, “Improvement in Coffins,” U.S. Patent 212,273 (Feb. 11, 1879). Shannon's coffin would "prevent displacement of the corpse within the coffin" when it was transferred, and also discourage grave robbers ("body-snatchers" or "resurrectionists') by means of several buckled straps secured to the coffin and around the corpses waist and ankles.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
label: associated place
content: United States: Maryland, Baltimore
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CL.65.0333
label: accession number
content: 249602
label: catalog number
content: 65.0333
label: accession number
content: 249602
label: patent number
content: 212,273
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Coffin, Burial
label: Object Name
content: burial casket, patent model
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cloth (?? material)
label: Physical Description
content: cloth (doll material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (lid material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (?? material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (tag, patent material)
label: Physical Description
content: plaster of paris (doll material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (lid material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (?? material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (doll material)