Coffin Collection (page 4)

Funeral ceremony and burial of a high-ranking Berber, with wives mourning at the graveside. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrarios Ancient

Egyptian mummies and coffins
Egyptian mummies: mummy in coffin 1, coffin cover 2, bird urn 3, bird urn without cover 4, mummy of an embalmed ibis 5, and plan of underground chambers in a pyramid

The Kitchener Coffin Hoax: Frank Power, freelance journalist
The Kitchener Coffin Hoax: Frank Power (real name Arthur Vectis Freeman), freelance journalist. who earned notoriety as the author of the Great Kitchener Yarn - Power claimed to have brought

Christmas cracker box lid by William Haskell Coffin

Cemetery at Cairo, Egypt. circa 1860

Emigration - Half a mind to go back again. 19th century

Crew of HMS Danae, funeral parade, Hong Kong, China
Crew of HMS Danae, funeral parade passing a tram stop in Wong Nai Chong Road, Hong Kong, China. It was for William John Barnes who died on 5 October 1927

Return of the remains of Napoleon I on board ship
Return of the remains of Napoleon I on board the Belle Poule. Date: 1840

King George IV lying in state, Windsor Castle. Date: 1830

Funeral of a Plantation Guard
A double line of guards stand by the coffin of a plantation guard, ready to proceed, with a squad of soldiers behind them as a funeral procession

The funeral of Sir Arthur Pearson, 1921
A page from The Illustrated London News detailed the funeral of Sir Cyril Arthur Pearson (1866-1921), English newspaper and magazine publisher and benefactor of the blind. Date: 1921

The benediction of Maximilians Body at Capuchin Church
Various nobles stand in attendance as the bishops perform the benediction on the body of Emperor Maximilian, at the Capuchin Church in Vienna

Return of Maximilians Body to Europe
Transporting the body of Maximilian from the floating catafalque onto the funeral chariot of the court. Crowds of people watch as Maximilians coffin is moved from the floating catafalque to

Body of Maximilian back in Austria 1868
Maximilians resting place in the Imperial Crypt in Vienna, moved there after being embalmed and displayed in Mexico for a year. A monk stands by the coffin decorated in wreaths and sashes

Gun carriage and soldiers at funeral of Unknown Warrior
Gun carriage flanked by soldiers, with a flag-draped coffin, during the funeral of the Unknown Warrior, brought from France, via Dover and Victoria Station

King Edward VII burial in St. George s, Windsor 1910
Funeral service of King Edward VII at St. George s, Windsor, coffin being descenede into the subterranean passage leading to th Royal vault. Date: May 1910

Funeral procession of King Edward VII 1910
The funeral procession of King Edward VII in London, with his eldest son George V, Kaiser, Wilhelm II and Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught on horseback behind. Date: 20 May 1910

King Edward VII, Lying-in-State 1910
Page of two photographs of King Edward VII, King of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India, top photograph, Lying-in-State in Westminster Hall, coffin guarded by Gentleman-at-Arms and Yeomen

Death of Edward VII - soldiers guard coffin 1910
While the body of the late King lay in state in the Throne room of Buckingham Palace, the guard was kept by the Grenadiers. Date: 1910

Stationery, N Means & Sons, Outwell, Norfolk
Stationery (invoice and receipt), N Means & Sons, Undertakers, Downham Road, Outwell, Norfolk, dated 29 April 1914. 1914

Charles Hayden Coffin (1862 - 1935), English actor and singer known for his performances in many famous Edwardian musical comedies, photograph of Hayden taken up the role in Veronique at the Apollo

The despoiled coffins of Meryet-Amun at Deir el Bahri, 1929
A page from The Illustrated London News entitled: An Egyptian Queens tomb looted: the despoiled coffins of Meryet-Amun at Deir el Bahri. 1929

Madagascar - Toamasina (Tamatave) - Cemetery for the local indigenous people. Date: circa 1906

Death of Edward VII - Lying-in-state 1910
Edward VII lying-in-state in the Throne room, Buckingham Palace. Keeping watch over the coffin were four Grenadiers, coffin covered with the pall used at the funeral of Queen Victoria

Funeral of William Ewart Gladstone, four times British Prime Minister. Placing the body in the train at Broughton Hall Station. Date: 1898

Lying-in-State of late King George V - Westminster Hall
Late Majesty, King George Lying-in-State in Westminster Hall, London, for the four days. Around the Royal coffin on its dais, isolated amid the wide spaces

Premature burial (L Inhumation pr飩pit饩by Antoine Wiertz
The premature burial (L Inhumation pr飩 pit饩, a 1854 painting by Belgian artist Antoine Wiertz, shows a cholera victim waking up after having been placed in a coffin and buried alive)

Coffin of priest Ken-Hor. Egypt
Rectangular outer coffin of Ken-Hor. Four corner posts and vaulted lid. Wood. 600 BC. 26th Dynasty. Grave of priest Ken-Hor. Akhmim-Sohag. Neues Museum. Berlin. Germany

Lenin in Coffin
VLADIMIR LENIN lying in state in his coffin prior to being permanently housed in Red Square. Date: 1870 - 1924

Derelict Tirpentwys Colliery, Pontypool, South Wales
View of the derelict Tirpentwys Colliery near Pontypool in South Wales. The foreground is littered with pieces of wood, including an empty coffin which has broken apart. The colliery closed in 1969

T E Lawrence Funeral
Funeral at St Nicholas Church, Moreton, Dorset of British archaeologist, soldier, intelligence officer and writer, Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1935), known as Lawrence of Arabia

Funeral procession, Naples, Italy. Date: late 19th century

Body of the late King George of Greece to Athens 1913
The body of the late King George of Greece was conveyed with all state from Salonica, where he was assassinated in the hour of his countrys victory, to the capital city of Athens

London Trade Card - Henry Sidgier, Carpenter
London Trade Card - Henry Sidgier, carpenter, joiner and undertaker, near Temple Bar. 18th century

Phoenician art. Cyprus. Marble anthropoid sarcophagus with womans head. Last quarter of the 5th century B.C. It comes from a tomb at Amathus (Cyprus). Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York

Dr a I Coffin
DR A I COFFIN : medical : Pioneer of medical botany who introduced Thomsons ideas to Europe : in 1845 he founded the Association of Herbal Medicine, authored books. Date: mid-19th century

Charles Eugene Jules Marie Nungesser, pilot and fighter
Charles Eugene Jules Marie Nungesser (1892-?1927), French pilot and fighter ace. Seen here leaning against his Nieuport 23, bearing his macabre personal emblem, and with three medals on his uniform

Tomb of Ines de Castro. 14th c. PORTUGAL. Alcoba确; Monastery of Santa Maria. Gothic art. Sculpture on marble

Winston Churchills funeral, coffin bearers carrying Churchi
Watched by the mourning Churchill s, the massive oak coffin is carried with agonising care from St Paul s. Date: 6th February 1965

Edward VIIs death, Westminster Hall
King Edward VIIs lying in state at Westminster Hall, London May 16th - 19th 1910

Death of King Edward VII
Page from The Sphere memorial number published at the time of the death of King Edward VII, showing the King on his death bed in the top photograph, and below

The coffin of Prince Albert before the funeral
The coffin of Prince Albert, late husband of Queen Victoria, in the audience chamber, Windsor Castle, the night before the funeral

The Funeral of Prince Albert
The funeral ceremony of Prince Albert taking place in the choir. The coffin lies in state

Mr C. Hayden Coffin
Charles Hayden Coffin (22 April 1862 8 December 1935) English actor and singer known for his performances in many famous Edwardian musical comedies, particularly those produced by George Edwardes

Third coffin of Tutankhamun in stone sarcophagus
The innermost coffin of Pharao Tutankhamun (reigned 13321323 BC), as discovered by Howard Carter among others in 1922 in the Valley of Kings

The funeral of Prince Louis Napoleon, 1897
The funeral of the late Prince Imperial Louis Napoleon(1856-1879) - Queen Victoria and Princess Beatrice placing a wreath and a cross on the coffin at Camden House. Date: June 1897

Pottery bath with four loop handles used probably as a coffi
A pottery bath with four loop handles used probably as a coffin. Tell Abu-Hawam. Rockefeller Archaeological Museum. Jerusalem. Israel

Anthropoid clay coffin. 12th century BC
Anthropoid clay coffin. Beth Shean. 12th century BC. Rockefeller Archaeological Museum. Jerusalem. Israel

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