Coffins Collection

Military honours for dead of R101
French homage to Britains dead in the great airship R101 disaster: the moving final scene at Beauvais - Spahis saluting the coffins, borne on French artillery wagons

Cabaret du Neant (Cabaret of Nothingness or Death) - a ghost show cabaret, where ghosts were shown before the amazed audience via optical trickery and special effects

Constantinople. Tomb of Turhan Hatice Valide Sultan
Ottoman Empire. Turkey. Constantinople (today Istanbul). Tomb of Turhan Hatice Valide Sultan (1627-1683). Haseki Sultan of the Ottoman Sultan Ibrahim (reign 1640-1648)

St. Michan's Mummies - St. Michan's Church - Dublin, Ireland. Date: circa 1910s

Second coffin of Tutankhamun
The second of three coffins of Pharao Tutankhamun (reigned 13321323 BC), as discovered by Howard Carter among others in 1922 in the Valley of Kings

Startling Stories - The Gods Hate Kansas by Joseph J. Millard. A tentacled alien grips a man and woman in its clutches. The man tries to defeat the monster by attacking it with a taser

Coffin of Duke of Albany 1884
The room in the Villa Nevada, Cannes, containing the coffin of Prince Leopold, The Duke of Albany, son of Queen Victoria. He died of haemophilia Date: 1884

HAPSBURG VAULT
The funeral vault at Vienna of the Hapsburgs, the Imperial family of the Austrian Empire. The coffins are of a size appropriate to such mighty folk. Date: circa 1840

WELLINGTON COFFIN
The coffin of the Duke of Wellington. Date: 1852

INVITATION TO DEATH
The grave's a fine and private place... - Death invites a young aristocrat to join him among the coffins. Date: 1792

Perishable Coffins 1875 Death Funerals Exhibition
perishable, coffins, 1875, death, funerals, exhibition, stafford, house, mr, seymour, haden, made, wicker, the, of, and, with, at, by, 1870s, victorian, biodegradable, coffin

REMAINS OF BANCROFT
For some reason, the coffin of Francis Bancroft is opened, and this is what is found... Date: 1818

COFFIN/PRINCESS AMELIA
The coffin of Princess Amelia, daughter of King George III Date: 1810

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

Cemetery of a Capuchin convert, near Palermo
Catacombs in Palermo, Sicily consists of a large subterranean space, clean and airy, divided into galleries, surrounded with nichies after the bodies were dehydrated on the racks of ceramic pipes in

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

Norman Arch - St Marys Priory Church, Old Malton
Norman Arch in the Graveyard of St Marys Priory Church, Old Malton - a small arched doorway, a fragment from the once much more extensive buildings of the priory around the main church

Grave goods from Dollerup in Jutland. Two drinking horns wit
Grave goods from a rich double burial of a magnate and his wife found at Dollerup in Jutland. In the womans grave lay two drinking horns with bronze mountings. National Museum of Denmark

India - The Tazias
A black and white lantern slide of men following decorated coffins. Slide number 29 of Box 221 Boswell Collection Date: circa 1890s

Sir Thomas Parkyns
SIR THOMAS PARKYNS wrestling enthusiast and collector of coffins... Date: 1664 - 1741

Serbian Orthodox burial - WW1 era. Date: 1917

Heysham Church and Stone Coffin - Lancashire
Heysham Church and Medieval Stone Coffin - Lancashire Date: 1905

Paris / Notre Dame 1863
Notre Dame de Paris, inauguration of the archbishops crypt Date: 9 January 1863

Cabaret du N顮t (Cabaret of Nothingness or Death)
Cabaret du NÚí«t (Cabaret of Nothingness or Death) was a ghost show cabaret, where ghosts were shown before the amazed audience via optical trickery and special effects

Funeral 1932
Funeral ceremony. Malmo, Sweden, 1932. Date: 1932

Plague in China 1911
Stacking coffins containing victims of bubonic plague, preparatory to burning, at Tientsin, China. 1911

Funeral
Wake. The widow grieves for her husband. c. 1900

Plague in China 1911 2
Burning coffins containing victims of bubonic plague, at Tientsin, China. 1911

Coffins of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife
The coffins of the assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife. July 1914

Pilot funeral
Funeral of two flyers (Captain Liljeberg and Nils Uttergard, the telegraphist) at the Swedish Aerotransport Co. 1932.They died when they tried to make a forced landing with their airliner

Tombs of Sultans Ahmed I & Murad IV
The Tombs of Sultans Ahmed I and Murad IV

Carlos I Funeral
The bodies of the assassinated King Carlos I of Portugal and his son Dom Luiz the Crown Prince lie in glass-lidded coffins at the Church of Sao Vicente de Fora in Lisbon

Royal Graves Vandalised
Hatred of the ancien regime is carried to extremes when vandals break into the crypt at Saint-Denis, take the royal corpses from their coffins and throw them in a common ditch

Rus-Jap War / Coffins
Coffins of Russian casualties are attended to by a Russian Orthodox Priest

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