RARE Manuscript Billhead Receipt- Engraving Funeral Coffin Plates 1895 Auburn NY for Sale

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RARE Manuscript Billhead Receipt- Engraving Funeral Coffin Plates 1895 Auburn NY For Sale

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RARE Manuscript Billhead Receipt- Engraving Funeral Coffin Plates 1895 Auburn NY:
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RARE Original Manuscript Billhead Receipt
Engraving Coffin Plates for Several DeceasedTallman Funeral HomeAuburn, New York1895

For offer, a rare piece of ephemera! Fresh from an old prominent estate. Never offered on the market until now. Vintage, Old, Original - NOTa Reproduction - Guaranteed !!

This came directly from papers from the Tallman Funeral home in Auburn, NY. He was a prominent undertaker in the Auburn area for many years. This ms. receipt lists many names of people who passed away in December of 1895. F.W. Brown engraved plates for the coffins, I assume with names on them. Interesting and unusual piece of history.In good to very good condition. Fold marks. NOTE: Will be sent folded up as found. Please see photos and scans for all details and condition. If you collect19thcentury Americana advertisement ad history, United States mourning, American post mortem, funeral, death or cemetery related. etc.this is a nice one for your paper or ephemera collection. Genealogy research importance as well. Combine shipping on multiple offer wins! 3041

From \"The New Century Atlas of Cayuga County New York\", 1904
Selah Cornwell Tallman, Undertaker,
Son of John K. and Mary Cornwell Tallman, was born at Scipio, Cayuga County, New York, December 20, 1855. Educated in the public schools of Auburn and Auburn High School, he also studied shorthand and type writing and in 1878 went with C. Aultman & Co., manufacturers of agricultural machinery, Canton, Ohio, where he was employed for about a year and a half, when he went to Syracuse as private secretary to William A. Sweet, and from there to Auburn, with Sheldon & Co., axle manufacturers, where he remained for two years. He was them appointed official stenographer of the County and Surrogate\'s Courts, and for fourteen years served in that capacity, and as extra reporter in the United States and Supreme Court of New York State. He also sold the Remington and Smith-Premier typewriters, and carried on an extensive portrait-copying establishment, in partnership with W. I. Bennett, under the name S. C. Tallman & Co. At the death of his father, J. K. Tallman, in May, 1893, took up the undertaking department of his extensive livery, coach, and undertaking business, in partnership with his brother, under the firm name of H. A. & S. C. Tallman. At the death of his brother, Humphrey A. Tallman, in April, 1898, purchased his interest in the business. He is now conducting this business, under his own name, at 17, 19, 21, 23, and 25 Dill Street, as well as at 20 Water Street, employing from twenty to twenty-five men and over forty horses. He was married in 1878 to Tillie C. Bradford, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and has two sons students in Cornell University, J. Bradford Tallman and Carol Cornwell Tallman. He is a Director of the Business Men\'s Association, member of the Royal Arcanum, Historical Society, City Club, Syracuse Automobile Club, and honorary member of the Syracuse Undertaker\'s Association, also member of the New York State Undertaker\'s Association,. He is an officer of the Auburn Automobile Club.Auburn is a city in Cayuga County, New York, United States. Located at the north end of Owasco Lake, one of the Finger Lakes in Central New York, the city had a population of 26,866 at the 2020 census.[3] It is the largest city of Cayuga County, the county seat,[4] and the site of the maximum-security Auburn Correctional Facility, as well as the William H. Seward House Museum and the house of abolitionist Harriet Tubman.
Coffin plates are decorative adornments attached to a coffin that can contain various inscriptions like the name and death date of the deceased or a simple terms of endearment.
They are usually made of a soft metal like lead, pewter, silver, brass, copper or tin. The different metals reflect the different functions of the plates, or the status and wealth of the deceased. For a basic funeral, a simple lead plate would be lettered with the name, date of death and often the age of the departed, and nailed to the lid of a wooden coffin. But high status people could afford a plate of a more expensive metal and elaborate design.[1]
Coffin plates go back at least as far as the 17th century and were reserved for people of wealth. Through the centuries, more people were able to afford the luxury of a coffin plate and with the industrial revolution, by the mid-19th century, the cost of the plates decreased so much that almost every family could afford to have one put on the coffin of their loved ones.
When coffin plates began increasing in popularity, the practice of removing the plates from the coffin before burial became the trend as they were often removed by the loved ones to be kept as mementos of the deceased. This practice peaked in the late 19th century.
In north-west Wales, coffin plates were displayed inside churches. An anonymous visitor to Dolgellau in 1841 noted that \'It is rather curious to see the innumerable coffin plates which are here invariably removed from the coffins and suspended in the church like escutcheons.\' [1] They were also seen in Tywyn, Merionethshire in 1866 [2] and Beddgelert, Carnarvonshire[3] Examples may be seen on the walls of St Beuno\'s, Penmorfa and St Cynhaearn\'s, Ynyscynhaearn, both under the care of the Friends of Friendless Churches.
In the UK and Australia coffin name plates are legally required (whether for burial and cremation) as a means of identifying the deceased.[4]A coffin is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, either for burial or cremation.
Coffins are sometimes referred to as a casket, particularly in American English. Any box in which the dead are buried is a coffin, and while a casket was originally regarded as a box for jewelry, use of the word \"casket\" in this sense began as a euphemism introduced by the undertaker\'s trade.[1] A distinction is commonly drawn between \"coffins\" and \"caskets\", using \"coffin\" to refer to a tapered hexagonal or octagonal (also considered to be anthropoidal in shape) box and \"casket\" to refer to a rectangular box, often with a split lid used for viewing the deceased as seen in the picture.[2] Receptacles for cremated and cremulated human ashes (sometimes called cremains[3][4]) are called urns.