coffin plate

Coffin plates go back at least as far as the 17th century and were reserved for people of wealth.

This includes Cromwell's bible, button, coffin plate, death mask and funeral escutcheon.

In the beginning, his shop specialized in coffin plates, gold leaf window lettering, lighted signs and painted advertisements.

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.

Four years later, in 1920, he founded his own sign company: Thomas Young Sign Company, which specialized in coffin plates, gold window lettering, lighted signs and painted advertisements.

Philpott collects a coffin plate from Owen (it's for Linden's funeral, he died in the workhouse); Hunter, in the grip of his calculating/religious madness, cuts his wrists.

Between the vases is a cheerful decoration of preserved coffin plates - five in all, pertaining respectively to Janet's father and mother, a brother, her sister Anne, and a hired man who died here once!

He chatted ostentatiously to his neighbours; he pretended to doodle; he pulled his face into that grin that makes us think of the cold glint of moonlight on a silver coffin plate.

Direct testing of bioarchaeological methods for sexing skeletons by comparing gendered names on coffin plates from the crypt at Christ Church, Spitalfields, London to the associated remains resulted in a 98 percent success rate.

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.

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.

While her death certificate states that she was 42 at the time of her murder (an apparent error reflected on her coffin plate and gravestone), birth records indicate she was 43, a fact confirmed at her inquest by her father, who described her as looking "ten years younger" than her age.