Tim-

Check out "A Preliminary Seriation of Coffin Hardware Forms in Nineteenth
and Twentieth Century Georgia" that I published in 1987 in Volume 15,
Numbers 1 and 2 of Early Georgia, It is still available through the Society
for Georgia Archaeology.

Pat Garrow


> [Original Message]
> From: Tim Thompson <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 1/18/2006 5:41:20 PM
> Subject: Grave furniture
>
> Does anyone have any good references on coffin hardware? I'm looking 
> specifically for info on thumbscrews used to secure coffin lids. Thanks
for 
> any help.
>
> Tim Thompson