Doesn't this sound  like a great topic for a single book in which the  
author ties together the studies of coffin hardware from various  
regions?

Authors wanted!  Contact me or Carolyn White ([log in to unmask]) if you  
think you might be interested.

American Artifacts Series
http://www.lcoastpress.com/wst_page7.html

Cheers,
Tim Scarlett


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Patrick Garrow <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: January 19, 2006 8:17:16 AM EST
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Grave furniture
> Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
>
> 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