>I am familiar with metal coffins with glass plates or windows over the face, >which seem to have been popular ca. 1860-1880, but has anyone encountered >similar windows associated with wooden coffins? > Many years ago I salvaged three coffins from a construction site. The excavation conditions were less than ideal but one coffin definitely had a glass plate over the face. The burial appeared to date to the turn of the century ( I can't find the article this morning). The site is located in Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada. The reference is Finnigan, J.T. 1981 St. Barnabas Burials: Salvage Excavations at a Late 19th Century Cemetery. Na'pao, 11:41-48. Napao was published by the anthropology and archaeology department at the university of Saskatchewan. Jim Finnigan Western Heritage Services Inc. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (306) 975-3860 http://www.westernheritage.ca