I guess anything can sell at an auction

Saw a first for me today. A casket for sale at an auction. At least it was new and unused...

ooohh, i woulda bought t if it was cheap enough. i always wantd to build a copy of grandpa munsters drag-u-la race car from the munsters.

I bet folks were dieing to get that. (pun intented LOL )

I've seen old false teeth sell at a couple of estate auctions.
Zach

Glad they got to feeling better.

About 40 years ago I had a "new", unused, childs Casket made by the Goldfield (Nevada) Casket Co. , that was made back in the early 1920's . Made some pretty decent money selling it as an antique. It's amazing what some people will buy. LOL

Doc :>)

If you can find a fool you can sell anything not just auction.

Here how about this one.
Black friday

The elderly Catholic Priest in our community has already purchased his coffin, and has it prominently displayed in the living room of the parsonage, serving duty as a big coffee table. It looks exactly like the hand made ones you see in the old western movies.

I'm thinking of having an Amish casket maker build one for me. Always looking for good value so why stop now!

I drove by a garage sale a few years ago and saw a small casket there for sale. I just had to turn around and go back. It turns out the fellow used to make hand made caskets and this one was unsold. Simple explanation but not something you see everyday at a garage sale.

Do not know what the casket sold for but I would be willing to bet it was the best money saving deal at the auction.
Never could understand spending thousands of dollars on something that is gona rot and then be thrown away in the garbage.

Question? The man that built it didn't want it.
The man that bought it didn't need it.
The man who used it didn't know it.
What is it?

Coffin at auction- how much did it go for? I made my own simple pine box a couple years back for about $100.00 in materials from Menards, about a month to build at weekends a couple hours at a time with hand tools, some minor parts chasing. Older Brother has it in garage now in case of need- might have saved $500.00 for a younger brothers funeral if the other brother handling the funeral arrangements had known it was close by. Does stop the insurance salesman when they start the pitch with 'are you ready to die, be buried, funeral expenses?' and I answer Yes, coffin is made and ready. RN

Years ago another guy and I were doing an ongoing telephone repair for some funeral homes that were tied together that every morning at 4:50 AM, the systems would go down, not recover, customer would show up, phones would be down at multiple funeral homes. The owner gave us the keys to their funeral homes, we'd get there about 4:30, hook up test equipment, monitor, clockwork 4:50, down they'd go.

I'm at the main funeral home, three loads back and forth to my truck to drag my test equipment in. They had a body in a bag on a gurney that they had picked up not real long before I got there and I had to squeeze between it and a wall to get to the telephone equipment. Each time I squeezed my way in, I looked down trying to figure out which end was the head, and feet. No biggie, I get around the corner, hook my gear up to catch the events and start hearing banging around the corner. It's about 4:45 AM and there was no one there in the garage but me and a bagged corpse, and now there's banging around the corner by the corpse. Oh crap. I look around the corner and see someone moving on the other side of one of the hearses in the dimly lit garage, so I yell "Hey you". This guy pops his head up and looks around, drops stuff and runs out the door and is gone. Was the flower guy making a delivery. He scared me, I really scared him. 4:50 comes, equipment goes down, but I see the problem coming from the far end, not my side so I tell the guy that I'm working with at a funeral home about 20 miles away that I'd meet him at his end the next day and see if we can't catch it there. It took me three trips carrying test gear past that corpse on the gurney on the way in, one trip out. I didn't want to go past that bag more than once leaving.

Next morning I meet the other guy at his end, we setup, clockwork at 4:50, down it drops but isn't the equipment. Its the circuit between us. We get the equipment back up and he goes his way to check phones, I go mine. I'm down in the basement in a room where they drain the body fluids and there's a phone in it that works, but there's also an open coffin on a stand and I get this idea. I know that if I don't go upstairs that sooner or later he's going to come downstairs looking for me. I figure that I'm going to play a joke on him, hop up into the coffin, pull the lid down and wait until I hear him come into the room looking for me, then I was going to knock on the lid and ask, "Hello, is there someone there? Where am I? Can someone let me out of here?", and so one. Problem was that every time I tried to hop up into the coffin, the stand moved on its casters. I'm trying to hop up into the coffin and its moving around the room and finally he rounds the corner and catches me, so I fessed up. I don't know much about coffins but started to think, what if I did make it in, pulled the lid shut and it locked. What then? By then he and I were getting to know the folks at the funeral homes pretty good, so I was telling one of the ladies that worked there, a mortician and quite a hottie what I tried and how the coffin kept scooting away from me, so I couldn't get in it. She wasn't mad, but she did tell me that was a $20,000 coffin and its a good thing that I didn't knock it off of the stand and break it.

Mark

Walmart online will deliver you a casket less than 9 hours after ordering. There are several discount casket outlets online and all prices.

The Albert City Threshing show has a child's coffin in the Thieman display. Thieman must have made a few coffins but his one is the only Thieman coffin I've heard of. I've always entertained the thought of making my own coffin but the thought will probably outlive me. Marilyn tells me I will NOT be cremated so I guess there is a coffin somewhere in my future.

Installed a large redwood playground for a hospital, got it all built, etc., and they asked me to hang the banner on the side of the hospital 2nd floor. Said sure no problem how to I get up there. They led me up, opened a set of big double doors, said Dont' mind all the stainless steel caskets, this is just the teaching/autopsy/pathology room.... sorry, I couldn't even go through the doors. Still gives me both the heebies and the jeebies.

Question? The man that built it didn't want it.
The man that bought it didn't need it.
The man who used it didn't know it.
What is it?

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I had a lodge brother that was a WW1 vet. He kept a coffin in his living room, with a nice indian rug over it. He was prepared. He lived to be 99.

That's funny . I read when George Barris went to build the Dragula [coffin ] car no mortician was allowed to sell a coffin unless used for deceased . They were memebers of a guild that would not sell a coffin to the public. George had a heck of a time finding someone to sell him one.

Dammit Mark,What was the PROBLEM??????????????????

For those that asked, the coffin sold for $550. It was an ugly blue-green color, but then if you're the user that wouldn't really matter anyway.

Was a 64K circuit between point A (AT&T) and point B (Verizon). It went through a Verizon SLCK-96 down the road by an airport and at 4:50 every morning, the power switched to generator for whatever reason, and then back to Edison. During that switch over, the SLCK would drop momentarily and then come back up. Most people out that rural were asleep and never noticed it. During that brief outage, our customers remote would drop and not recover. They'd open the funeral home in the morning, no phones. It took a while to get it fixed because it took a while for us at AT&T to get approval for our overtime, and then since it involved Verizon, it took longer because they then had to approve OT based upon a request from a competitor. Management never move smoothly. If it was left between us techs...

Mark

This goes back to the late '70's or early '80's. A bad guy on Chicago's south side, Willie "Fluky" Stokes had his own son, Willie Jr. (The Wimp) whacked for being too flamboyant and going through Dad's money and tossing Dad's name around and so on. Dad had his son murdered, and sent him out in a dudded up like a pimp in a coffin made up to resemble a Cadillac Seville. The picture of The Wimp propped up in the coffin made national news. Stevie Ray Vaughn did a song based upon the whole thing, "Willie The Wimp".

The late Stevie Ray Vaughn performing "Willie The Wimp"... www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJARNLjHm3Q
Actual news picture of The Wimp in his Cadillac coffin