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Improved Burial Case with Tombstone

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Improved Burial Case with Tombstone
Inventor F Yester
Patent #81,437
Issued August 25, 1868

Patent Abstract

The nature of this invention consists in placing on the lid of the coffin, and directly over the face of the body laid therein, a square tubes leading to a tombstone.

Fig 4. a longitudinal and vertical section

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