St. Louis Coffin Company catalogue [no. 22]
No Image
- Leather Bound
- St. Louis, MO: St. Louis Coffin Company, 1911
St. Louis, MO: St. Louis Coffin Company, 1911. First Edition. Leather Bound. Very Good+. First Edition. Leather Bound. St. Louis was once a preeminent manufacturer of shoes and booze, white lead, bricks, and crackers. It was home to a coffin trust, with a hammerlock on the funeral supply business, namely Frederick Gardner and the St. Louis Coffin Company [c.1888-1953.] All production was on-site, and St. Louis Coffin even ran a lumber yard and kilns responsible for producing coffin wood on site.
The showroom catalog contains historic images of the company and pictorial listings for caskets, burial coffins, coffin linings, handles, ornamental plates, embalming supplies, undertakers' sundries, hearses and funeral buggies. Moderate shelf/edgewear, evidence of thumbing, else tight, bright, and unmarred. In limp [faux] textured leather with gilt titling. 8vo. 329pp. Illus. (b/w).
The showroom catalog contains historic images of the company and pictorial listings for caskets, burial coffins, coffin linings, handles, ornamental plates, embalming supplies, undertakers' sundries, hearses and funeral buggies. Moderate shelf/edgewear, evidence of thumbing, else tight, bright, and unmarred. In limp [faux] textured leather with gilt titling. 8vo. 329pp. Illus. (b/w).