I went to a auction this last weekend in Arkansas city, Ks. It was the old Scott museum, he had been collecting from the mid 1941's till his death in 2000. The buildings were set up like what life was like around the local area from late 1800's till the 1980's.
He had a great display of several Undertaking business and morturary homes, which all went up for sale. He had the old wooden embalming tables with various medical bottles of fluids and tools used. The two old embalming bottles sold for over $100.00 each. They had about 10 caskets made of wood, galvanized metal, and bamboo looking weaved wood. One of them had a real skeleton which sold for $1900.00. They had casket handles and the funeral magnet flags from maybe 1930 - 1950's, which I bought, also the Ambulance signs for the windows of the car, not sure what year they are, but they are fairly large. I bought a wooden morturary sign that was on the outside of a old wooden business, probably early 1930's or so. They had a cast aluminium Funeral Service sign thats about 36" long. Last was a horse drawn hearse, that had a large wooden cross on the roof, from the late 1880's. It went for about $9000.00.
I haven't been to very many auctions that had this much funeral type stuff, and the prices reflected how rare some of this stuff is. I also bought the diploma from 1880 of the embalmer who owned the funeral home, kinda neat.
Well thats all I have about that.
He had a great display of several Undertaking business and morturary homes, which all went up for sale. He had the old wooden embalming tables with various medical bottles of fluids and tools used. The two old embalming bottles sold for over $100.00 each. They had about 10 caskets made of wood, galvanized metal, and bamboo looking weaved wood. One of them had a real skeleton which sold for $1900.00. They had casket handles and the funeral magnet flags from maybe 1930 - 1950's, which I bought, also the Ambulance signs for the windows of the car, not sure what year they are, but they are fairly large. I bought a wooden morturary sign that was on the outside of a old wooden business, probably early 1930's or so. They had a cast aluminium Funeral Service sign thats about 36" long. Last was a horse drawn hearse, that had a large wooden cross on the roof, from the late 1880's. It went for about $9000.00.
I haven't been to very many auctions that had this much funeral type stuff, and the prices reflected how rare some of this stuff is. I also bought the diploma from 1880 of the embalmer who owned the funeral home, kinda neat.
Well thats all I have about that.
