Specification of Henry Revell Spicer : cases for preserving human remains.

  • Spicer, Henry Revell.
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1863
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Specification of Henry Revell Spicer : cases for preserving human remains. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Patent for a case in which bodies can be displayed at funerals without any risk of contamination from "effluvia, which often escape previous to internment when only wood coffins are employed".

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London : Great Seal Patent Office, 1863 (London : George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode)

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2 pages ; 28 cm

Notes

Cover title.
At head of title: A.D. 1863, 10th April. No. 909.
"Henry Revell Spicer, of no.3, Clement's Lane, Lombard Street, in the city of London, ship broker".

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    Pat. vol. 60
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