2020-03-102020-03-101984https://dc.statelibrary.sc.gov/handle/10827/33113The purpose of this paper is to begin, in an orderly and logical fashion. the study of coffin hardware. This discussion should be of use to bio-archaeologists who are involved in burial or cemetery removal projects. This work was born of the fortuitous discovery of a large "cache" of late nineteenth and early twentieth century coffin hardware at the store of A.L. Calhoun, Jr. in Clio, South Carolina.application/pdfDocumentCopyright 2001. For more information contact, South Carolina State Library, 1500 Senate Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29201.Coffins--Equipment and supplies--History--20th centuryCoffin hardware--South CarolinaMarlboro County (S.C.)--AntiquitiesText