✅ SOLVED Mystery Coffin

[WILTON]

On the lid above the cross the word REPOSE appears. Above that is a circle with the letters, CR in the circle. It is not magnetic. In the foot of the coffin is a spring loaded plunger with a hole in the center that exposes a sharp spike when depressed. There is no access to the spike and plunger from the inside of the coffin body. I don't believe it is a snuff box, vesta case, reliquary, or cigar tool. The best suggestion so far was that it might have been used to make sure you are dead before burial. That fits the death theme. The spike could be used to get a reaction by pricking a finger tip and the coffin might have contained something similar to smelling salts. But that was just a best guess. It was kept/found with items from the Civil War era.

 

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[villagenut]

Seems that it was humorous during the 1800s to joke around using such things as death as its subject. Check out this link for the history possibly behind the pin prick. Cool find!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/96420444/whimsical-coffin-box

 

[digging440yrs]

Bloodletting comes to mind, odd - but cool find-----i think villagenut has it

 

[WILTON]

Seems that it was humorous during the 1800s to joke around using such things as death as its subject. Check out this link for the history possibly behind the pin prick. Cool find!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/96420444/whimsical-coffin-box

That was actually a guess (just a guess) from someone that thought it could be a prank item. Of course I dismissed the guess, but I guess I pranked myself! I wonder how long that item has been for sale on etsy? I have only seen one other like mine online and the speculation was wild to say the least. I missed the etsy listing. Thank you.

 

[deepsecrets]

Great ID on this Villagenut - wow!!

 

[TheHappyCanadian]

Seems that it was humorous during the 1800s to joke around using such things as death as its subject. Check out this link for the history possibly behind the pin prick. Cool find!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/96420444/whimsical-coffin-box

"When a victim is instructed to press the button on the foot of the coffin to make the skeleton shake, he or she will be instead treated to a pin prick on the finger."

lol classic. Like asking someone to smell the flower on your lapel then punching them in the dick