1930s Undertakers Supply Co Glass Embalming Jar Most funeral homes pride themselves

Most funeral homes pride themselves on being respectful

Materials: Rattan

The ends of the filigree show signs of repair

This amazing piece of mortuary history would make a lovely vase or keepsake jar

whist -- as well as its latter forms

1930s Undertakers Supply Co Glass Embalming Jar Most funeral homes pride themselvesIn the mid nineteenth century funeral services started to modernize and become more specialized. The profession of undertaker emerged, bodies were no longer prepared at home but relegated to professional morticians. Nowhere was this more evident than in Chicago. The Chicago Undertaker's association formed in 1868 and later the Illinois School of Embalming. Many other mortuary schools, funeral service training programs and funeral related associations