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Specification of Henry Revell Spicer : cases for preserving human remains.
- Spicer, Henry Revell.
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- 1863
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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".
Publication/Creation
London : Great Seal Patent Office, 1863 (London : George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode)
Physical description
2 pages ; 28 cm
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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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- English
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