Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1920 — Black Caskets Now Reported Out of Style [ARTICLE]

Black Caskets Now Reported Out of Style

San Francisco. —To be buried in a black coflin isn’t stylish. Pale pink, cerise, old rose, blue, lavender, purple and white —these colors are most in demand nowadays, says W. H. Vincent, casket manufacturer here for 30 years. Not more than one person in twenty pre-, fers the somber black, according to Vincent v “Sometimes 1 we get an order for a striped coffin, or a green one,” Vincent asserted. “The color usually is in accordance with the last wish of the deceased.” Almost every variety of coffin now sells for five times the price of a few years ago, Vincent said. The strictly modern hermetically sealed bronze casket brings $2,000 wholesale. Vincent has a caller now and then who choses his own coffin. “Usually it is an old man who thinks his relatives won’t properly look after his burial,” said Vincent.