Beware body snatchers! Beware Grave Robbers! Behold, the Fisk Metallic Burial Case!
Posted by Cunningb2 | Posted in Fisk's Caskets , Undertaker | Posted on August 31, 2020
Great post at Brownstone Detectives about the Brooklyn proprietor of Fisk caskets :
Beware BODY SNATCHERS! Beware GRAVE ROBBERS! BEHOLD, the Fisk Metallic Burial Case!
F.A. MORREL, Undertaker and distributor, 57 Myrtle
In 1852, a Brooklyn Heights “sexton and general undertaker” by the name of F. A. Morrel, practicing at his “coffin-wareroom” at No. 57 Myrtle Avenue, was promoting to the Brooklyn public the latest design in funerary offerings – the Fisk Metallic Burial Case.
