Coffin Works - Drop stamp demonstration
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Coffin Works - Drop stamp demonstration
Image: © Chris Allen Taken: 28 Apr 2018
One of the tour guides is showing how parts of coffin furniture were impressed into sheet metal by dies with one fixed at the bottom and one on the stamp head. In this case it was a raised impression of RIP to attach to coffin handles. The piece was then trimmed off the excess metal on a fly press. The stamp head is falling and is blurred in the low light. The operator is also slightly blurred but it does bring the process to life.
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Image Location
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