Coffin

Coffin with slightly arched (cupped) lid, legs of shaped wooden cloths. On the short sides are metal handles, on one long side two metal hinges (iron) with elongated brackets that descend on the side of the coffin, on the opposite long side is on the middle at the top a partially yellow painted buckle with keyhole. Key is missing. On the top of the lid along the long sides, the “gutters,” some mm deep, as decoration. Outwardly, the coffin is painted in Bohuslänan rose painting. In mirrors with a blue bottom are found on the lid and front floral patterns in red, yellow, white, dark green. On the short sides undecorated mirrors. The blue mirrors are (outside narrow lines of yellow and red, on the short sides only yellow) framed by fields in reddish brown (English red) with a little black pattern. Back completely in a reddish brown. Top along all edges blue painted stripes. On the front, BRD 1848 painted with white and red. (The letters have snireless ends.) A rectangular compartment, the outer face of which is painted in dark green. Incidentally unpainted inside. Machine holes. The painting worn on the lid. In the coffin, when it came to the museum, parts of Gothenburg Posten 20 Nov 1943, --- and a headscarf inmarked UM026868. According to the donors, the headscarf has served as a canvas over the coffin.