A Unique Carved c.1860 Sandstone Gravestone in the Form of a Latin Cross sub-Antiques An amazing and exquisite piece

An amazing and exquisite piece of invention

The boxes lining is tatty but the pine is probably late nineteenth century and was possibly made for the specific housing of the mask

the skirt overhanging the lower barrel flange terminating in a fluted bonnet and painted in American stars and stripes

Period: Early Twentieth Century

the box being made at the turn of the century

A Unique Carved c.1860 Sandstone Gravestone in the Form of a Latin Cross sub-Antiques An amazing and exquisite pieceOrigin: English Period: Mid Nineteenth Century Provenance: Northwest England Date: c. 1850 70 Height: 39 inches Width 19. 75 inches Depth: 5 inches Weight: 72 KGS The large tombstone or headstone carved in sandstone in the shape of a crux ordinaria (Latin cross) with central shaped recess lozenge showing a monogram for SH and further carved lettering above for R. I. P. (rest in peace), survives from the middle of the nineteenth century. In one piece,