Morticians Cooling Board

Items like this have a very high " give me the creeps" factor that keeps them from selling to anyone but a 'dead'icated collector ;~) This stuff is very difficult to sell at any price in the general antique market. Lovejoy

that is a lovely cooling board...the one i received from my grandmother from Gulrock NC is just a piece of Carolina pine flat with nothing on it except nine lines indicating that at least nine people were place on that board....i believe it was used before the turn of the century for the entire community of Gulrock NC....it is macabre but that is why my grandmother and i loved it....it is like a piece of history of no other kind....i know for a fact that her little sister Delores Mason who i believed died in approx 1919 was also place upon the board....it is a simple board that was placed on ladder back chairs to at first let the dead persons fluids run and be purged from the body then the board was wiped clean and the person was dressed and then presented to the community on the same board before burial....