Netflix is streaming the complete two seasons of Oddities, the Discovery series on curious and creepy antique dealers Mike Zone, Evan Michelson and Ryan Matthew, master bone articulator. The three ghouls are the Pawn Stars of the Dead and American Pickers of the Body Farm. Twenty episodes in a row, a binge viewing totally unlike me, has left my mind with an odd and curious feeling of morbidity and mortality. So the funeral card here is shared.
Hopefully, the popularity of Oddities will help the antiques business. Everyone needs a hobby after all, and in these digital days a few actual physical objects on the shelves would be nice.
Cabinet Card circa 1900? Reed Studio MA. Collection Jim Linderman
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...you know "ouf" in French, is slang for "crazy" or "nutty", I like to think this a family remember their "kookie" pal....
ReplyDeleteThe Order of United Friends was founded in 1881 due to a schism in the Order of Chosen Friends. It was one of those Masonic type organizations which also served the purpose of providing limited death other benefits in lieu of standard insurance. The best known (probably) example is the Woodmen of the World, whose log shaped headstones litter cemeteries of a certain vintage throughout the US. At one time, there were as many as 20,000 members.
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