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RECORDS. 



Jan.. 1915. 



Fis. 22. 



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matter much more systematically and exhaus- 

 tively. 



A usual device placed on head-stones 

 during the seventeenth and early portion of 

 the eighteenth centuries was the 

 Angel of Death. This appeared 

 in various forms. A common one 

 was a winged skull surmounted 

 by an hour-glass which was oft- 

 en much conventionalized, fig. 3, 

 page o*d: or may he crowned, fig. 

 5. page 59. The crown may be 

 conventionalized, fig 7. page 61; 

 or is sometimes replaced by cross- 

 bones, fig 20. A rather singular 

 departure from the usual form 

 was found by Mrs. Nellie A. Clapp 

 at Duxbury. Mass.. where the 

 skull was not only crowned by a 

 conventionalized hour-glass, but 

 this had a pair of cross-bones on ' 

 each side of it: the entire combination being 

 quite unique. 



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