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« on: July 22, 2014, 08:50:54 am »
I just got an email from a morbid antique place in Ontario Canada. Here is what it said.
Cabinet of Curiosities
To Me
Today at 10:31 AM
Hi Christopher, interesting find. In my experience there aren't any laws stating you can't sell a tombstone assuming they haven't actually been removed from a grave. If discovered in a house barn or field, essentially they were just signage and nothing directly tied legally to a body. Often there were misprints or damaged stones during production.
It was not uncommon in the 19th century or earlier that a family would up and move the entire clan a great distance in many cases they would dig up the family members from a family cemetary and take them with them and take the stones as well.
What you may have is someone moved from a great distance and took at least the gravemarkers with them. Or as the owners of the home said, there used to be a small graveyard on the property in which case records if there were any may have been lost.
In any case, in my "opinion" you're free and clear to sell them. The trick is finding a buyer... most people find them creepy even haunted... everyone finds them heavy. It's an acquired taste for certain.
Where are you located? Are you in New York State?
Cheers
Mark
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