Love a mystery and also an interesting story... Had to read it twice.. Hemmmmm...Okay.. let me play Sherlock Holmes a bit.. LOL..
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Seems to me, he had someone that cared enough for him to see his request carried through ..Maybe some workers that he once befriended..from his soap or Tallow making company.. ? Bankrupted or not, he probably was a likeable man.. and being down and out.. doesn't mean someone didn't care... obviously they did...to send him off and with identity..
Since he was a Tallow dealer..and tallow was extracted by melting the meats of animals for candles, etc.. maybe this cylinder was a troth for the animals that were slaughtered for their fat..??? Maybe, he knew it would preserve his body the wax that melted around the cylinder mummifying him.... ?? A cylinder..being able to withstand the climates and distruction.. Metal...
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All, of course, speculation ....
The cylinder being lodged in the old building..well, Maybe, it was going to its last burial place.. and got lost in the shovel of the blitz.. and it was a holding area ..Anyway.. Those our my Sherlock Holmes thoughts.. anyone else.....
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