That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for March 16, 2021

Ritter von Bickenbach was so successful that The Antique Road Show came to him.

Scarlet the Maid, in the study, with the vase. I just won at Clue!

Now, would you rather have your coffin draped with this fine cloth or would you rather be cremated in the nice vase that Jessica picked out?

You better decide soon. You don’t have much time!

Jessica didn’t get a thrill out of crime, but she had to urn a living.

This is special, Gospodin Tolstoy. This piece was made during the war!

An elaborate and ornate trophy case, if I ever saw one.

The old men were rather tidy so Jessica was rather happy being their housekeeper. She just wished they better remembered her name. Like when Frederick handed her the vase, saying “you got it maid”. Yes, she has it made.

You, you dirty rat, it’s curtains for you!

Jessica collected antiques. She had picked up the two gentlemen as a matched set at a garage sale.

Aunt Jane didn’t know the body didn’t go in the vase until it was cremated and Uncle Joe figured he’d just throw an old sheet over the old coot.

ZZ Top decides to change up their look.

The Brothers Karamazov go shopping.

Nuthin is more pleasin’ than two geezers, gaily geezin’ in the mor-or-ornin ..

Carl Spielter documents the very first occurrence of: “With each purchase, you get this Grecian Urn.” “What’s a Grecian Urn?”

Frank, Ted and Jen couldn’t afford their own paintings; but then Frank came up with the idea of spitting the cost 3 ways…

The prospect was fiercely resistant/ but the merchant was still more persistent/ and, as you’d have expected/ he did not leave dejected -/ he finally sold his assistant.

“And if you don’t care for any of our shrouds, and prefer cremation, we have a wonderful selection of urns…”

Kaiser Wilhelm patiently waiting for the auctioneer to bring out the helmet with the little spikey thing on top.

A Discerning Collector: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carl_Johann_Spielter_-_A_Discerning_Collector_-_1911.jpg 

has info and links that point to info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. File history has the strip coloration image.

 

https://www.the-athenaeum.org/people/detail.php?ID=7604 

http://www.askart.com/artist/Carl_Johann_Spielter/11131624/Carl_Johann_Spielter.aspx 

both have info, or links that point to more info, about this artist (again, if truncated, the last can be read in full for free on Fridays), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the title URL, which indirectly points to his German Wikipedia page: 

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Johann_Spielter 

and links it points to (again, Google Chrome can automatically translate as necessary). So far, 3 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2021/03/12?comments=visible 

has the prior (my comment there pointed to the same artist info URLs, the first of which may be unresponsive).

 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (⌘- or Ctrl-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2663 (March 15, 2021) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

With his wife burned and urned, Jacob could finally turn his attention to picking out nice, new drapes for his bedroom.

The woman and the vase came as a matched set. But you had to buy the fabric by the bolt.

“Now, this fabric would look fabulous on you at the drag show…”

Living urn-estly.

the undertaker wanted to sell the casket with find lining, but wife, wanted to have him cremated to save money, she even ha a jar she saved from the trash to use.

He will wonder where they all went/ those precious hours he spent/ on the junk he collects/(but never suspects)/ will be his sole monument. (What profiteh a man, that he gain the whole world, but lose his immortal soul ?)

If you aren’t interested in the urn; I do have a second hand shroud. It was last used about 1880 years ago.