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A Civil War era amputation set, antique and vintage
Halloween decorations and the search for Edgar Allan Poe's first
book.
It's Anatomy of an Appraisal when host Lara Spencer catches up
with the owner of a Civil War era amputation set, appraised at the
Boston ANTIQUES ROADSHOW event in 2001 for $2,000 to $2,500. In a
haunted basement in Salem, Massachusetts, ROADSHOW FYI
correspondent Clay Reynolds has a spirited conversation with Mark
B. Ledenbach, one of the world's foremost collectors of antique and
vintage Halloween decorations; then Clay goes one step beyond at
New York's Hotel Chelsea - reputed to host its share of
non-corporeal guests - for a séance, complete with
conjurer's equipment once owned by Harry Houdini. Fittingly, Edgar
Allan Poe has the last word when expert Ken Gloss reveals that a
copy of Poe's first book - actually a pamphlet-size work entitled
Tamerlane- might still lie buried within an old box of
books, waiting to bring a six-figure fortune to its rescuer.