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   Autopsy tools used on Elvis to go up for auction   
   Items include forceps, toe tag, aneurysm hooks and more are expected   
   sell for up to $8,000   
   By Daniel Lippman   
   Reuters   
   NEW YORK - Autopsy tools used to embalm and prepare Elvis Presley's body   
   for his funeral in 1977 and a toe tag used on the singer for   
   identification purposes are set to go under the hammer at a Chicago   
   auction house.   
   The instruments up for sale at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers on Aug. 12   
   include rubber gloves, forceps, lip brushes, a comb and eye liner,   
   needle injectors, an arterial tube and aneurysm hooks, all of which the   
   auction house say were used only once.   
   The collection, saved for years by a senior embalmer at the Memphis   
   Funeral Home who wishes to stay anonymous, also includes a toe tag   
   marked "John Doe" which was used as a replacement after the original was   
   stolen by a fan during chaos at the hospital.   
   "The mortician, who prepared the body, retained this tag and the   
   instruments, along with the preparation room case report, the case   
   sheet, dry cleaning tags, the hanger to the singer's suit and tie and   
   the coffin shipping invoice, which are marked "Elvis Presley," said Mary   
   Williams, a spokeswoman for Leslie Hindman Auctioneers.   
   The items will be sold in two lots, and the auction house estimated the   
   lots will sell at between $6,000 to $8,000 and $4,000 to $6,000,   
   respectively.   
   Williams admitted the auction may be controversial as some people "are   
   going to be disappointed" by the sale of these items but Elvis   
   memorabilia was always in strong demand with a lock of his hair selling   
   for $18,300 at an auction last year.   
   "It's really about owning a piece of the celebrity themselves ... and   
   how much closer can you get than the actual embalming instruments,"   
   Williams told Reuters.   
   Elvis died from heart problems after taking a cocktail of prescription   
   drugs on Aug. 16, 1977, at the age of 42 but he continues to be one of   
   the top earning dead celebrities, bringing in $55 million in 2009   
   according to Forbes.com.   
   Copyright 2010 Reuters. Click for restrictions.   
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