Authenticity questioned on Elvis Presley autopsy tools

The authenticity of tools used in Elvis Presley’s autopsy and the remaining  items have been withdrawn from a Chicago auction.

Funeral Home president E.C. Daves told The Commercial newspaper in Tennessee that “there’s no way to tell whether the items being offered for sale through Leslie Hindman Auctioneers are authentic”.

Daves says “a retired embalmer claims he took the items after Presley’s embalming Aug. 16, 1977. But another employee told him the equipment was sterilized and used again”.

The objects included rubber gloves, forceps, a comb, a toe tag and an eye liner. They were to be auction in two sets valued at eight thousand dollars.

Earlier in 2009, a clump of hair was believed to have been trimmed from Elvis Presley’s head has sold for fifteen thousand dollars at a Chicago auction houseand amongst the 200 Elvis-related stuff, up for grabs at the Leslie Hindman Auctioneers in Chicago was a shirt that once belonged to the Pop King which sold for fifty two thousand dollars

The person who bought the hair paid fifteen thousand dollars plus an additional $3,300 in public sale house fees.

Other stuff on offer had carves, photos from the reception of Presley’s 1967 wedding with Priscilla, Elvis dolls and Elvis Pez dispensers.

All the things had belonged to the late Gary Pepper, who ran a fan club and was a companion and, died in 1980.

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