In case you are an Elvis collector with a strong stomach, we have a great deal for you: the embalmer who prepared Elvis Presley’s body following his death 32 years ago is now auctioning off the tools used on the King of Rock n’ Roll’s corpse.
The undisclosed mortician was employed at the Memphis Funeral Home, where Elvis’ body was taken after his death on August 16, 1977. The embalmer saved several items used to prepare the corpse and will be up for sell during a public auction in The Windy City next month.
These items up for auction include forceps, rubber gloves, comb, needle injectors, eye liner, aneurysm hook and arterial tube. The items were used only once, to embalm Elvis’ body, put on makeup to his face and to dye his hair jet-black.
All the instruments used in the autopsy of Elvis will be auctioned by Leslie Hindman Auctioneers on August 12.
Update: The autopsy tools have been removed from the auction.
“Due to questions of ownership, the retired embalmer and his son have decided to turn over the property to the Memphis Funeral Home and its parent company, Service Corporation International, with the intention of donation,” Williams said in a statement.
But you can still buy Elvis Graceland home from 1957 to 1969.
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