GUEST: Well, my husband's great-grandfather was a pioneer physician, and I live in the house that he built in 1853, and his implements and things that he used in his pioneer physician days are in my possession now. He made the rounds with these saddlebags and delivered babies. This is an OB kit, which frightens me. I always said I wanna hold my legs together when I see that.
APPRAISER: So he did a little bit of everything.
GUEST: Oh yes, oh, he just, yeah.
APPRAISER: Country doctor had to know just about everything.
GUEST: Absolutely.
APPRAISER: And so he also did some dental work, too?
GUEST: Yes, he did. He pulled teeth, and I don't know why, but he kept the teeth. I keep them in my kitchen. I think it's an appropriate place to keep them.
APPRAISER: Absolutely, where else would you put them?
GUEST: (laughing) That's right.
APPRAISER: It's really like a snapshot of what a doctor would have in the field back in the 19th century. What we see here is that, with the wooden handle, that's before we understood bacteria.
GUEST: Yes.
APPRAISER: And so that was later replaced, it became all stainless steel. So we see that that's probably circa 1850s, 1860s. And then the saddlebag, which would have some medicines in it that he would carry around, again, right around that kind of mid-19th-century timeframe. And the picture shows the Dr. Arnold, and then who are the other folks in the picture?
GUEST: They're the two other Dr. Arnolds.
APPRAISER: So it's a family of doctors.
GUEST: It's a, three, three generations there.
APPRAISER: To the right collector, retail value, adding everything up, I think we have at least $1,000 worth of items here, so...
GUEST: Really.
