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Mobile, Hour 3

Full-Length Season Antiques Roadshow Season 11 Episode 12 52:53 Premiered 20070408

Roadshow examines antique medical devices at the Mobile Medical Museum.

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW host Mark Walberg and appraiser Ken Farmer tour the Mobile Medical Museum, with its antique medical tools and "quack" devices. Highlights include: a highly desirable Confederate army belt buckle; an archive of letters and documents from Franklin Delano Roosevelt bought at an estate sale for $5; and a beautiful circa 1850 Virginia painted chest, estimated to be worth $60,000.

ANTIQUES ROADSHOW host Mark Walberg and appraiser Ken Farmer tour the Mobile Medical Museum, with its antique medical tools and “quack” devices. Highlights include: a highly desirable Confederate army belt buckle; an archive of letters and documents from Franklin Delano Roosevelt bought at an estate sale for $5; and a beautiful circa 1850 Virginia painted chest, estimated to be worth $60,000.