Name: Pawn Stars: CHUM CUTS A DEAL FOR AMPUTATION SAW (Season 8) | History
Uploaded: 2020-03-19T19:30:36.000Z
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This was a Civil War metacarpal amputation saw.

This would cut off fingers during the Civil War.

I got it from a collector whose great-grandfather

I've been studying these things for years,

And when this would strike one of our unfortunate soldiers,

And you couldn't set a comminuted fracture.

And unfortunately, the doctor on the field

OK, so this must have strictly been for fingers, then,

because I can't imagine sawing someone's wrist off,

DAHLIA: Yeah, looking at something like this,

it just kind of reminds you how archaic medicine was

and why we are so grateful for the advances that we have now.

I think if you were on the Civil War battlefield,

and you got shot in the hand, and a doctor

And how much are you looking to get out of it?

Something like this, if this was used in the Civil War,

I would probably want to sell it for somewhere around $400.

And Rick's not here right now or I'd go get him.

DAHLIA: I'd hate for you to pass on this.

Do you have anybody that you think we could call

The fact was we used a lot of medical saws in the Civil War.

The problem that I see you-- have a Mini ball here,

The problem also was that it was soft lead.

If this hit you and it took out a chunk of your bone,

Because amputation surgery was such a noted part of Civil War

So you think that this saw could have saved

and it's also so highly serrated it kind of almost

To tell you the truth, I do not think this

The saws always had handles that were easily gripped.

Now, you would often have a finger hole on it

so that when you would hold on to the saw

it would not slip in your hand, because you were moving fast.

It would be very hard to hang on to that.

You know, so-- and one of the things they also did is you

wanted a saw that had very sharp but small teeth,

because what you didn't want to do is shatter the bone anymore.

To tell you the truth, I think what you have here is a child's

I thought I knew a lot about Civil War bone saws.

But knowing that it wasn't, I'd have to do a lot more research.

You can imagine a little boy getting his first tool

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