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Following is a guest post by Evan Michelson , Morbid Anatomy Library scholar in residence and star of TV's Oddities . Here, she tells the fascinating story of "George's Arms" (seen above), her contribution to our current Collector's Cabinet exhibition , which closes March 29th. You can see Evan speak in person about objects in her collection at our closing party on March 29th, on which more here ; you can also purchase a full color, illustrated exhibition catalog with texts written by the collectors (only eight dollars!) here . Antique and vintage prosthetics are uncanny, beautiful objects. They are almost always anonymous, whatever stories they have to tell being limited (at best) to a name inked or carved into the wood. This particular pair of prosthetic arms, however, comes not just with a name, but with an inspiring tale of survival, courage and human resilience. They belonged to Mr. George Hunlock of Danville, PA, a brakeman for the Delaware, Lackawanna and W...