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THEY HAVE BROUGHT -- A
HIGHBROW COUSIN WHO HAS MOVED
TO CHICAGO IN A BIG WAY.
HOME TO THE LARGEST
COLLECTION OF PREMIER MEAT
SLICERS. Reporter: PRECISELY
CUT MEAT PUTS THE RESTAURANT ON
THE MAP.
THE CHEF HAS FOUR VINTAGE
MODELS SITTING ON THE SHELF.
TO GET THESE REFURBISHED,
IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE.
Reporter: PURPLE WAS THE
CADILLAC OF THE MEAT SLICERS.
NOW ARCHITECTURAL ARTIFACTS HAS
MEAT SLICERS DATING BACK TO THE
1890S.
A DUTCH BIRCHER -- BUTCHER
INVENTED THE SLICERS.
THE PLATE CUTS THROUGH MEAT
WHICH IS SHARP RIGHT A CIRCULAR
STONE.
THEY OFTEN SET UP TOP INTRICATE
PEDESTALS.
THEY WERE MADE IN ROTTERDAM AND
FOR A TIME WERE FREAKED -- WERE
HANDCRAFTED IN INDIANA.
THEY HAVE BEEN REFURBISHED,
PAINTED AND POLISHED AND MAY
SELL THE TWEEN $50,000 AND
$80,000.
IT'S A LONG STORY HOW I GOT
THESE. Reporter: HE BOUGHT
ONE AT THE BROCKEL MUSEUM IN
PARMA, ITALY.
WHEN A WELL-KNOWN ITALIAN
BUTCHER MADE A CONFESSION.>
HE TOLD US HE WAS DYING OF
CANCER AND WHAT I LIKED BY ALL
OF THE MACHINES? Reporter: IT
HAS BECOME A KAYLA -- A CUTTING-
EDGE COLLECTOR'S ITEM.
NOW PAOLO, THE KING OF THE
BURKLE HAD QUITE A REAR.
HE WOULD FLY TO RACING EVENTS
TO SLICED THEIR LUNCH MEAT JUST