A suburban animal chiropractor is searching far and wide for a briefcase he sold at a local flea market — and he’s offering to buy it back at 25 times the amount he sold it for.
Dr. Daniel Kamen, retired chiropractor of both humans and animals, said he inadvertently sold the briefcase on July 13 at Wolff’s Flea Market in Rosemont.
He sold the dark brown Samsonite briefcase for just $10, he said, and is offering $250 to buy it back.
Kamen says the briefcase is sentimental to him as it was the surface on which he performed his first dog adjustment in 1980 at the Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa.
“I used it as a table for a small dachshund with a sore lumbar,” Kamen said.
Kamen practiced animal chiropractic medicine from the early ’90s until 2017, including teaching seminars around the country. He adjusted the dachshund to show a student that “anyone could be adjusted,” he said.
“It’s like losing a friend,” Kamen said.
There is “nothing special about” the briefcase, Kamen said. It is “not of value other than to me,” he added.
He described the person who bought the briefcase as a roughly 25-year-old man who wanted to repurpose the briefcase for “some sort of guitar use.”
Kamen said he immediately had sellers’ remorse.
Looking for the briefcase has been like “finding a needle in a haystack,” Kamen said.
He’s tried posting to Facebook, Instagram and TikTok to find the person he sold the briefcase to, but he said he’s recieved no legitimate bites. Roughly 15 to 20 people have reached out to him, Kamen said, but none are able to prove they were the real buyer.
“I have a couple of control questions only the buyer would know,” Kamen said.
Kamen also got permission from the owner of Wolff’s Flea Market to put up a sign advertising his $250 buyback offer, where it will hang until the market’s season ends.
Dr. Kamen adjusting a horse.
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