A legendary Toronto prop man’s vast collection is up for sale

There are so many off-the-wall items in Fritz Lev’s collection that on a tour of his shop it’s hard to know where to look. The jar of ears sits over there; the Soviet pilot goggles are stashed on that bookshelf. And look, here are the morgue tables.

The morgue tables?

Lev grinned a mile wide. “Yeah,” he said. On to the next.

Lev owns the Prop Room, a vast, eclectic collection of antique and period objects rented out for movies, TV shows, theatre productions, music videos and more. His items have furnished the sets of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Suits” and “Murdoch Mysteries,” along with hundreds of other productions filmed in the city over the past four decades.

All these items — the antique books, the grandfather clock, the swords and Shakespeare bust and bag of prop joints — could be you