Deep within a cavernous antiques arcade on Manhattan's Upper East Side, amid the stalls and shops of 80 other merchants, sits A.R. Broomer Ltd. Its neighbor to one side sells art deco. Its neighbor to the other, chinoiserie. Amanda Broomer deals in items altogether different. It's a store where you don't say, "Lend me a hand," unless you really mean it.
Broomer sells the skulls of martyrs ($4,500 each). She sells the teeth of saints ($300). For $975 you can get what may be a tiny splinter from the cross upon which Jesus Christ was crucified. It takes a certain amount of blind faith to believe all the claims attached to religious artifacts.
