From Facebook friend Aaron Higgins:
Howdy all! I am inquiring for a friend on a job that is being filmed in California. I was curious if anyone had any idea where I might go about finding an authentic pair of World War I era prosthetic legs?
Any leads are appreciated! Thanks!
Aaron, here’s a possible lead:
https://www.facebook.com/DittrickMuseum?ref=ts
The Dittrick Medical History Center in Cleveland, Ohio, also has links on its website that might be helpful.
http://www.cwru.edu/artsci/dittrick/museum/links.html
Here’s a selection of prosthetic legs from the war era — unfortunately for your friend, this is a contemporaneous photo from the Imperial War Museum and not a source of limbs:
And here’s a photo — one of the saddest photos I have ever seen — of a young fellow who needed a pair of WWI-ear prosthetic legs:
WW1HA 
Suggest contacting the Army Medical Department Museum at Ft. Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas. A contact there would be Sanders Marble at _Sanders.Marble@us.army.mil_ (mailto:Sanders.marble@us.army.mil) LGS
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Every time I meant to type “era,” it came out “ear.”
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Another possibility is the National Museum of Health and Medicine (http://www.medicalmuseum.mil/) which is the result of a fairly recent merger of several of the military’s medical museums and libraries into a single facility/collection. They used to have actual limbs from Civil War amputations, so I anticipate they have a collection of period prosthetics as well.
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