WWW: Expensive Old Hair

In this edition of Weird World Wednesday, I submit to you an excerpt from a Forbes article titled Elvis' hair sells for $15K at Chicago auction:
A clump of hair believed to have been trimmed from Elvis Presley's head when he joined the Army in 1958 has sold for $15,000 at a Chicago auction house.

Also among the 200 Elvis-related items up for grabs at the Leslie Hindman Auctioneers in Chicago on Sunday was a shirt that once belonged to the King which sold for $52,000.

The buyer of the hair paid $15,000 plus an additional $3,300 in auction house fees.
In the words of a cliche it seems that some folks have more money than sense.. and don't you think that hair is pretty gross? Wonder what the shirt looked like?

2 comments:

  1. It doesn't make sense to me to buy the hair (or the shirt) even if I could prove that it was Elvis' hair, which, I heard, has not been done.

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