A lock of Elvis Presley’s hair has been sold to a mystery buyer for $15,000 (£9,200) at an auction in Chicago.
The clump is believed to have been cut from The King’s head when he joined the US army in 1958.
It is one of 200 items of memorabilia which have gone under the hammer this weekend at Chicago’s Leslie Hindman auctioneers.
The pieces were from the personal collection of the late Gary Pepper who ran an Elvis Presley fan club and became a friend of the singer.
One of the priciest items to be sold was a white cotton shirt with EP monogrammed on the chest which went for $52,000 (£31,827).
I have just been staying in a flat in Chelsea. There was very little evidence of the previous owners.
1. Dust in hoover bag
2. Tea stain on duvet
3. Smear on carpet
4. Sticker on a knife holder
5. Pencil height mark on the wall
6. Black Dockers tee-shirt in the top of the wardrobe cupboard.
From: Melissa Kittl
Sent: Mon 12/10/2009 13:21
To: North Cluster Academic
Subject: Missing Cup
Hi all,
My cup is missing, its like a soup cup, and it says on the side about Quitting eating Chocolate, if you have it, please could you return it to me.
Thanks
Melissa Kittl
Poor Pat the Cook was accused of stealing my grandmother’s ring: a large rainbow opal with chips of refracted sunlight reined in with a tight gold band: an electric jelly.
Missing too was a charm bracelet which I had hoped to inherit. it had disks with all of the grandchildren on including the dead one and the one that changed it’s name. Mine was ornate and different from the others. I didn’t like it it was like my extra middle name and my Edwardian colouring-too Rococo and an indication I was a cuckoo.
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I looked at the jellied range of opals on Sarah’s hand and asked her about her ring. It was not her original wedding ring, that had been stolen by a little girl at a birthday party and brought back two weeks later. Sarah had claimed on the insurance , who then told her to send her wedding ring back-ridiculous we all thought! and so she bought it off them.
She still had it she thought, a tiny engraved gold band with a single jellytot gem. No-that was the first engagement ring that her husband had proposed with to another girl. He was 17 when he proposed. Now in his fifities he is still embarrassed at the mention of the other ring.
