Elvis Hair For Sale

Are you a fan of Elvis? If you are and -especially- if you love his hair, now you can have it!

A clump of The King’s hair will be put on auction Sunday, October 18, along with photos, clothes and sweat-stained scarves. Those memorabilia were a small part of 200 items collected by the late Gary Pepper, who was the president of the Tankers Fan Club set up for Elvis fans.

Chicago-based Leslie Hindman Auctioneers said the hair was given to Pepper to mail to Presley fans and was believed to be from when the singer had his hair cut to join the U.S. Army. It is expected to sell for between $8,000 and $12,000 at the auction.

As said in a statement released by the auction house, “In 1958, the nation’s newspapers announced that Elvis Presley, having been newly recruited into the U.S. Army, had received two haircuts trimming his famous locks and sideburns down to a greatly modified crew cut. Individual strands of Elvis Presley’s shaved locks have since been treasured by his fans who wish to own a piece of The King himself.”

The auction house has not had a DNA test carried out on the hair but according to another collector who is also “an expert in celebrity hair authentication”, John Reznikoff, it matched the Elvis hair he has in his collection. This is not the first time Elvis’s hair on sale. In 2002, a clump of the late singer’s hair went for $115,000 at auction.

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[ via Yahoo! News ]

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