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And Finally
Elvis’ hair fails to sell
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 26 February 2010
Can it really be true that no one wants to own Elvis’ hair? Is that the kind of world we live in now? Apparently it is. A strand of The King’s hair has failed to sell at auction in Gloucestershire.
The hair’s current owner reportedly bought it “on a whim” in a TV auction. It comes mounted on a gold disc, which bears the inscription “The King’s Authentic Hair” (to stop it being confused with a hair from a wig or pet owned by The King, presumably). It was expected to fetch up to £600, which would have been a pretty good haul, considering a whole clump of the stuff only raised around £10,000 at an auction in Chicago last October.
A spokesman for auction house Chorleys told Metro: “These more fun items are not doing as well in the current market as the more serious antiques. It’s just one of those things”.
