Out of sight, with a hammer - out! (Photo + 6 letters)

A few days ago at an auction in Chicago for 15 thousand US petro-dollars was sold a piece of Elvis Presley's hair.

Slightly more expensive shirt out, but wedding photography King of Pop only $ 4000. Just think, save on subscription to a fitness club, to give up expensive clothes, do not go to restaurants ... and now you are the owner of the photos of Elvis!
It is assumed that the lock of hair was closely cropped head Presley in 1958 before sending it to the military. All of these things at one time belonged to a friend of the singer Gary Pepper, who was the head of the fan club Presley. Before his death in 1980 he bequeathed them to his nurse, but the crisis reached governesses, and she decided to sell the precious curl. Interestingly, a nurse, the hour, not the brunette?

If you are not aware of, or slept in a lethargic sleep last 50 years of commercials for you hot news: now you can buy and sell everything! The main thing is not that the main thing with any backgrounds. Where? As usual, on ebay - Vanity Fair and the vast sea of ​​human stuff for every taste.

You the five most absurd (or brilliant - it's as you like) deals at auctions



Lot №1. British grandmother.

Price: 20 000 pounds

Transaction: ebay site administration thwarted because of the ban on sales people.

Once tridesyatom Kingdom in the United Kingdom, whiling away their free online time from school, 10-year-old Zoe Pemberton flirt auctioned his grandmother. Product description was that great grandmother crossword puzzles, but constantly whines and terribly annoying. When the girl's parents spotted surprised, she said she just wanted to make a joke. But in the Soviet Union there were children in the clubs! And not joking, they were!



Lot №2. Used handkerchief Scarlett Johansson.

Price: 2205 $

Transaction: held in 2008

As reported by the Associated Press, the actress has auctioned a paper handkerchief which has twice (!) Used for other purposes on the evening TV show. As it turned out, the infection also are stellar. And in order to become a star, it is imperative to seize the handkerchief with the virus, which is transmitted by Samuel L. Jackson - very Scarlett. The money, according to celebrity, went to the fight against hunger. I think in any decent restaurant in Los Angeles can be a success to fight hunger during these two thousand
Scarlett at all a fan of ebay, she just has not sold under the hammer - a date with tickets to the premiere of his film, T-shirt with his autograph ... Oh, what the child played!



Lot №3. Lost letter in the name of Barbra Streisand.

Price: 8750 $

Transaction: the letter "A", made of wood, sold for charitable purposes.

Sometime in the distant past Sweet simpleton Barbara ran through many a casting and wiretapping, and getting there failures. But one day her luck and took the future star to sing a gay bar. Then, in 1960, at the bar of Manhattan's Greenwich Village, the letter came under reductions in order to make the name more distinctive Streisand. Can I also remove one letter? Hmm ... but what?



Lot №4. Place in uspypalnitse next to Marilyn Monroe.

Price: 4, 6 million $

Transaction: started with a mark of $ 500,000, took place in August 2009

Dark, dark night, California August 5, 1962 in Brentwood at the age of 36 under mysterious circumstances from a lethal dose of sleeping pills die sex symbol Marilyn Monroe all mankind. "Spend eternity directly above Marilyn Monroe," - said in the description of a lot of 80-year-old widow, Elsie Poncher, hoping to make good, to cover the debts of his home in Beverly Hills.
This cemetery history began in 1954, when the ex-husband of Marilyn - baseball player Joe DiMaggio - has gained two places in the cemetery of Westwood, never to part with his beloved. Never say never, Joe! In 1954, Marilyn and Joe divorced. Then DiMaggio sold the place to a certain Richard Poncheru. Shortly before his death in 1986. Poncher asked his wife Elsie buried "face down" to always look at Marilyn. Otherwise, he promised his wife "to avenge her for ages." Elsie did so. But then came the turn of the proud Elsie revenge klutz-husband.

By the way, a place right next to Monroe's were sold in 1992, the publisher of Playboy magazine Hugh Hefner 75 thousand. Dollars. I even see them together!



Lot №5. Past Ian Usher

Price: 400 000 $ (avst)

Transaction: held in 2008. Asher expected to get for it 100 thousand more, but was pleased with the result.

One day the 44-year-old Ian avstralliets divorced his wife, lived a little MDM-5 many years, and decided to start a new life. But to start a new - old Ian poraskinul brains, - it is necessary to sell the old! And auctioned three-bedroom house, an old car "Mazda", ski, water skiing, parasailing, the opportunity to meet with his friends and take his place on the job. Asher left himself only a purse, passport and clothes that he was wearing at the time of the transaction.
When the transaction took place, joyful avstralliets announced that he is not prepared at once to deal with all this happiness that a halt to it, but now wants to explore, climb the Eiffel Tower, for example ...

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