No Bites Yet For Elvis Tooth

Elvis Presley fans have a chance to own a piece of The King himself — not just memorabilia, but his hair and a tooth.

The items were being offered on the Internet auction site eBay, reports CBS News Correspondent John Hartge. The minimum bid was set at $100,000, and there was an unknown reserve (minimum acceptable price) on the lot. Only bidders approved by the seller were allowed to participate in the auction.

With half a day left, there were no takers.

According to the lot description, it included "a part of a tooth and a crown" from Presley's mouth, a lock of hair from Presley's famous haircut upon entering the Army in 1954, and a gold record presented for selling one million copies of "Love Me Tender."

"There are always a wide and wacky bunch of items listed any time Elvis Presley items are placed on eBay," eBay spokesman Kevin Purseglove told Hartge. "Right now, there are probably 15- or 16-, maybe 20,000 different items associated with Elvis Presley listed on our site."

These items, purported to be Elvis' own, have been on display in a Fort Lauderdale hair salon for about ten years.

"It never ceases to amaze me what people have gathered in their collections over the years and what they sell on eBay," said Purseglove.

By coincidence, Friday was the 49th anniversary of the release of Presley's first single, "That's All Right Mama," by Sun Records. It didn't make the national charts, but it did extremely well locally and sold several thousand copies.

The seller claims to have turned down an offer from a European company that wanted the tooth for its DNA, possibly for cloning.

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