FIVE WEIRD PRESLEYANA RELICS
From dental work to underpants, fans have paid top dollar for a piece of the King
A LibrAry CArd
In 1948, the teenaged Elvis checked out a biography of Andrew Jackson from the Humes High School Library. In 2013, the card bearing his earliest known autograph sold at auction for $7,500.
ELvis’ bibLE
Given to him for his first Christmas at Graceland in 1957, this Bible may be worn and frayed, but it still managed to fetch nearly $100,000 at auction in 2012.
ThE King’s Crown
In 1975 Presley broke a crown on his molar, which his girlfriend saved for posterity. Thirty years later, the dental work went up for auction on eBay, although it was quickly taken down for violating the site’s policy of not selling human teeth.
An EmpTy vALium boTTLE
This grim totem of Presley’s addiction to over-the-counter medication, mostly prescribed
ELvis’ dirTy LAundry
Reportedly worn by Elvis during a show in 1977, shortly before he died, this pair of baby-blue briefs, still stained and sweaty, went up for auction in 2012, but did not sell.