I’ll try to explain. I was searching on eBay for the values of baseballs — I have a bunch from Jimmy Piersall, thought I’d keep one and sell the rest along with photos of Jimmy from my photo journalism days, 1964-1972, when I worked for Chuck at Tiger Beat / Monkee Spectacular Magazines, edited MOD Teen Magazine, and was official photographer at RCA and Columbia Records. I made a photo record of the sixties, I guess you’d say. Anyhow, I was ploughing through the “for sale” junk on eBay and I came across a weird “baseball” card…it contained a clipping of Abraham Lincoln’s hair. Knowing about braided widow’s lockets, I wasn’t surprised. Also for sale on that day were a lock of hair from King George III (that’s the “Georgian” Period of furniture & architecture, get it???), George Washington (George vs. George?) and a number of others, including several hundred thousand (I’m not joking or exaggerating) clippings, lipstick kisses, lingerie swatches, bikini swatches, high heel cut sections and you wouldn’t believe what-all these folks will sign and sell.
What folks, exactly, you ask?