8 grand for the The Father of our Country? Shoot…I remember when Thurston Moore’s (The Father of our Daydream Nation) rancid bag-o-hair went for $100 at Pier Platters in Hoboken!
The first of three George Washington hair relic cards from 2007 Topps Allen & Ginter finally surfaced over the weekend in a 10-day auction listing on eBay. The auction, which currently stands at $8,300, with six days remaining, has attracted more than 40 active bidders and 9,000 unique page views in its first four days.
“It’s the most groundbreaking card that I’ve ever pulled,” said 17-year veteran hobby dealer Ken Simonis of Phoenix, Arizona. “I’ve been a high-end, game-used, dealer for long time and I have pulled some cards back in the day that could be equivalent monetarily to this card, but never have I pulled anything so unique.”
“I’ve received a mountain of email,” Simonis said. “Some people want to know about its origin, other people have just written to congratulate me, and others think the card is gross. The strangest email I’ve received by far was from a gentleman who seriously wanted me to end the auction so that he could buy it and try to clone George Washington.”
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1. 3Com Park Posted: August 31, 2007 at 10:37 PM (#2506625)Kind of makes you wonder what they'll be doing with our hair in 200 years...
I'm not all that excited by the prospect of having a piece of someone's hair, but given that, for some wacky reason, we *do* have pieces of George Washington's hair, I think we shouldn't just casually throw them to the winds. This seems very irresponsible.
(or are little kids priced out of the baseball card market nowadays?)
Perhaps you believe George Washington's hair (and toenail clippings) should be venerated as relics in a cathedral?
Alberto Gonzalez, Dick Cheney, and the Gang already took care of Part One for you. Selling it off now is the easy part.
But the fact is that it is interesting enough that people have conserved it for over two hundred years now. And once it is thrown away, it is thrown away forever, with effectively zero chance of recovery. It can't be un-thrown away.
Given those facts, yes, I think it is very irresponsible of Topps to decide, "Hey, let's destroy it to make a little cash in a cheesy baseball card promo!"
But yah, keep attacking strawmen.
Alberto Gonzalez, Dick Cheney, and the Gang already took care of Part One for you. Selling it off now is the easy part.
That's right, Sam, the Constitution's been shredded. And for daring to dissent, the Bushitler goons will be forced to toss you into Gitmo. Right now. Here they come!
Guys? Hello?
You mean there are no goons that toss dissenters into Gitmo? We still have the constitutional right to bi.tch and moan? Really? B-but...but Cheney...
OK, never mind.
The President of the United States of America argued that he should be held in this manner indefinitely.
But, as you say, OK, never mind. Go back to pretending that this Administration that you're supporting is not fundamentally and abhorrently unamerican, and go back to pretending that you're a patriot for doing so.
And lord knows this is the only important thing.
I'm sure this will eventually pass if it hasn't already.
Best Regards
John
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Hey, lets see if Topps wants to make the first scratch and sniff cards with Abe Lincoln's sack hair.
I quit that business because I thought it was getting rediculous 5 years ago. I see it hasn't gotten any better.
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