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John Lennon's Tooth -- Yes, Tooth -- to Be Sold at Auction
- Posted on Oct 19th 2011 11:20AM by Dan Reilly
Tom Hanley, Redferns
Yes, that's right -- as the BBC reports, one of the late Beatle's teeth will go under the hammer on Nov. 5 and is expected to fetch nearly $16,000. Thankfully, the tooth wasn't pulled from Lennon's corpse, but instead was given by him as a "souvenir" to his housekeeper, Dot Jarlett.
According to the son of Jarlett's son, the singer had the tooth removed in the kitchen of his Surrey mansion sometime in the late '60s. "He was in the kitchen and he had this tooth which he had wrapped in a piece of paper," Barry Jarlett told the BBC. "He said: 'Dot will you dispose of this' and then he said: 'Or, as your daughter's a Beatles fan, you can give to her as a souvenir.'"
A representative for Omega Auctions, Karen Fairweather, admitted that auctioning off a tooth is a bit odd. "This is the most wonderful and weird item that we have ever had for sale," she said.
"We are expecting it to achieve at least £10,000 but it is not unknown for these items as rare as this to reach six figures."
To reiterate our stance on the issue: No!
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Vernon
HERE..COME..OLE.. FLATTOP..HE GOT...MOLDY .. MOLAR LOL! Actually, i think that someone is goint to clone John's dna.
November 05 2011 at 10:42 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
JacktheRipper
The things that strange people do..
October 26 2011 at 4:39 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Ozzy
so yoko finally douched
October 26 2011 at 1:52 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
Brian
Lennon was such a faggot seriously who will buy that?
October 26 2011 at 12:44 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply
FJW
Jesus Christ, that's disgusting. John Lennon actually handed his grubby tooth to a "servant" and asked her to dispose of it?? Couldn't even toss it in the trash himself?? I thought he liked to be on the level of the common person. And then he suggests that they can keep it to remember his greatness? Would you like me to poop in a jar of alcohol too, so you can keep that around as well and show all your friends someday?
I never liked John Lennon. I liked the Bealtes, but John was my least favorite of them. I respected Paul the most musically, and I think I liked George the most for the sweet edge he brought to everything. But I could really do without alot of what John Lennon brought to the Beatles or to anything else for that matter. The others had manners. They could be gentlemen. They didn't rock the boat, they just rocked the house! :-) But John was a trouble-maker and I sometimes equate him a little with Jim Morrison. The kind of person who likes to jump around like a nut just to get attention and be a smartass and a pervert. Maybe it turned Yoko on but I don't think I just speak for myself in saying I can really do without alot of what he said and did.
Who going to buy it.?.what would you do with it ?....Why doesn't this guy want it ?...It was a gift !...you keep that darn thing..!.....enjoy !..ok I bid $5 bucks....whoooah !
October 20 2011 at 9:48 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySelling a mans tooth is the height of ignorance, this man was a singer for crying out loud....not JESUS CHRIST, Did someone gather his clipped fingernails to sell.
October 20 2011 at 6:37 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI don't know if this will be original or not, but I have a piece of toilet tissue of his that is reputed to have been where nothing else has been. Anyone out there want to start the bid? I also once owned what I refer to as a John Lennon special. Sold it tho.
October 20 2011 at 12:27 AM Report abuse Permalink -2 rate up rate down ReplyGood Grief! If somone wants to just throw money out the window why not aim it in the direction of a good charity.
October 20 2011 at 12:09 AM Report abuse Permalink -2 rate up rate down Reply
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