who wants che guevaras hair?

[BlueWahooChambordDevil]

Che Guevara hair lock to be auctioned

DALLAS - Anyone can get a "Che" T-shirt for a few bucks, but an actual relic from the revolutionary figure is likely to cost a bit more at an auction Thursday.

Bidding starts at $100,000 for a 3-inch lock of hair from Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the Marxist whose iconic picture has become a popular, even sometimes fashionable commodity since he was killed in a Bolivian jungle 40 years ago this month.

Heritage Auction Galleries is putting the hair, allegedly snipped off Guevara before burial, up for sale despite alleged threats made against the company by Guevara admirers since the auction was announced in September.

The Dallas-based auction house said it will have extra security on hand for the bidding after monitoring "leftist bloggers" upset that the company is profiting from Guevara's death.

"(Che) is kind of revered and hated," Heritage spokeswoman Kelley Norwine said. "It's at both ends of the spectrum. This has been one of the most ranging of emotions. ... It's crazy."

More than 30 prospective bidders are registered on the auction house's Web site to monitor the bidding, in addition to the many expected to pack the gallery room.

Norwine also said someone in Venezuela "? where President Hugo Chavez venerates Guevara as a model socialist "? requested that a catalog of Thursday's items be delivered overnight.

Norwine said she couldn't reveal who in Venezuela asked for the catalog but insisted she wasn't "trying to be coy."

The hair was consigned by Gustavo Villoldo, a former CIA operative and Cuban exile who was involved in Guevara's capture, according to unclassified U.S. records and other documents.

According to Heritage, Villoldo did not want Guevara's body to be returned to Cuba, where it would receive a hero's funeral, so he supervised the burial in a common grave where a runway was being built.

"I wanted proof," Villoldo said of taking the hair, "that I had completed my mission."

Norwine said the hair hasn't been forensically matched to Guevara because of fears of test tampering. But she said the auction house is confident in its authenticity.

The Cuban government announced in 1995 that its anthropologists had uncovered Guevara's remains from Bolivia, and re-interred them in Cuba without doing DNA testing. Villoldo and other exiles and experts say the body is still in Bolivia.

[imported_juggernaut28]

I wouldn't pay that kind of money for anyone's hair. But who in the world is going to bid that kind of money and not know for sure if it is even his real hair. It would take an idiot to do something like that.

[BlueWahooChambordDevil]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: juggernaut28</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I wouldn't pay that kind of money for anyone's hair. But who in the world is going to bid that kind of money and not know for sure if it is even his real hair. It would take an idiot to do something like that. </div></div>
and bet your ass some jackass will bid 6 figures for it

[NotSoSilentBob]

I wish I had the money. I'd buy it and burn it just to spite all the pretentious [censored] weasels who laud the commie waste of carbon.

[imported_juggernaut28]

and bet your ass some jackass will bid 6 figures for it [/quote]
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Well someone did buy it for 100,000.

Houston bookstore owner wins 3-inch tress from revolutionary icon.
Associated Press:
Dallas: A hair lock snipped from Ernesto "Che" Guevaras before his burial in 1967 sold for $100,00 at auction Thursday to a houston area bookstore owner who called the Marxist "one of the greatest revolutionaries of the 20th century."

Bill Butler, 61, won the 3-inch tress clipped from Guevaras's mane after placing the only bid, chich matched the reserve price.
Butler, who bid over the phone, said he was a collector of the 1960's items and that the hair lock would fit in well.