An Elvis Presley tooth is being auctioned off on eBay.com!

NEW YORK (E-Bay) - An Elvis Presley tooth is being auctioned off on eBay.com, along with a lock of hair from his army haircut and a commemorative 24-karat-gold record of "Love Me Tender." The items belong to a private collector and have been on display since 1992 in downtown Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, at the Yellow Strawberry hair salon. The opening bid for the memorabilia on Tuesday (July 8) was $100,000, and by the end of the day was approaching a half million dollars. The auction ends next Tuesday (July 15).

The tooth - a molar - was once owned by Elvis' former fiancee, Linda Thompson. She donated it to the Elvis Presley Museum, which later sold it.
A European company wanted to extract DNA from the tooth to reportedly clone Elvis, but the seller was not interested.
The lock of hair was cut when Elvis joined the U.S. Army and he gave it to talk show host Joe Franklin as a present.

A spokesperson for Elvis Presley Enterprises, which manages Presley's estate, says it cannot authenticate the tooth and lock of hair but says it's possible that both items could be genuine.

Meanwhile, record collectors have pointed out a discrepancy in the auction of the gold disc. The record's picture sleeve shown on the web auction page is not the original because it lists "Loving You" as a flip side of the single. The original flip side of 1956's "Love Me Tender" was "Anyway You Want Me (That's How I Will Be)."

This is not the first time Elvis Presley's hair has been sold on the internet. A large clump of his hair, the size of a small ball, sold at auction last November for more than $115,000.