Just makes you want to cry...

[oldjudge]

Is the George Washington hair card pubic or cranial? Seriously, I think these kind of acts are a travesty. If a home is declared an historic site then the owners are precluded from altering it. Why not have a similar classification for historical artifacts. Once declared such they cannot be distroyed. Write your congressman!

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by oldjudge

Is the George Washington hair card pubic or cranial? Seriously, I think these kind of acts are a travesty. If a home is declared an historic site then the owners are precluded from altering it. Why not have a similar classification for historical artifacts. Once declared such they cannot be distroyed. Write your congressman!

Just what we need, more laws and regulations!!!

[travrosty]

I don't understand why they don't chop up a wagner, or a 52 mantle, its the same principle. they are not chopping up superman #1, or spiderman #1, are they?

Why take a Wilt Chamberlain Philadelphia Warriors jersey, an incredible piece, and chop it up and totally destroy it? It doesn't make any sense.

Let's raid the Smithsonian and cut up Lincoln's stovepipe hat so people can have a piece of it on a card. It's short term, profit driven, greedy thinking.

Destroying our sports heritage and history for a quick buck.

A multi-billionaire could buy up every single important sports artifact, vintage card, at every auction house in the nation for a decade, and take all that stuff, put it into a big bonfire and burn it, because it is his to do with what he wants. But who would support that? Just because he can, it doesn't make it right.

Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park had a good line. "Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should"

[kcohen]

Originally Posted by oldjudge

Is the George Washington hair card pubic or cranial? Seriously, I think these kind of acts are a travesty. If a home is declared an historic site then the owners are precluded from altering it. Why not have a similar classification for historical artifacts. Once declared such they cannot be distroyed. Write your congressman!

I'm given to understand that it was a nose hair.

[yanksfan09]

Originally Posted by kcohen

I'm given to understand that it was a nose hair.

You beat me to it, I was just gonna type that!

[yanksfan09]

Maybe someone will extract some usable DNA in a few decades and test whether or not it's George Washington's' hair. They can make a clone and see what grows....my guess is that it wouldn't be our first President.

[drc]

Lets hope it was just a nose hair.

Seriously, how far would the value of the Washington card fall it was revealed it came from his foot or back. Somehow the card would lose it's romantic luster.

Though keep in mind that keeping lockets of hair (head hair to be specific) as memento or rememberance was a centuries old practice. Pre-dated Washington.

Though if your card turns out to be pubic hair, I'm sure Cesar Palace would pay a pretty penny to display it next to their half eaten cheese sandwich that looks like Charlize Theron.

[ArchStanton]

Just think. You could actually over-pay for a pack of cards with a 1:954876 chance of getting a card with one square inch of Jay-Z's real, live concert-worn pants. Jay-Z's pants! Now, there is history.

[michael3322]

I just wanted to agree with everyone here, especially about the Josh Gibson bat. Derek made an excellent point. There is no reason why Topps couldn't have simply made it a "golden ticket"-like insert that could be redeemed for the entire Gibson bat. Destroying the bat to chop it into pieces is one thing when you're talking about Jeter or Cal Ripken, where more bats are available, but to do it to one of the only, possibly the only, Gibson bat, was a step too far.

[sylbry]

Years ago Upper Deck did have either inserts or a contest for entire bats/jerseys. Problem was the people who ended up with them needed to sell them to afford the tax bill.

[travrosty]

That's what happened to the lady who won the gretzky wagner throught the TREAT entertainment/Walmart giveaway, but not a bad problem to have though.