1977 Elvis Presley Souvenir Scarves
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GUEST:
When I was about 16, I went to see Elvis, a couple of months before he passed, in Madison, Wisconsin, at the Dane County Coliseum. He threw out a scarf and I caught it with another woman, and she and I were going to cut it in half, and this man jumped out of the second row and he went to punch me to take my scarf away. And it startled me and I let go and he hit her, and I'm not quite sure what happened with the scarf, who got it. I'm not sure if Elvis saw what happened, or what, but he just walked over to me, he bent down, he handed me that scarf, and I grabbed it and shoved it down in my pants.
APPRAISER:
You put it in your pants? (laughing)
GUEST:
I put it in my pants! And I ran back to my seat, and my brother was asking me, "Did you get one? Did you get one?" And I said, "Yeah," and he's, like, "Let me see it," and I'm, like, "No." Well, these actually do come up a lot. Elvis gave these out regularly. And when they do come up for sale, despite the fact that this is actually a facsimile signature-- it's kind of printed on the scarf-- they still for anywhere between $800 and $1,200 whenever they come up for auction.
GUEST:
No! That's exciting.
APPRAISER:
Yeah. Within an hour of me talking to you, I saw another person that had almost the exact same story that you had, and you know what, for a split second, I was afraid it may have been that woman that got punched.
GUEST:
Oh, my gosh, yeah!
APPRAISER:
So I'm actually going to bring someone out here and can you tell us-- what show did you go to?
GUEST:
Oh, hi. Well, I went to the April concert right next door at the Brown County Arena, April 28, 1977.
APPRAISER:
And which show did you go to?
GUEST:
It was in June of '77. June 24, 1977.
APPRAISER:
How did you get your scarf?
GUEST:
When I got to the front and he started handing out scarves, there was a big girl next to me, and I wrapped my scarf around my hand, and she wrapped her scarf-- the other half of the scarf-- around her hand, and somebody said, "Why don't you cut it in half?" And I thought, "I don't want to cut it in half." So someone else, then their girlfriend said, "Well, let her have it, "we'll get the next one, because he's right there handing them out." So I shoved it down my shirt and I climbed back over to my seat, over all the seats, and I just never moved again.
APPRAISER:
So I already spoke to her about the values, but what I told her is that although these scarves do come up a lot at auction...
GUEST:
Yeah.
APPRAISER:
They're still very popular. And they routinely sell anywhere between $800 and $1,200.
GUEST:
Oh, okay.
APPRAISER:
And you two have eerily similar stories about how you got your scarves. She shoved them down her pants, and you shoved it down your top. We have very industrious women here in Wisconsin.
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