A lock of David Bowie‘s hair fetched $18,750 at Heritage Auction‘s “Entertainment & Music Memorabilia Signature Auction,” held June 24 and 25 in Beverly Hills. The deeply personal artifact carried a pre-sale estimate of just $4,000. 
 
 The seller, Wendy Farrier, was a wig maker at Madame Tussauds in London in the 1980s. At the time, the museum was preparing to create a wax statue of the singer, and Bowie came in for sitting. Farrier cut a small lock of his hair in order to accurately reproduce the color for the museum. 
 
 “Once hair samples were matched with any figures at Madam Tussauds they were discarded as a matter of course, so there was amusement when I asked to keep one from the selection taken from Bowie,” wrote Farrier in a signed letter posted on the Heritage website. “I can honestly and sincerely say that this is a genuine sample of David Bowie’s hair from 1983 that I cut from his head myself and have kept all these years.” 
 
 Bowie, who died in January, wasn’t the only recently deceased entertainment icon represented in the auction. Also on the block was a bright yellow guitar custom-designed for the singer Prince, who died in April. 
 
 The instrument, which the singer played both during studio sessions and live in concert, sold for $137,500 on an estimate of just $30,000. Consequence of Sound reports that the buyer is Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay. 
 
 Other recent music memorabilia sales include John Lennon’s hair, which sold for $48,000 in February, and the Beatles’ songwriter’s lost guitar, which sold for a record $2.41 million in November. 
 
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 Prince's distinctive "Yellow Cloud" guitar, used by the late icon throughout the Nineties, sold at auction Saturday for $137,500. The bright-yellow, custom-built guitar – made by Minneapolis' Knut-Koupee Enterprises and outfitted with gold knobs, tremolo and tuning keys – was purchased by Indianapolis Colts owner and avid music memorabilia collector Jim Irsay at a Heritage Auctions event where a lock of David Bowie's hair also sold for $18,750. 
 
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 "This Yellow Cloud guitar was Prince's main guitar & used in most of his early videos & touring performances & album recordings. From around 1988-1994," Prince's former guitar technician Zeke Clark wrote for Heritage Auctions in a letter of authenticity. 
 
 "In 1994 he broke the neck of this guitar at a French T.V. show. After returning to U.S.A. I repaired neck & installed the first Floyd Rose set up Prince ever played. And then used in recording more albums, up until the symbol guitar was born. After the symbol guitar he wanted 24 additional cloud guitars made to be sold at his outlet store." Heritage Auctions noted that the guitar's neck was "expertly repaired." 
 
 In December, Irsay, a music fanatic who has spent millions of dollars stocking up an entire arsenal of historic instruments, purchased at auction Ringo Starr's 1963 Ludwig Oyster Black Pearl three-piece drum kit for $2.2 million. That same auction, Irsay was the high bidder on a Rickenbacker guitar John Lennon had gifted to Starr during the recording of The White Album. 
 
 "I feel I'm just a curator of history. I'm going to pass this thing on as time goes along," Irsay told Rolling Stone in December of his collection, which also features Bob Dylan's 1965 Newport Folk Festival guitar, Lennon's "Paperback Writer" Gretsch guitar and Les Paul's "Black Beauty." "It's just a privilege and an honor." 
 
 Hundreds of unique items were sold to the highest bidder at Heritage Auctions' Music Memorabilia Signature Auction Friday and Saturday, including the lock of Bowie's hair, an unplayed Fender guitar signed by George Harrison and Eric Clapton and even Whitney Houston's 2006 California driver's license. However, Houston's 1986 Emmy Award was pulled last minute from the block after a federal judge blocked it sale. 
 
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– A wig maker who helped create a fake David Bowie has sold a snippet of the real one at auction. Wendy Farrier was working at the famous Madam Tussauds wax museum in London in 1983 when she cut a lock of the star's hair to make sure she got the hair right for the wax figure's wig, Artnet reports. It sold at a Los Angeles auction of rock memorabilia on Saturday for $18,750, more than four times the $4,000 pre-sale estimate. "Once hair samples were matched with any figures at Madam Tussauds they were discarded as a matter of course, so there was amusement when I asked to keep one from the selection taken from Bowie," Farrier, who is donating part of the money to help stray dogs in Thailand, wrote in a listing at Heritage Auctions. Rolling Stone reports that the auction also included Prince's custom-built "Yellow Cloud" guitar, which was used in many of his early videos and tours. It sold for $137,500 to Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay. (Astronomers have named a constellation after Bowie.)