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John Lennon’s tooth to be sold at auction

John Lennon once sang that people "Can't buy me love", and while you still can't buy love, you will soon be able to buy John Lennon's tooth.

One of the Beatles molars is being put up for auction on Nov. 5 and the starting price is $16,000. The tooth, which spent most of its time in Canada, is mostly yellow in colour and has a cavity.

"This is the most wonderful and weird item that we have ever had for sale," says Omega Auction house owner Karen Fairweather to BBC.

The tooth is too fragile to conduct a DNA test, but Fairweather doesn't doubt the authenticity because of it came from.

Lennon gave the tooth to his housekeeper Dorothy "Dot" Jarlett when she was working for him between 1964 and 1968.

"She was very close with John, and one day whilst chatting in the kitchen, John gave my mother the tooth (he had been to the dentist to have it removed that day) and suggested giving it to my sister as a souvenir, as she was a huge Beatles fan," says Dot's son Barry Jarlett to CNN. "It's been in the family ever since."

Dot Jarlett's daughter married a Canadian and the tooth has been in Canada for most of the past 45 years.

This isn't the first time a body part of a celebrity will be sold at auction. In 2009, a clump of Elvis Presley's hair believed to have been trimmed when he joined the army in 1958 sold for more than $18,000.

While the Jarlett's are selling the tooth, they plan to keep a leather wallet and a pearl necklace Lennon gave Dot.

(Omega Auction house Facebook photo)