People often sell (or pawn) expensive items from previous relationships, but old photos and memories are usually kept in a shoebox at the top of a closet.
But if your ex in college becomes the richest man in the world, you may be rethinking the value of your keepsakes.
That’s exactly what Jennifer Gwynne, a South Carolina-based stock analyst at McKesson Brands — who happened to be dating Elon Musk in college — is doing through the auction house, RR Auction.
Gwynne told businesskinda.com that’s her “always been a big saver of sentimental stuff,” and last year saw a former Musk student sell some homework he rated at $7,753.
“And I’m like, ‘I’ve got something a lot sexier,'” she said.
Gwynne added that aside from a small charitable donation, most of the money will go to her stepson’s college fund.
One of the items shows young Musk in a Judge Dredd superhero t-shirt in the University of Pennsylvania Quadrangle Dormitory, according to the list.
Courtesy of: Jennifer Gwynne // RR Auction
Bobby Livingston, executive VP at RR Auction, said: businesskinda.com that Musk is “probably one of the most important people of the 21st century”.
“Not a lot of Elon Musk material is being auctioned, so because of its importance there is a lot of interest in this auction,” Livingston said.
The photo’s description states that the duo “began dating in the fall semester of the 1994-1995 school year when they both lived and worked as Resident Advisors (RAs) in the ‘Spruce Street’ section of the Quadrangle Dormitory of the University of Pennsylvania.”
so far, That picture going for $636 (at time of writing) with 14 bids. You can bid until September 14.
However, there are plenty of other pictures for the Musk-obsessed, like him going out with a friend and Gwynne (at the time of writing $350), looking crazy in a dorm room ($630), or spat out in a tuxedo for a formal college ($417).
Courtesy of: Jennifer Gwynne // RR Auction
One of the highest photo bids to date is a 1994 photo of Musk on a computerwhich cost $1,641 at press time.
Gwynne wrote that she took the photo during “serious school work.”
“Elon talked about electric cars as the road of the future in 1994,” she said in the list. “So, frankly, for the past 25 years I knew that Tesla would work, that it would be a success. There is something very infectious about Elon’s confidence and clarity,” she added.
Courtesy of: Jennifer Gwynne // RR Auction
But that’s all topped off by interest in an emerald necklace, as CNN noted.
According to the list, Gwynne said that Musk gave her the necklace when they went to visit Elon’s mother in Toronto during the Christmas holidays in 1994: “Elon gave me both the little ‘love, love, love’ note and the necklace. His mother had some of these necklaces in a suitcase in her bedroom and Elon told me they came from his father’s emerald mine in South Africa – he took one out of the trunk.”
Courtesy of: Jennifer Gwynne // RR Auction
As of Monday morning, the bidding stands at $5,999. Musk has denied that his father, Errol Musk, owned a… emerald mine.
Musk is now worth $262 billion and is the richest person in the world, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
RR Auction also recently sold high-profile Steve Jobs corporate memorabilia.
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