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davidcyclebackMight prove to be an interesting thread.
A couple of years ago I won in a Sotheby's auction two WWII-era leather travelling cases that belonged to and were used Ted Williams. While the cases themselves were respectable enough (name printed on both, one had gold text showing it was given as a present to Ted in 1943), some of the contents taken singly were borderline bizzarre. This included Ted's half-used WWII-era chapstick (as gross as it sounds), a glass bottle still half filled with 60 year old shampoo, a chrome soap dish with 60 year old soap scum on the bottom, hair brush with hair, toothbrush holder, his shoe horn (I'd never used a shoe horn and someone had to tell what it was).
I tried to convince a neighborhood kid to wash his hair with the shampoo so he could become a better baseball hitter, but his mom who was with him didn't think that was such a swell idea.