At an auction in Stockport, near Manchester on Saturday (September 8), a Bible which was given to Elvis Presley by his uncle Vester and aunt Clettes for his first Christmas at Graceland in 1957, fetched £59,000 after being sold to an unnamed American man based in the UK. The book was only expected to make £25,000.

Karen Fairweather of Omega Auctions said of the selling the bible, which was annotated by Elvis: “It was a really exciting atmosphere in the room, we had 300 people and there was bidding online and on the telephone across the world. You could hear a pin drop when it sold for that price… There was a round of applause when the hammer went down. It was incredible.”

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At the same auction, a pair of stained underpants owned and worn by Presley failed to sell.

The pants, which were worn by Presley underneath one of his jumpsuits during a performance in 1977, hadn’t been washed since Elvis took them off, and featured a suspicious yellow stain on the front of the crotch.

Though bids for the item reached £5,000, the underwear did not sell as the reserve price of £7,000 was not reached, reports BBC News.