The oval head dominated by copper eyes the size of quarters was sold for $797,500, within the house estimate of $600,000 to $900,000.

Texas cattle numbers grew significantly in that period, and after the war could not be sold for more than $2 a head in Texas.

In order to avoid them, I took refuge in a cookshop, where tongues and sheep's heads were sold.

In a box beside the carving is a label reporting that such heads were sold as votive objects to pilgrims on their way to shrines.

Hasbro estimates that 40 million heads have been sold, with about a million kits bought each year.

The head was sold for an additional $50,000.

The heads are sold to a taxidermist for $1 apiece.

The carcass was later decapitated by local villagers, and the head was sold to a tourist.

The original head was put into storage and later sold at auction in 1993 to a Dallas collector.

The heads were sold around the world.