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Travolta 'time traveller' photo on eBay

By MSN NZ
15:00 AEST Fri Sep 30 2011
A picture of a John Travolta look-a-like is up for sale online for $51,000.
An eBay seller claims the picture of a man from around 1870 looks like 47-year-old Nicholas Cage.
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John Travolta has popped up in a vintage photograph from the mid-19th century, according to an eBay seller peddling an uncanny resemblance to the A-list actor.

Travolta's doppelganger is a bow-tied, austere-faced gentleman who posed for a camera in 1860.

The seller, from Ontario in Canada, is billing the ruby glass ambrotype photograph as a "very young John Travolta Scientologist time traveller".

The Scientology reference may be a cheeky allusion to the Church's belief in reincarnation.

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The photo is listed on eBay for NZ$65,000 "or nearest offer".

"I've had this interesting photograph for years and I've been unable to part with it," the seller said on the auction site.

"When you look at it and into the eyes of the sitter you will see what I mean!"

An antique photo purporting to resemble Travolta's Face/Off co-star Nicholas Cage also recently appeared on eBay.

But this American Civil War-era photo of Cage's doppelganger comes with starting price tag of NZ$1 million.

Seller Jack Mord, from the US city of Seattle, jokes that the 47-year-old Con Air star is a vampire who rejuvenates himself every 80 years or so, before appearing in "some other part of the world, young again, and ready to start all over".

The 10cm x 6cm thin paper photograph, dated around 1870, shows a man who lived in Tennessee but his name is not known, the seller said.

Mr Mord, who collects antique portraits, believes the photograph was taken by a confederate Civil War prisoner of war photographer.

Both sellers say their images are genuine and have not been tampered with in any way.

User comments
If these are legitimate photos then they are the freakiest thing I've seen lately....
creepy

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