Man Sells Dead Fleas On Ebay For Thousands

An upclose shot of a flea display that is currently available on eBay, the first bid is $4,000 for...

An man is said to make several thousand dollars this weekend selling dead fleas on eBay.

The 10-day auction ends at midnight on Saturday, with the current bid at $4,000.

Steve White says the items up for sale are known as “Pulgas Vestidas,” or “Dressed Fleas,” a lost Mexican folk art known to have been produced between 1880 and 1926, White says.

Pulgas Vestidas are pairs of fleas usually decorated as bride and groom or farmer and wife. The details are impressive, given each flea is smaller than a grain of rice.

In 1926, they stop being made … nobody knows why,” He said. “The curious part is nobody knows exactly how they’re made or what material they’re made with.

One theory has the items being made by nuns at a monastery in Mexico that burnt down in 1926, White says.