This March 2008 photo provided by Melissa
McIntire shows a corn flake next to a dime. Two sisters from
Virginia sold their Illinois-shaped corn flake on eBay Friday
night.THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Donald McIntire,
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CHICAGO - A corn flake shaped like Illinois is now a museum
piece.
A trivia-company owner from Austin, Texas, purchased the flake on
EBay Friday night from two sisters in Virginia for $1,350.
Monty Kerr owns TriviaMania.com. He plans to put the flake in a
traveling museum along with other items of Americana.
Twenty-three-year-old Melissa McIntire says she and her
15-year-old sister, Emily, were biting their nails as the auction
ended. She says the family is relieved and can't believe they sold
the cereal for more than $1,000.
The first auction attempt was stopped by EBay due to rules
against auctioning food, so the sisters auctioned a coupon good for
the flake instead. The new owner says he'll probably send somebody
to Virginia to pick it up personally and make sure it doesn't get
damaged.
The McIntires say they'll likely use the money to take a
vacation
