Big Cola Smooch From Marilyn Monroe

Beverage currently consuming: Diet Pepsi from 10 oz. glass bottle

Apparently Mentor, Ohio is a hotbed of activity for Marilyn Monroe fans... and we all know that she loved Coca-Cola. Oh, you didn't know? Me either. But an eBay seller has the goods on Marilyn's cola preference and he has a 1950s Vendo 110 Coke machine to prove it.

This 5-day eBay auction has so far grabbed 19 bids with a current high bid of $859.00 US funds (below the reserve price with only 4 hours left to go).

Here's a description from the listing: "Her lip imprint is still on the machine. I know it is hard to believe and NO I do not have the matching potato chip with her resemblance. Just look at the top right corner of the machine. Her lip print is still visible after all of these years. Now I do not have a picture of Marilyn Monroe kissing the machine, but I can tell it is her lip print..."

Very clever, but hardly the kind of thing that will draw attention to the auction and help the machine sell. But, considering the counter on the page is at 820 (and eBay logs auction searches based on keywords in their titles), I could be wrong. So if it's not an authentic Marilyn Monroe pair of lip marks adorning this Coke machine, whose is it?