Star Wars, James Bond and Daredevil bring top prices at Hollywood Auction
If you wanted that original T.I.E. fighter miniature from Star Wars, you missed your chance. You could have outbid the person who spent $402,500, and it would have been yours. At an auction in Calabasas, CA, on July 31 and August 1 from Profiles in History sold a variety of items for more than $4.1 million.
What else was there?
$207,000 Abraham Lincoln early albumen photograph signed
$74,750 Ian Fleming autograph manuscript relating to the James Bond movie From Russia With Love
$69,000 Screen-used full scale animatronic male Velociraptor from Jurassic Park III
$69,000 Charlton Heston’s Ten Commandments Tablets from The Ten Commandments purchased by Triviamania.com
$63,250 Michael J. Fox "Marty McFly" hero Mattel hoverboard from Back to the Future Part II & III
$57,500 Ben Affleck "Daredevil" hero costume from Daredevil
$54,625 Screen-used full-scale male T-Rex head from The Lost World: Jurassic Park II
$48,875 Roald Dahl original working manuscript of his James Bond screenplay,You Only Live Twice
$46,000 Original hero ray gun and holster from Forbidden Planet
$40,250 Screen-used full-scale Velociraptor suit from Jurassic Park III
$40,250 Dracula Re-Release one-sheet poster
$40,250 Archive of original Ben-Hur concept artwork
$40,250 "Jack Skellington" filming miniature house from The Nightmare Before Christmas
$25,875 The Holy Grail from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade purchased by Triviamania.com
I totally would have bid on the Daredevil suit if it came with Ben Affleck.
An autographed picture of Abraham Lincoln? What the hell was that doing in there?
Photograhpy existed during the Civil War.
But Hollywood didn't.