Tuesday, March 06, 2007

I found some wicked old Jolly Ranchers in the pocket

From the BBC:

Star Wars cloak sells for £54,000

The cloak is expected to fetch more than £40,000
A cloak worn by Sir Alec Guinness in Star Wars, which went missing for 30 years, has been sold for £54,000 at an auction of cinema and TV outfits.
Estimates suggested the plain, brown robe, seen on the sci-fi film's Obi-Wan Kenobi character, would reach £40,000.

Tom Baker's Doctor Who costume - comprising a burgundy coat, brown tweed trousers and striped scarf - fetched £24,600, 12 times the anticipated sum.

And Batman and Robin costumes worn in Only Fools and Horses reached £10,200.

While Sir Alec's cloak was missing, it was loaned to other films - including The Mummy in 1999 - and was even hired out as fancy dress.

The Time Lord's famous striped scarf was included in the lot
Its heritage was only realised during a stock-check two years ago, and since then it has formed part of a film memorabilia exhibition in London.

Sir Sean Connery's dinner jacket from the James Bond movie Thunderball was sold for £30,900.

And a Navy battle dress jacket worn by Roger Moore in The Spy Who Loved Me went under the hammer for £10,880.

Read more here, if you like.

2 comments:

JPX said...

I don't know, I'd be a lot more excited about ANY other item from A New Hope besides Obi Wan's cloak. How about a lightsaber or a cup from Uncle Owen's kitchen?

Octopunk said...

Oh yeah? I got some of that blue stuff from the Lars breakfast table, how about I pour that on your head? Happy?

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