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Above: This production made Darth Vader helmet from the Star Wars franchise dates to the period leading up to the release of The Empire Strikes Back in 1980. It carries an estimate of £15,000. Left: A lifesize statue of Pinhead made for the horror movie saga Hellraiser is estimated at £5,000
highlights include a production-made Darth Vader helmet from the Star Wars franchise (estimate £15,000), the jackhammer used by vampire killer hero George Clooney’s character in From Dusk Till Dawn (£5,000) and even a lifesize Anterean Alien model from the film Cocoon (£3,000).
For Trekkies, autographs from all eight central actors of the original 1966 Star Trek series – from William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy to DeForest Kelley and James Doohan – are lotted together at just £300.
When it comes to rare scripts, how about an original production script for the 1968 film Where Eagles Dare, starring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood (£400-600)? Or the 1979 BBC strike-hit Dr Who series SHADA, starring Tom Baker and written by the legendary Douglas Adams, more famous as the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (£1,000)
Propmasters are pioneers in the world of movie prop collecting, serving the collector as a business since 1988 and collecting privately prior to then. Over the years they have supplied Planet Hollywood, major auction houses throughout the world and, most importantly, collectors.
“The popularity of collecting seems to have no end as more and more people join the growing snowball in search of film props and costumes,” says Propmasters founder David Oliver. “We have sold items within the last 24 months which we have seen more than quadruple in price, amazing to consider we are talking ‘thousands’ rather than ‘hundreds’.
“Prop collecting is now very firmly established which we are more than proud to see as when we first started the reaction was more of a ‘What do you want that for?’ rather than a ‘Wow, where did you get that?’ as it is today.”
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