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Star Wars
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Snaggletooth figure on offer
20 July 2020This Star Wars Kenner Blue Snaggletooth action figure, undented toe version, complete with original weapon, is estimated at £80-120 in the Special Auction Services October 27 Toys for the Collector sale.
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News In Brief – including a Star Wars action figure making 50-times estimate in Newbury
01 June 2020A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including a Star Wars action figure droid from 'The Empire Strikes Back' making over 50-times estimate.
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First ever Star Wars poster from 1976 comics event sells for £4000 at auction 44 years later
05 May 2020A long time ago, a poster costing $1.75 launched a series of films set in a galaxy far, far away. Forty-four years later, that series has become the phenomenally successful Star Wars blockbuster and a rare example of that same poster has just sold at auction for £4000.
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ENTERTAINMENT MEMORABILIA: Poster artwork is star attraction
17 February 2020The market for both film and music posters is booming but original artwork for such designs can also be a very collectable option for buyers.
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Meet Snaggletooth and Greedo
09 December 2019Bruneau closes the year with a December 14 sale of Comics and Toys, for which Travis Landry, its director of pop culture, will join forces with ‘event entertainment company’ Altered Reality Entertainment.
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Auction record for Star Wars toy set in US with sale of rocket-firing Boba Fett figure
20 November 2019A new record for any Star Wars toy has been set in the US with the appearance at auction of a rare prototype action figure - the J-slot rocket-firing Boba Fett.
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Rare prototype Star Wars figures could make auction record
30 October 2019A new record for any Star Wars toy is anticipated next month with the appearance at auction of a rare prototype action figure.
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Star Wars so wrong it’s right to buy
16 September 2019Boosted by the ‘wrong therefore rare’ factor – so important in the world of collectables – a 1977 British quad film poster for the first Star Wars film took top billing in a 250-lot specialist sale at Ewbank’s (24% buyer’s premium).
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Auction record as Boba Fett blasts to new Star Wars high
22 July 2019An auction record for a Star Wars toy was established when Hake’s Auctions of York, Pennsylvania, sold a rocket-firing Boba Fett action figure for $95,700 (£76,600).
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Star Wars Tie Bomber toy found untouched in Leicestershire attic makes 10 times estimate at Hansons auction
24 June 2019The force was strong with a sale of Star Wars toys at Hansons of Derbyshire last week as 90 lots fetched a hammer total of £24,000.
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Star Wars action figure prototype comes to auction
14 March 2019A small piece of Star Wars action figure history comes for sale at Vectis Auctions in Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees next month.
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Star Wars costume designer’s personal sketchbook makes £100,000 at Bonhams
13 December 2018The archive of John Mollo, the concept artist behind the Star Wars franchise, came up at Bonhams this week. Leading the sale was a personal sketchbook showing some of the first hand-drawn costume designs for Darth Vader, Chewbacca and the stormtroopers.
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Star Wars memorabilia: John Mollo archive leads selection of auctions this season
12 November 2018With the Star Wars saga now more than 40 years old – and still going strong – the memorabilia market buzzes as never before. With so many of the original fans of the first movies now at prime income-earning age, prices for figures, posters and props continue to rise.
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Han Solo Return of the Jedi blaster fires bidding to $550,000 in Los Angeles auction
02 July 2018Han Solo’s blaster used in the Return of The Jedi has made a much bigger and successful impact than the struggling Star Wars spin-off film relating to the wise-cracking charmer first played by Harrison Ford.
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Feel the force of Darth Vader demand
02 April 2018When the first wave of Kenner Star Wars action figures began arriving on the market in 1978, the Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker figures came with ‘double telescoping’ light sabres.
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Early and rare Darth Vader figure among stand out lots in US auction of Kenner Star Wars toys
28 March 2018The sale of a well-known collection of Star Wars production figures has set new price levels at a Pennsylvania auction.
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Create your own home cinema with film posters and seats on sale at auction
04 January 2018Televisions are so large these days that watching films in your own house has its own big screen quality. You could enhance the home cinema experience thanks to lots coming up at a Gloucestershire saleroom.
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War of the Worlds film poster from 1953 on offer at Dudley auction
25 November 2016The War of the Worlds 1953 British quad film poster is regarded as a scarce must-have in that collecting market.
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‘Le Boba’ sets auction record for Star Wars figure, selling for £21,000 at Vectis
25 July 2016A new record for a Star Wars production figure was established at Vectis' latest sale when a French issue of Boba Fett, the memorable bit-part character in ‘The Empire Strikes Back’, sold for £21,000.
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Star Wars rarity – Boba Fett with firing rocket offered at Vectis’ auction
14 July 2016The Rocket Firing Boba Fett has assumed legendary status among Star Wars collectors. Modelled in grey-blue plastic in advance of mass production by the Kenner factory in Ohio, it would forever remain a prototype figure.
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