180K for this?
 

Little Johns Auction Service in Orange, CA. had auction last week. In the two sessions many of the items were from Stembridge, a company that provided firearms to the movie industry for props. This modified broomhandle Mauser was used in Star Wars. It went for 180K. Someone has too much money.

Tracy

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Movie memorabilia... Now if I had Dorothy's glass slippers, I could rule the world!!! ;)

There are some dumb MF in this world who have no value for money!! Who cares if it was used in Star Wars as a prop. I would take any other rare Mauser C96 for one tenth of the price any day!

Albert

That's pretty funny, actually... :D

There is a term for someone who could and would pay that much money for something like that: useless lumps.
Useless lumps are easily recognized by the amount of publicity they get for accomplishing absolutely nothing. Paris whatshername comes to mind.

I guess there are no Han Solo fans here eh? :D

This is not surprising. I don't know if anyone caught the television special on the Star Trek auction earlier this year, but there are an awful lot of people with deep pockets and a dedicated collector focus (not unlike collectors of a certain auto pistol we all know and love) who are willing to shell out big bucks for "very special" (and some not so special) one-of-a-kind items.

And I mean big bucks, up to half-a-million of them for the big Star Trek Next Generatioin spaceship prop...

--Dwight

--Dwight

The guns used by the main characters actually fired blanks.
The Stormtrooper rifles were modified Sterlings with 5 or 10 round magazines.
The longer guns were MG34's.

They used blanks so the actors would have some "feedback" when they fired the "lasers".
It also provided a queue to sync the optics in post production.

Before Lucas "fixed" the original movies you could see ejecting brass when they fired and in a couple of scenes you could see brass on the floor.

tsk, tsk tsk, seeing this old broomhandle, made up as a blaster helped inspire me to admire them. You people are just dishsoap boring. :D Of course, if I had the choice between that and 5 1920 and 1902 carbines, well, I'd four wall hangers and a shooter ;)



I just watched the original set of three this last weekend....:cheers: