The idol from the beginning of Raiders of the Lost Ark. And Indy’s whip.
The gold watch from Pulp Fiction.
That price sounds ridiculously low.
My brother works at Lucas Film, and he says the carbonite Han Solo prop decorated the lobby of the building he works at. There’s probably an entire Boba Fett costume around there somewhere.
I don’t know if costumes count, but isn’t the white suit from Saturday Night Fever buried with Gene Siskel?
I second the Maltese Falcon, and what’s more, you can have your own! I have one, and it’s very good.
Actually, I run The Ruby Slipper Fan Club and a pair of ruby slippers sold in May 2000 for $660.000.00. (I actually got to hold them by the invitation of the then owner, Tony Landini.)
http://rainbowz.deltacomm.com/rubyslipperfanclub/auctiongallery.html
The pair that was stolen in August 2005 (which were never recovered) were said to have an insurance policy on them for $1,000,000.00.
I also made the ruby slippers (they only used one of them for the 2009 production of “Night at the Museum - Battle for the Smithsonian” visit this link and click the clip called (of all things) Ruby Slippers: http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1810028001/trailer
Hope that wasn’t TMI, but start talking about movie props and someone mentions ruby slippers, I jump in. 
One of them is on display at Hollywood Casino in Tunica. Smaller than you’d think, and the cockpit is really cramped.
There’s also a model of the back half of the Titanic that’s pretty cool…but would be a pain in the ass to display in a private collection.
I once met a propmaster who had come up with one of the more iconic props of the last 25 years.
A few years ago I was working on a pilot whose offices were in a bungalow on the CBS Radford backlot in Studio City. The bungalow next door housed the offices for Disturbia, which was prepping some additional photography (I had worked on the movie 4 or 5 months earlier during principal photography, and ended up working a few days on this as well). Outside the offices one day, my boss introduced me to a guy that he had worked with years earlier. We chatted a bit, and after he departed, I was informed that he had designed the mask used in Scream.
Regarding some other great props, some of my own favorites would include the horse’s head, Moe Greene’s glasses (after being shot), and the gun used by Michael in shooting the Turk and McCluskey; Pulp Fiction has a few that are memorable, though my fave would be the Red Apple cigarettes, because all the others (except for the wallet, which is pretty common now) are fairly generic (syringe, samurai sword, boxing gloves, briefcase, watch).
Oh, more mad scientist’s 80s props! The transporter pods from Cronenberg’s The Fly! Those were fantastic.
I also nominate the wheelchair from The Changeling (1980).
Not at all. Welcome to the SDMB. I just love that there’s a Ruby Slipper Fan Club. A fan club for a movie prop. People are weird (but this is a good kind of weird).
No, it wasn’t TMI.
Your Ruby Slipper credentials are impeccable. Excellent stuff, and thanks for the links. 
I would love to have Robbie the Robot (Forbidden Planet version) as my best friend.
I recall from the commentary track of LoTR that several of the actors were given their character’s swords at the end of shooting. jealous 
And that Theoden’s armour had his poem calling for the Rohirrim to arise was engraved on the inside of the armour; where only he got to see it as it was being put on.
I believe that Elijah Wood also insisted in his contract that he get to keep the Ring, so in case the movie/his career flopped, he could make money by selling it to a collector.
not one of the greatest props, but I like the Neuralyzer…I remember when the movie’d been out in theaters a while and there was a half page ad with MIB and a close-up of the Neuralyzer with the caption:
“See it again, for the first time!”
Heck, there were LOTS of cool props in the first one.
Connery’s Aston Martin
The Batmobile from the 60s TV show
The Orb from Sleeper
In Early, early Disneyland, they had the props on display in a “walk through” “ride”. Very Cool.
stevejarrett- thanks!
In what was surely a total coincidence, I actually saw a DeLorean today, driving into my place of work.
As wheelchairs go, I would rather have Capt. Christopher Pike’s.
Funny you should mention that…
Thirty grand, but hey, admit it—there are a lot of stupider things you could do with that kind of money. Plus there’s the good chance that, within a couple of decades, you’d be able to upgrade one for at least simple household tasks and light conversation.
This one’s easy - The Dude’s rug from The Big Lebowski. Without it, you have no movie - it’s right up there with the Maltese Falcon and the Ark of the Covenant, but, better, 'cause, you know, it really ties the room together, man.