https://bid.juliensauctions.com/auctions/catalog/id/526
For the rich Trekkies in your life.
$100,000 for a “William Shatner” phaser.
USS Enterprise Step? Really?!?
Gotta figure most of the original props will go way up before close of bidding. Because right now, several items for $2k or less would be kinda cool to have!
Best I can do is a 100 Grand bar.
The site wouldn’t accept my bid of 400 quatloos, for some reason.
Kivas Fajo is going to outbid everyone.
Neither would I. The quatloo to gold-pressed latinum exchange rate these days is absurd.
My son, who works for an auction company, objects to the phrase “screen matched” to William Shatner. The phaser and communicator are one of several models each, and unless it was a one of a kind prop, without further documentation it’s impossible to match any given hand prop with any given actor. For all anyone knows, Shatner had his own personal phaser.
At best, he says, it’s unverifiable. At worst it’s deliberately misleading to call those particular props “screen matched.”
He’s going to buy all the chairs, and destroy all but one.
I told my wife if she’d authorize two, two and a half million, I could make quite a collection. Alas, no.
I’m not sure the phaser looks any better than the replica I already have. Yes, it would be authentic. But the only one I would want to impress is…me.
Apparently, there will be an auction featuring various props from the original Star Trek series on November 9, with the two featured items being the “type 2” (pistol-shaped) phaser and communicator used by Captain Kirk, each with what are either current bids or minimums of $100,000, according to an article at Space.com. (You can get the link to the auction site from there.)
So is the dollar to gold pressed latinum exchange rate.
Rule #82: