Spacecraft discovered in cardboard box belonging to late model-maker Greg Jein becomes the ‘most expensive Star Wars screen-used prop sold at auction’
A long-lost prop from the original 1977 Star Wars film has sold in an auction for a record-breaking US$3.135m.
The prop, a 20-inch model of an X-Wing starfighter that was used in the climactic battle sequence of Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, had been considered missing for decades before it was discovered in a cardboard box in the garage of the Oscar-nominated model-maker Greg Jein. Jein died in May last year at the age of 76.
On Sunday the X-Wing became the “most expensive Star Wars screen-used prop sold at auction”, according to a statement from Joe Maddalena, an executive vice-president at Heritage Auctions, who facilitated the sale.
Man all this time it’s just been chillin in the garage! That’s pretty awesome.
How does one just forget that they have one of the most famous scale models in movie history just lying about in the car-hole?
Given the sheer amount of times extremely rare and expensive collectibles/art was discovered to be in someone’s storage, completely forgotten, I’m not surprised.