OT Bad case of want, need, must have.

I don't really do 'things' so when my friend Karen linked me to this

http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/publ...sContinent=EUR&screen=Catalogue&iSaleNo=15337

I was amazed at the raw need for Lot 3, The Prisoner blazer or, on the
next page, lot 11, Tom Baker's Dr Who frock coat. It's gorgeous.

I can justify the blazer, but not the frock coat. Thing is I'd never
wear it.

The auction is entitled 'The Angels Star Collection of Film & TV
Costumes '. Lots of Bond, Sci-fi, TV drama and film costumes.

Most expensive item is Obi wan's robe from Star Wars. Without looking
at the home page or going through all the lots to find it (though
some are well worth a look) anyone want to hazard a guess at how much
it is going for?

 

Oh. My. God. I know a whole bunch of people who'll be taking out second
mortgages. I'd heard this was on, but hadn't looked for the catalogue. I
need tissues for the drool.

ISTR that Berman and Nathan did this a fair few years back. A couple of
friends bought some amazing bargains: the market for this sort of thing was
far narrower, then, and B&N hadn't realised what they had. Original Space
1999 stuff for twenty quid.

I looked. Seems cheap, tbh. (Did I ever tell how I sold the bottom half of
C3PO at Christie's?)

Ali

 

Lot 362
Alec Guinness as Obi Wan Kenobi's from Star Wars, 1977, A cloak,
Estimate: £50,000 - 60,000

http://tinyurl.com/ypkwh9

 

Wonder if Anya will wear this for me...

http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/publ...nhams.com/&sPath=2007-01/09/7347573-206-1.jpg

 

Why would anyone who doesn't own some sort of TV/film museum want any of
that crap?

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You're in The Industry. That's why it makes no sense to you.

Ali

 

Collectors, because they're collectors (creepy Fowles images now)

Speculators to make money.

Sad sci-fi geeks like me, um, dunno, I'm having trouble explaining it
to myself. I think it's probably iconography in the true sense of the
word.

 

Oh My Yes.

Heh. I know some geeks who I'm not going to tell. It's for their own
good.

I spent ages going through it. Now I jsut have to decide if I'm going
to bid. Or drop heavy hints about my birthday being not that far away.

Even now some of the costumes are cheaper than buying new LARP kit.

I thought it was outrageous.

I'm sure you've mentioned it, but not how you ended up with it in the
first place.

 

I'm not, and I can't see the point either. You could wear it, but you'll end
up making it worth **** all, so all you can really do is show it to your
mates. Grrrreat...

 

I can't sensibly explain it either. I suspect you and I are having the same
visceral and primitive reaction.

Ali

 

Very wise. They'll prbably find out, but it won't be on your conscience.

Do you know someone really generous.....?

Oh, yeah - I know what some of the Worldcon peeps spent on the masquerade
gear.

Cheap in the sense that I reckon it will go for three times that.

Nice bloke gave us a Darth Vader helmet to auction in aid of my London Media
fan mob. He couldn't give us an authentication letter, as he wasn't totally
sure of what it was. He'd worked on all the movies, and had picked it up
when it was being junked. He wasn't sure if it was a mould or one used in
the film. Anyhow, he then said he had lots of other tat in his attic, and
would we like it? I climbed up the loft stairs, and found this box of bits.
Oh, he said, that's the bottom half of C3PO, as used when Chewie had him in
pieces in Empire. And promptly gave it to me, despite the fact I told him it
was worth a hell of a lot of money. He also had an R2D2. A real one.

So, I schlep it to Christies, where their collectables man nearly wet
himself. It was damn funny: there was me with a cardboard box full of golden
legs, a torso and assorted electronics. He was treating this with the
reverence some would accord to an Old Master. So, it went in their next
media sale. The day before, bloody Lucasfilm forced Christies to pull it,
implying it had been nicked. Which it hadn't and we proved it, but too late
for it to be auctioned. But, one of the collectors contacted Christies and
offered well over the reserve. We took it - via Christies, as they deserved
their commission, all the same. They behaved very well, so I wasn't going to
crap on them. It paid around three and a half grand, as I recall, which
funded a very very nice little convention at the Science Museum for the
group!

I also sold a set of Spock ears at Christies on behalf of one David Gerrold.
I've got three tribbles of his to sell sometime.

Ali

 

You are neither a geek or a collector, then. I've got a Babylon 5 crew
jacket I paid an insane amount of money for, but it was a) for charity and
b) I wear it. There's a lot of people who simply admire this sort of stuff -
like any other collectable, of course. No logic to it.

Ali

 

I remember a FantasyCon where a couple of the raffle prizes were dessicated
corpse props from Space Vampires - they were sort of gauze-bandage head and
torso things. If I'd had a room that was all-white with nothing in it but a
Wassily chair or two, I might have mounted one on the chimney-breast.

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"Merely corroborative detail, intended to
give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise
bald and unconvincing narrative.”

 

Agreed with the point about it making no sense, I can't understand it
either.
Might still be of use in the industry - but may I suggest:- the Porn
industry ???
They never manage to get the costumes right, I am sure these would go down a
treat there (although Tom Baker doesn't immediately come to mind but I am
sure they could fit in something with the SuperGirl outfit).

 

Agreed with the point about it making no sense, I can't understand it
either.
Might still be of use in the industry - but may I suggest:- the Porn
industry ???
They never manage to get the costumes right, I am sure these would go down a
treat there (although Tom Baker doesn't immediately come to mind but I am
sure they could fit in something with the SuperGirl outfit).