{"id":406388,"date":"2026-07-21T09:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T09:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/406388\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T09:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T09:31:13","slug":"hollywood-props-fetch-millions-at-heritage-auctions-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/406388\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood props fetch millions at Heritage Auctions sale"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 A lightsaber with Luke Skywalker\u2019s<\/a> severed hand from \u201cThe Empire Strikes Back\u201d<\/a> has sold for $3.75 million at auction.<\/p>\n

Heritage Auctions announced the results of its Hollywood & Entertainment Signature Auction on Monday.<\/p>\n

The lightsaber, used onscreen by Mark Hamill in the climactic Cloud City fight where Darth Vader declares \u201cI am your father\u201d in the 1980 \u201cStar Wars\u201d sequel, included a severed hand effects rig used for when Vader sliced it off.<\/p>\n

Heritage said the price was the highest ever fetched for a prop used in a \u201cStar Wars\u201d film.<\/p>\n

A Wicked Witch of the West hat worn by actor Margaret Hamilton in 1939\u2019s \u201cThe Wizard of Oz\u201d<\/a> brought in $550,000 at the auction, and the cocoa-colored top hat worn by Gene Wilder as the title character in 1971\u2019s \u201cWilly Wonka and the Chocolate Factory\u201d<\/a> went for $350,000.<\/p>\n

Daenerys Targaryen\u2019s chest with dragon eggs inside from the first season of \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d<\/a> brought in $312,500.<\/p>\n

Two rugs essential to the convoluted plot of \u201cThe Big Lebowski\u201d also sold. The one belonging to Jeff Bridges\u2019<\/a> the Dude that \u201creally tied the room together\u201d and is soiled at the beginning of the 1998 film went for $350,000. And the nicer one that he takes from his wealthy namesake outdid it with a price of $375,000. The rugs went for far more than expected. Bidding began on each at $15,000.<\/p>\n

The items\u2019 buyers and sellers were not identified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 A lightsaber with Luke Skywalker\u2019s severed hand from \u201cThe Empire Strikes Back\u201d has sold…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[162912,39485,162909,48,52,51,47,50,49,151209,162910,162911],"class_list":["post-406388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-film-props","tag-heritage-auctions","tag-hollywood-props","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-memorabilia","tag-star-wars-lightsaber","tag-wizard-of-oz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}