Star Wars, Batman and James Bond items for sale at Propstore film auction

FROM Yoda’s cane to Clint Eastwood’s duster coat in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, hundreds of items will go under the hammer next month in a sale of movie and television memorabilia.

Entertainment memorabilia auctioneer Propstore is selling more than 1,800 items at its annual live auction, which this year runs from Nov 14 to 17, and which it estimates could fetch more than £10 million (S$17 million).

Items worn or used by some of Hollywood’s biggest names are up for grabs, with plenty of lots from some of cinema’s biggest franchises including the popular James Bond and Harry Potter films.

Leading the sale is a Sandtrooper helmet from the “Move Along” scene in Star Wars: A New Hope, which is estimated to fetch anywhere between £250,000 and £500,000.

“It’s an incredibly rare artefact,” Propstore founder and chief executive Stephen Lane said.

The Yoda cane being sold was used in both The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, Propstore said.

An array of costumes are being sold, including Michael Keaton’s Batsuit from Batman Returns, a suit worn by Daniel Craig in the Bond film Skyfall and the 2015 resizing jacket that Michael J Fox’s character Marty McFly wore in Back to the Future Part II.

Eastwood’s duster coat from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is also among those up for grabs.

“The duster is a synonymous attire for most Western films,” Lane said. “This is deemed to be one of the best Western films, perhaps of all times and Clint Eastwood costume pieces from those films virtually never, ever turn up.”

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Other highlights include Russell Crowe’s Maximus arena helmet and mask from Gladiator, the ghost face mask worn by Henry Winkler as principal Arthur Himbry in Scream, and a dress worn by the late Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra.