Overview
- The screen-used, light-up C-3PO production head, which sold Wednesday during day one, beat its $350,000 to $700,000 estimate to reach $1,058,400 including fees.
- Propstore says the piece is believed to be the only original head from the 1980 film on the collector market, with provenance traced to a crew member’s family.
- The sale ranked as the top lot of the opening session, helping push day-one results to $6.5 million across more than 250 film and TV items.
- Other highlights included Jaws’ Quint harpoon gun at $327,600, The Lord of the Rings Shards of Narsil at $252,000, and Cast Away’s Wilson volleyball at $189,000.
- Recent auctions show a pattern of high Star Wars prices, including a Darth Vader item that realized $3.654 million in September 2025.