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LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 A lightsaber with Luke Skywalker\u2019s severed hand from \u201cThe Empire Strikes Back\u201d has sold for $3.75 million at auction.<\/p>\nLOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 A lightsaber with Luke Skywalker\u2019s severed hand from \u201cThe Empire Strikes Back\u201d 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 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 went for $350,000.<\/p>\n
Daenerys Targaryen\u2019s chest with dragon eggs inside from the first season of \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d 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 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 for $3.75 million at auction. Heritage Auctions announced the results of its Hollywood & Entertainment Signature Auction on Monday. The lightsaber, used onscreen by Mark Hamill in the climactic Cloud City fight where Darth Vader declares \u201cI … Continue reading Luke Skywalker\u2019s \u2018Empire Strikes Back\u2019 lightsaber with severed hand attached auctioned for $3.75M<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1526846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1451],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1526842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-entertainment-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2026-07-24 12:41:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[0],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1526842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1526845,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526842\/revisions\/1526845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1526842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1526842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1526842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}