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Firsthand Account of the Christie's Star Trek Auction

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that's-a-lot-of-gold-pressed-latinum dept.

DustCollector writes to mention a Scientific American blog post about the highly successful Star Trek auction at Christie's on Thursday. The props, from many different shows, went for far more than was estimated. From the article: "The auction board flickered in perpetual motion as dollars changed along with the equivalent in euros, British pounds, Hong Kong dollars and Japanese yen (what, no quatloos?). Picard's Enterprise-E captain's chair, estimated to sell for $7,000-$8,000, went for $52,000. Two prop wine bottles of 'Chateau Picard,' estimated to go for $500 to $700, sold for $5,500. 'That's probably a record for empty wine bottles,' the auctioneer quipped. The sale prices so exceeded the estimated price that absentee bidders--those who place a maximum and hope for the best--hardly stood a chance: I counted only two successful absentee bids in the first 124 lots."

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  1. Shocking by eldavojohn · · Score: 4, Funny

    You know those guys we always used to beat up in gum class?

    Yeah, they ended up with all the money.

    I'm being sarcastic of course, I lacked the bicepts to ever raise a fist in anger/frustration ...

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    1. Re:Shocking by Osty · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah, they ended up with all the money.

      But now they only have empty wine bottles, and Christie's has all the money.

  2. Full scale models by waynemcdougall · · Score: 5, Funny
    Full-scale models of the Enterprise-A and Enterprise-D dominated the front of the room.

    Full-scale? That must have been a large room.

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    1. Re:Full scale models by jcr · · Score: 4, Funny

      Full-scale? That must have been a large room.

      Nah, the actors were tiny.

      -jcr

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  3. Somewhere in the Universe by ndogg · · Score: 4, Funny

    A ferengi is crying happy tears.

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