Infinity Festival presents “Bid Long & Prosper”; TOS Phaser And Communicator Props Fetch $1.7 Million!!

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Over the weekend Julien’s Auction held their “Bid Long And Prosper” Star Trek auction which we previewed last month. The final hammer prices for many of the items were well beyond original estimates, including record-breaking numbers. In total, the auction of over 200 lots of Star Trek memorabilia brought in $3.6 million.

The most eye-catching prices came in for props and costumes from Star Trek: The Original Series, especially those used by William Shatner’s Captain Kirk. His “long-lost” hero phaser sold for $910,000, over nine times the estimated price, and setting a new record for a Star Trek prop sold at auction. Coming in at a close second was a Captain James T. Kirk communicator which sold for a record $780,000, nearly eight times its original estimate. For comparison, three years ago at two separate auctions, a different TOS phaser prop sold for $250,00, and TOS rifle sold for $615,000.