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vesuvius
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posted October 08, 2006 07:53 PM |
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A Piece of Star Trek History
As some of you may or may not know, there was an auction at Christies of New York for most if not all of Star Trek's movie set material. Most important to me was the Star Ships.
There are two models that were used throughout the movies for the USS Enterprise, a larger (8 foot) and a smaller (2 foot). The large one went for over $200,000, (and the Picard one for over half a million) but I managed to get the smaller one at $42,000. Indeed, something two feet long at the cost of a new Nissan 350z... but it is a unique piece of Star Trek history, and quite valuable, and will appreciate in price.
Anytime you see the movies (Star Trek II thru V), remember that the ship filmed in those movies will be sitting in a special room at my house 
I'll post some pictures of it once it is delivered.
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ChEsHiReKaT
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posted October 08, 2006 08:13 PM |
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Ves thars phenominal!!! I collect star trek stuff as well but wow thats like gold to a trekki.
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Gom_Jabbar
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posted October 08, 2006 08:26 PM |
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OMG, you paid 42000$ for that? Your nuts.
Geeeez
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Vadskye91
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posted October 08, 2006 09:37 PM |
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Vesuvius, you put us to shame. Well done.
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Aculias
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posted October 09, 2006 01:35 AM |
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Rob has millions.
He finds 42K under his couch cushions.
Also finds 100K in his pants he has not wore in 8 months.
Yes he forgets it's in there.
Good one Rob, it will be a good collectrs item.
For collecting, not selling.
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Consis
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posted October 09, 2006 05:48 AM |
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Yep
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As some of you may or may not know, there was an auction at Christies of New York for most if not all of Star Trek's movie set material.
I read about it this morning.
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vesuvius
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posted October 09, 2006 07:11 AM |
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I found out about this auction 12 hours before the auction started lol. I couldn't sleep, and stayed up all night and had to be a part of this. Since I already had an account with Christies' they got me in with an agent who bid for me by phone.
Problem was that I didn't expect how high the prices would go! I first bid on the Enterprise-E class, hoping to get it for no more than $25,000, and it jumped up to 110,000 dollars! That was almost 10x the bid range expected. I knew then that my chances were slim of getting anything.
So getting the Enterprise A class was a steal for $42,000, in comparison...
Yup, this is what I bought:
The battle scars you see here are still authentically there:
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Consis
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posted October 09, 2006 02:41 PM |
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Ah Yes . . .
I was raised on it. My mother and I watched every episode two or three times at least. I even had my own model that I assembled way back when I lived in Midland, Texas. The year was 1981 or 82 I believe.
She's a beautiful ship Rob. Please see that she gets taken care of. Gene Roddenberry couldn't have done a better job in creating Star Trek and his staff couldn't have done a better job breathing life into the many futuristic star ships, weapons, and other technical devices for the show.
The most amazing thing is how closely we seem to be leaning toward building the science fiction in real life. The communicators and cell phones . . . what's next? The Enterprise herself? She'd be a fine ship. I just know it.
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