LOS ANGELES — In July, a lightsaber with Luke Skywalker’s severed hand from “The Empire Strikes Back” sold for $3.75 million at auction, the highest price ever for a prop used in a “Star Wars” movie, according to the auction house.
Now, someone can buy the saber that made the split.
Darth Vader’s lightsaber used in the climactic duel in Cloud City where he tells Skywalker “I am your father” is among the highlights of the Ultimate Star Wars auction to be held by Heritage Auctions on November 12.
The Vader saber, which was also used in “Return of the Jedi”, is expected to fetch at least $1 million. It’s one of more than two dozen lightsabers being sold at auction spanning “Star Wars” Episodes I through IX and other movies and TV shows from the galaxy created by George Lucas.
Others include the dueling lightsabers fiercely worn by Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan Kenobi and Hayden Christensen’s Anakin Skywalker in “Revenge of the Sith” that are expected to cost at least $10,000 each.
An EE-3 carbine blaster worn by Boba Fett throughout “The Empire Strikes Back” is estimated to fetch more than $100,000.
Also included is a Yoda puppet hand used by Frank Oz in the character’s original appearance in “The Empire Strikes Back,” a signed C-3PO actor Anthony Daniels, a third-draft personal sketch for the original 1977 “Star Wars” and a TIE Fighter pilot’s helmet from “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.”