Original stormtrooper suit auctioned at Christies

Hmmmm, house? or stormtrooper suit? I wonder if my bank manager will see the virtue in buying this instead of the house LOL

Hey. That's an ANH belt

R2Dan said:

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Hey. That's an ANH belt

And right forearm,left bicep and right shin.

It's a shame the owner removed the tape from each pieces which were annotated with specific film titles....as well as adding velcro and so on.

It should have been left untouched inmo.

Same here, sounds a little bit like the ESB helmet with Star Wars patch on the back to me...
Thanks for sharing this picture as i wasn´t able to save Christies´s pictures.
Is this the only publicly available picture of the suit?

gizmo said:

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And right forearm,left bicep and right shin.

Right shin is not ANH.

HDPE said:

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It's a shame the owner removed the tape from each pieces which were annotated with specific film titles....as well as adding velcro and so on.

It should have been left untouched inmo.

Could you explain what you mean?

I don't understand which 'tape' or 'velcro' you are talking about

RoCKo said:

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Same here, sounds a little bit like the ESB helmet with Star Wars patch on the back to me...
Thanks for sharing this picture as i wasn´t able to save Christies´s pictures.
Is this the only publicly available picture of the suit?

No probs.

As far as I know yes, but Jez /starwarshelmets must have a ton of other pics I assume.

Here is a super blury one of the owner and is friend trying the suits in 1993.

xenomorph said:

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Could you explain what you mean?

I don't understand which 'tape' or 'velcro' you are talking about

Cropped from the Christies catalogue :

xenomorph said:

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Right shin is not ANH.

Well from what I can make out in the blurry pic is that it features the ANH cover strip hiding the join unlike the left shin with ROTJ style one side overlapping the other.

Ben

Take a closer look. They are both assembled in the same manner with the overlap rather than butt joined.

gizmo said:

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Well from what I can make out in the blurry pic
Ben

This is the best I could do :

Great pics. Thanks for showing these. I am hoping we get to see a bit more of these items and hear more of the back story.

I would love to see more of the helmet pictured as well.

Cheers Chris

HDPE said:

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This is the best I could do :

That's better,sorry Xenomorph I see you are correct from that pic. My bad.

Ben

what did it sell for or has it yet to be hammered ?

what did it sell for or has it yet to be hammered ?

23 November

Where's the helmet then?

Ok

How did the guy get the suit?

Freakin' kids!

Stormy320 said:

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Where's the helmet then?

Unfortunately the (HDPE) ANH helmet is missing.

ThePhoenix said:

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Ok

How did the guy get the suit?

Once again cropped from the catalogue :

Anyone know how much this sold for?

the boots only sale went for £ 1,750

armour went for £ 205,250