Alleged Screen Used Hero TOS Phaser up for auction (now the aftermath)

[Anakin Starkiller]

Sorry. I don't know anything about his new shells. I was referring to the shells he sold a few years back.

 

[Craqigbob]

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I think I saw this one at the Las Vegas ST con in 2019. I'll have to check my photos when I get home.

 

[Gregatron]

I think I saw this one at the Las Vegas ST con in 2019. I'll have to check my photos when I get home.

I saw a midgrade at the prop and costume exhibit which was making the rounds, a few years back. I believe it was attributed to the Paul Allen collection. I'll have to check my photos.

And maybe compare them to my Shanko midgrade build.

 

[KUROK]

This appears to be the other of the 2 Nichols’ Phasers, based upon the paint wear, and not the one seen in the on-hand inspection video.

This appears to be one that was displayed at the Paul Allen (EMP) Museum for a time:

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The details look an awful lot like the Capt Tracey midgrade from the close up shot in "Omega Glory". i.e. Lack of rising sight detail. Simplified "ten turn". Velcro and painted side rail.

 

[Lost in Trek]

The details look an awful lot like the Capt Tracey midgrade from the close up shot in "Omega Glory". i.e. Lack of rising sight detail. Simplified "ten turn". Velcro and painted side rail.

That’s all the mid grades. There were multiple mid grades made for the show.

 

[Gregatron]

That’s all the mid grades. There were multiple mid grades made for the show.

Yes, there are common details amongst the screenused props.

That’s the reason why learning so much about the props has its downside. They become much, much easier to fake.

Like these “midgrades” and the Heritage “hero”.

 

[Craqigbob]

So here's the best pics of the Phaser I saw at teh 2017 Las Vegas Star Trek Con. If I remember it was represented as one of NN's phasers.

 

[Gregatron]

These fakes always overdo the weathering and paint-chipping, and make it look like the studio artisans just globbed on paint as sloppily as possible. Too obvious.

 

[Onigiri]

So let me get this straight, did Shanko have access to a known original midgrade and base his shells on that?

Ron had access to the West Coast Collectors midgrade according to him

 

[Borg69]

I didn’t remember Uhura ever even holding a phaser until the movies but a little googling shows she did at least twice in the series.

 

[feek61]

So here's the best pics of the Phaser I saw at teh 2017 Las Vegas Star Trek Con. If I remember it was represented as one of NN's phasers.

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The nozzle is even more polished than it was during filming; funny how aging does that!

 

[Simonized]

The nozzle is even more polished than it was during filming; funny how aging does that!

I was going to say the same thing, you beat me to it haha

 

[NitramS]

I've binge read this thread, start to finish over the last 24 hours, and by god has it been a roller coaster. As someone said pages ago, if you had to turn it into a script, you'd fill a season's worth of episodes, filled with chills, thrills and betrayals. If nothing else, there was a ton of phaser trivia and information here, and it makes me want to get a kit and build a phaser now...

 

[Gregatron]

I've binge read this thread, start to finish over the last 24 hours, and by god has it been a roller coaster. As someone said pages ago, if you had to turn it into a script, you'd fill a season's worth of episodes, filled with chills, thrills and betrayals. If nothing else, there was a ton of phaser trivia and information here, and it makes me want to get a kit and build a phaser now...

Only if you don’t auction it.

 

[dbuck]

But the kit was from the Desilu prop department and sent to Chang to give it a once-over but ended up in Nimoy’s hands after Spock’s Brain wrapped and it’s got this provenance letter from Irving Feinberg. I don’t see the issue.

 

[Gregatron]

But the kit was from the Desilu prop department and sent to Chang to give it a once-over but ended up in Nimoy’s hands after Spock’s Brain wrapped and it’s got this provenance letter from Irving Feinberg. I don’t see the issue.

Oh, okay.

 

[Captain Dunsel]

But the kit was from the Desilu prop department and sent to Chang to give it a once-over but ended up in Nimoy’s hands after Spock’s Brain wrapped and it’s got this provenance letter from Irving Feinberg. I don’t see the issue.

True story…

My cousin’s brother-in-law’s uncle’s best friend’s nephew’s neighbor’s classmate once met a random man on a bus in 1972 who was handing out original phasers, from a box under his arm, to anyone that wanted one…

 

[joberg]

True story…

My cousin’s brother-in-law’s uncle’s best friend’s nephew’s neighbor’s classmate once met a random man on a bus in 1972 who was handing out original phasers, from a box under his arm, to anyone that wanted one…

That was in down-town Manhattan...right?

 

[Jintosh]

Here's a story that made the news back when iPads were new.
A guy had the back of his truck open in a parking lot, and a bunch of boxes in it.
A woman walks up, and the guy grabs a box, opens it, and shows a woman that walked out of the store, a new iPad. He demonstrates it for a while and then she buys one for $400. He grabs the next box off of the stack and hands it to her and she goes home before opening it.
She opens it and there is a block of wood with an Apple logo sticker on it. She goes back and off course he's gone, having already made $400 for a hard days work.

 

[jheilman]

Variations of that con probably go back a long time. I remember an episode of Adam-12 where a guy was selling new TVs off the back of a trunk at deep discounts. He even made a hole in the box so the buyer could see there was a TV inside. When the buyer got home and opened it, it was just a worthless, dead picture tube.