Indiana Jones Screen Used Sanskrit Cloth Temple of Doom

[thegreatgalling]

This just popped up on eBay:

Indiana Jones Screen Used Sanskrit Cloth Temple of Doom - eBay (item 140443969337 end time Aug-25-10 18:08:38 PDT)

 

[Moviefreak]

WOW!! I need cash bad!!

 

[Riskbreaker]

Just a quick glance at my HD copy of TOD suggests that this in no way, shape or form appears to be screen-used. I would even be wary of the label "production made" as the colors and material don't even seem to be all that consistent.

Caveat emptor.

 

[Apollo]

:lol Well there you have it, it has a COA from profiles so it must be real! :lol

 

[The Prop Stop]

my words exactly....laughs

 

[Moviefreak]

anyone contacting the seller for more info on the quthenticity?

 

[Lancer]

anyone contacting the seller for more info on the quthenticity?

what, and get him to confess he actually followed some instructions from COW and in fact his hard luck boo hoo story is just a load of old hokey.

the whole auction smacks of scam.

 

[Jedifyfe]

Just a quick glance at my HD copy of TOD suggests that this in no way, shape or form appears to be screen-used. I would even be wary of the label "production made" as the colors and material don't even seem to be all that consistent.

Caveat emptor.

Please post some comparison pics!!! :thumbsup

 

[Serenity]

Well, I don't think it looks THAT off. I mean, here's a production piece from a past private collection (courtesy of COW):

Here's the item in question:

Some of the aging/fraying appears to match but without a better picture, it's hard to say for sure.

As a side note, the aging/fraying does appear different than the version in the Archives book. I don't feel like scanning that right now though...

 

[Moviefreak]

I can't see the first photo??

 

[Serenity]

I can't see the first photo??

Hmm, I don't know what's up then, because I can see it... Here's a direct link, in any case:
http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/5224/cloth2.jpg

 

[Lightning]

looks like it could be a match to that private collection piece, but neither of those match the one actually used in the film. Especially the one used in closeup.

TheRaider.net

 

[Guardian Devil]

:confused Those two pictures appear to me to be the same piece, just now it seems to be slightly more weathered. If they're different pieces - it would be very difficuly to get those frayed edges to match so exactly, they all line up perfectly to all the details.
All the rips are in the exact same places and cut through the exact same parts of each of the symbols - even the little blob of red colouring by the knee is present on both

EDIT - In reference to Serenity's post

 

[Bullitt]

The screen used piece is completely different, but on the other hand if anyone were to make a replica and sell it off as a screen used piece, wouldn't they try to exactly match the one seen on screen? I mean, production made pieces are almost never identical.
Anyway, I'd still be wary, because I don't believe in 'huge discounts'.:rolleyes

 

[thegreatgalling]

Hey Serenity, the pics still don't work for me, even the link, am I the only one? Anyone else have the pic?

It really confuses me to no end how pieces alleging to be SCREENused look nothing like the screenused pieces.

So which is it, are all fakes terrible ones, or do we just never find out about the good ones? Both?

 

[thegreatgalling]

By the way, I have to reserve judgment on this piece for now since I havn't seen the pics, I am just saying.

 

[Riskbreaker]

You can't match it to something in another private collection without knowing the provenance of the other piece. In that case, you get into one of those circular Elstree Props arguments.

Neither of the photos above are close to what's seen on screen (in two different scenes where a close-up is clear and available) and neither seem to match the one in the Star Wars to Indy book, either, which I'm looking at right now. I'm not calling it a fake, I'm saying that it doesn't match any of the readily available reference material, so buyer should beware. $9,999 is a lot of money to spend on a prayer.

 

[Guardian Devil]

Well said. I'm not saying the person who's got one in their private collection has got a fake either, hopefully that wasn't what came across from my post, but to me that appears to be the same piece... and I'm not seeing any evidence that either are real either.

 

[Apollo]

Yep! Maybe that is what they are banking on. :unsure

You can't match it to something in another private collection without knowing the provenance of the other piece. In that case, you get into one of those circular Elstree Props arguments.

 

[Serenity]

Pictures updated so hopefully everyone can see them now. The Isberg Collection (which once held the first pictured Sanskrit piece, but later sold it) said this about the piece:

A prop Sanskrit cloth used by Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in the 1984 Lucasfilm Ltd. production. Obtained from the same source as my grail cup & grail diary.

I don't know about the cloth or cup, so I'm not going to make any judgments one way or the other on them. However, for what it's worth, the grail diary referenced has had more than enough research into it over the past years to verify that it's one of the production pieces. I'm not saying that this proves the authenticity of the cloth, or if it is even the same cloth as Isberg once had, but it's just something to note.