Need help Identifying Star Wars Blaster...

jimmyc

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So i have had this for a year or two and was wondering if anyone out there help better identify it.. i know its a ROTJ(ish) E11 Blaster from Star Wars.. the date on the bottom says 95 so Im assuming it was made for something that had to do with the special additions... dont know much about it.. it's made out of resin and has been damaged a few times over the years (not from me.)

as you can see in the pictures.. stamped on the bottom is
ILM
TS
95

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any help is much appreciated... :)
-JimmyC
 
You pretty much nailed it. It was cast from one of the blasters made for the Special Edition pickup scenes. They were also used for Lucasfilm promotional tours

Dan
 
You pretty much nailed it. It was cast from one of the blasters made for the Special Edition pickup scenes. They were also used for Lucasfilm promotional tours

Dan


i guess the next question i have since i don't know too much about the making of the special editions... Were all the props made from found weapons or did any of these resin casts see any screen time?

like should i even bother cleaning it up and trying to protect it?
 
Highly likely they only used these castings for the pickup shots. Without any closeups of the weapons, nor the need to fire them, there would not be the need to build or bring any made from found weapons/MCGs.
 
I'm also new here but not new to the collecting world, however I will defer to those on here with vastly more experience then me. These are my opinions-

Should you clean it up- by that do you mean wipe off the dust or do you mean sand down the mold lines, repaint it, etc? A simple cleaning cant hurt it but doing a major refinish could hurt any value (even minimal) that this item has- I would assume even if its not screen used that an ILM proven prop must have some intrinsic value. So my opinion is dont do anything that would modify its current finish.

I also base this off years of real world experience involving guns. I cannot tell you how many Colt single actions, Lugers, WWI/II 1911s, etc that used to come into my fathers store that would have been worth thousands only to be worth hundreds because the owner decided the weapon looked "too beat" and had it refinished (or in the case of a cavalary Colt SA they actually took a wire brush to it in order to make it bright and shiny- destroying the natural patina and turning an easy $8-10k pistol into <$1500). If I have learned anything from places like RPF is that condition is everything and collectors want the props to reflect the beating they took (after all if you want pristine "factory fresh" props then you are talking almost exclusively about hero's or prop reps- and even hero's will show dings and dents from use)

As for screen time I will defer to better experts then me on that matter. I would assume it would be very hard to know for sure unless you found a prop list from when ROTJ, etc was filmed that states blaster TS 95 was used in X scene. But again I am just learning the ins and outs of this whole prop thing (and Star Wars is not really a specialty of mine)
 
Oh, I missed the cleaning question.

These blasters were recast and sold on the RPF and elsewhere in quantity. It's very unlikely yours is screenused. It's just a casting of one. (Neat to have, mind you--I have one myself.)

So you won't be destroying movie history if you clean it up. BUT--if this prop representing the condition of the props used during the shoot is important to you, then leave it alone.
 
I agree with Tread 100%. In addition, if it were a genuine screenused piece, not a recast, I'm reasonably sure the letters on the bottom would be clearer, more crisp and much easier to read.
 
It definitely not screen used and . The seam lines match up to the ones I was selling. It's a nice blaster but should only be classed as a cast from an ILM original as they were only used for the pickup shots on ANH SE. They were also used with the tour suits.
 
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