Propstore "screen matched" TOS Tricorder

[phase pistol]

Didn't see this anywhere yet...

https://propstoreauction.com/lot-details/index/catalog/397/lot/138322?url=%2Fauctions%2Fcatalog%2Fid%2F397%3Fpage%3D1%26view%3Dgrid%26items%3D100%26catm%3Dany%26order%3Dorder_num%26xclosed%3Dyes%26featured%3Dno%26key%3DStar%2BTrek

 

[Captain Dunsel]

I am in agreement that the overall “Leatherette Tricorder” looks screen-used. Great detective work by Propstore, as usual.

The “guts” in the middle and lower compartments…including the disc round, hypno disc / moire, in the upper compartment….and the dividers in the lower compartment…are not typically found in a Tricorder other than the 2 original Wah Chang heroes.

 

[Gregatron]

Here we go again.

 

[feek61]

Don't know much about this one but the center inside parts do not look original.

 

[Captain Dunsel]

Wasn’t another “Leatherette Tricorder” auctioned off, over a decade ago, but had no internal “guts” in the middle and lower compartments?

My memory is murky.

Here are the pics of that particular Tricorder:

The previously auctioned Tricorder may be the “other” leatherette as I believe there were two made for Season 3. The leather grain pattern is also different compared to the Propstore Tricorder.

 

[feek61]

The screen cutout looks a different shape to me

 

[Captain Dunsel]

Personally, for me, the most awesome thing this reveals is this appears to validate my theory that, in later seasons, they used screws in the middle compartment as “doorstops” to keep the door from being pushed in too far...

I had incorporated this detail in my recent “Geo Tricorder” build, earlier this year:

Star Trek Geological Tricorder Build

I’m about to start on a Star Trek Season 3 “Geological Tricorder” project… I’m shocked to find that there really aren’t any builds of this model on the RPF. Does anyone have an accurate build that they can post pictures of? I’m especially interested in seeing the construction of the...

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[newworld]

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I am in agreement that the overall “Leatherette Tricorder” looks screen-used. Great detective work by Propstore, as usual.

The “guts” in the middle and lower compartments…including the disc round, hypno disc / moire, in the upper compartment….and the dividers in the lower compartment…are not typically found in a Tricorder other than the 2 original Wah Chang heroes.

They contacted me about this and I sent what I felt was perhaps a screen-match reference which they had also found. But that interior is just…scary. But with that said, in season 3 the 2 Leatherettes became the de facto heroes with the old heroes relegated to background or “specialty” use (ie geo tric). Throughout season 3 Spock and McCoy use Leatherettes. I have no shots of the 2006 PIH Tric with open doors so that blows.

 

[AdmiralBaxter]

Yet another forgery/fan build

Propstore Auction

 

[AdmiralBaxter]

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The screen cutout looks a different shape to me

Definitely a different cutout

 

[AdmiralBaxter]

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I am in agreement that the overall “Leatherette Tricorder” looks screen-used. Great detective work by Propstore, as usual.

The “guts” in the middle and lower compartments…including the disc round, hypno disc / moire, in the upper compartment….and the dividers in the lower compartment…are not typically found in a Tricorder other than the 2 original Wah Chang heroes.

Overall yes, but when we look at the shapes on the compartment doors and the obvious replacement interior for the upper compartment ehhhhhhhhhhhhh......

I am a bit too skeptical

 

[Racer_X]

It appears there are grain patterns that match up to the Day of the Dove tricorder. Real, or a super-duper forgery?

 

[Captain Dunsel]

It appears there are grain patterns that match up to the Day of the Dove tricorder. Real, or a super-duper forgery?

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The Tricorder body is “real” to my eye. Propstore has employed their usual high standards and due diligence to screen-match the piece.

We never saw the “guts” in the middle and bottom compartments on-screen, so I can’t render any opinion regarding whether those specific parts are original to the piece, or added by an owner in later years.

 

[AdmiralBaxter]

It appears there are grain patterns that match up to the Day of the Dove tricorder. Real, or a super-duper forgery?

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But the faceplate and other details are off..... the grain doesn't match

 

[WinstonWolf359]

I'm not convinced the faceplates don't match. They look...convincingly close to me.

There are some other shapes and contours in the side plates that are fairly unique to the original props that also seem to match really well.

 

[Captain Dunsel]

I'm not convinced the faceplates don't match. They look...convincingly close to me.

There are some other shapes and contours in the side plates that are fairly unique to the original props that also seem to match really well.

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Agreed.

 

[AdmiralBaxter]

Agreed.

Some things do and others don't. I know the data disk and moire are from a fan built replica from the 70's as I used to have the same moire pattern.

Detailing on the door panels seem to be slightly off

 

[Prop Collector]

Why do you say that?

 

[Racer_X]

Video of Adam Savage with this tricorder.

 

[AdmiralBaxter]

Why do you say that?

The data disc rack and moire are fan made.

The moire is from a Jim Kirk...