Lord Abaddon
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That would be an incredible find!! Keep us updated!
RED ALERT Lost 3 ft TOS Enterprise found????
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Yeah, did they not google the name?? LOL Just must churn and burn on ebay.
pootboy
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yeah, good point. this is a 5 million dollar ship.
(bare minimum. precedes star wars by 10 yrs, the ONLY one of it's kind at this screen-used scale, cradled in the arms of shatner and nimoy and sat on roddenberry's desk?? 10 mil isnt out of the question.)
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I mean jeez, it was used as the ship itself on screen, as a prop for Shatner and Nimoy to hold in photos, it was the shrunken ship in an episode. Photos with Roddenberry. Not a lot of props have anything like that.
This can't be the actual 3 footer. The Enterprise had plug holes on the starboard side of the ship along with seam lines running around the saucer and along the nacelles. Pfft, clearly a forgery.
Seriously though this is an incredible find with quite a story waiting to be told.
Seriously though this is an incredible find with quite a story waiting to be told.
Gary Kerr has blessed it as authentic, I think this was one of the fastest authentications in history. LOL
“It was found in a storage unit that I bought from an auction. The unit belongs to a filmmaker named Burton Holmes”.
“It was found in a storage unit that I bought from an auction. The unit belongs to a filmmaker named Burton Holmes”.
Looking at the seller’s other items, I doubt they knew what they had. They appear to be an antique mall booth renter / estate reseller to my eye. The question is, how did it fall into their hands?
Wonder what that note on the bottom about voltage was about? This was never lit was it?
Likely notes for the 11 footer written on the card ,,,
That makes sense, this model was used to scale up the 11 footer I think.
Hmmm,,, Burton Holmes died in 1958
Burton Holmes
Born Elias Burton Holmes on Jan. 8, 1870 in Chicago, Ill.. Died July 22, 1958 in Hollywood, CA
projects.latimes.com
Interesting to note, as it relates to storage units:
“Burton Holmes has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2004, 200 reels of Holmes's documentary footage, long thought lost, turned up in an abandoned storage unit. They are currently housed in the George Eastman House film museum.”
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Hmmm,,, Burton Holmes died in 1958
Interesting tonote:Burton Holmes
Born Elias Burton Holmes on Jan. 8, 1870 in Chicago, Ill.. Died July 22, 1958 in Hollywood, CA
“Burton Holmes has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2004, 200 reels of Holmes's documentary footage, long thought lost, turned up in an abandoned storage unit. They are currently housed in the George Eastman House film museum.”
Must be another dude. Unless his family was involved later.
Richard Datin's business card as a model maker was taped to the bottom of the stand. So the seller put it in the listing
Good thing too, or the seller would have just listed it as "Toy Enterprise Model" or something and it might not have been spotted so quickly.
Funny thing, I've thought about this missing model now and then, and this is EXACTLY how I thought it would turn up one day.
I figured whoever possessed it knew they couldn't put it on display. And there were never even any rumors of anyone spotting it in some private display. So I figured whoever had it had it stashed away. It's been missing long enough I figured whenever that person died it would either be found by their heirs (who may or may not know it was stolen) or literally turn up in an unclaimed storage locker. I mean, I literally imagined this exact scenario.
I can't even say how happy I am I'm around to see this found. If it ever goes on public display I'm going to make a trek out to see it. Even just seeing new photos is great.
No only one 3 footer.
I believe it was used to scale up to the 11 footer, which was not lit at first either now that I think about it.
So the voltages on the bottom may be evidence of planning to light the 11 footer, which didn't happen until later.
