ESB Clapperboard 1980 British TV: Which Vader "saber" is this?

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Skip to the 13:45 mark, where the interviewer and Dave Prowse are sadmiring TESB Vader suit. The interviewer take a Graflex off of Vader's belt (with the flash holder painted black) and talks to Prowse about the saber.

Where else was this Graflex used/ could have been used? Since we know that TESB Vader hero was an MPP modified slightly from ANH version, and since the black painted Graflex we see in this shot is obviously incomplete for a screen used saber, what exactly are we looking at here?
 
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*awkwardly avoiding the racist comments on James Earl Jones' voice*

What we're seeing is a full Graflex top attached to a silver Kobold flash unit. I have no idea when this could have been used. It DOES look like the master for the casting Vader throws at Luke in ROTJ..


Luke's severed hand saber is also a graflex stuck into a silver kobold, however that was gutted, decorated, and remains that way to this day. Looks like they did this a few times.
 
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