{"id":7477,"date":"2009-10-11T09:42:27","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T16:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=7477"},"modified":"2009-10-11T09:42:27","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T16:42:27","slug":"star-trek-auction-items-fetch-high-prices-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2009\/10\/star-trek-auction-items-fetch-high-prices-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek Auction Items Fetch High Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, Profiles in History held its thirty-seventh auction of Hollywood memorabilia, and included in the auction were forty-odd <em>Star Trek<\/em> items.<\/p>\n<p>The  <em>Star Trek<\/em> items did very well, with all of the lots sold except for eight, with some of the pieces selling well above their estimated prices.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The most inexpensive lot was #601, a set of cocktail glasses, which had an estimated price before the auction of $300-$500, but went for $1,416.<\/p>\n<p>The most expensive lot, #604, which featured a photographic archive of over ten thousand photographs, slides, transparencies and negatives, covering <em>Star Trek<\/em> from the original series through <em>Star Trek: Voyager<\/em> and the movies through <em>Star Trek: Insurrection<\/em>, was estimated to sell from $8,000 to $12,000, but sold for $23,600.<\/p>\n<p>Other sales showed that <em>Star Trek<\/em> fans are doing well, recession or no recession. An original Tribble went for $3,540, well over its estimated value of $600-800. <strong>Gene Roddenberry<\/strong>&#8216;s Macintosh 128 computer sold for $8,260, and Seven of Nine&#8217;s brown catsuit sold for $6,400.<\/p>\n<p>While most items sold, a few were left at the end of the auction. A red original series dress sold for $12,980, but a blue sciences dress did not sell. Also unsold was the Borg Queen&#8217;s arm, which was expected to fetch between $6000-$8000.<\/p>\n<p>The auction was held Oct 8 and 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, Profiles in History held its thirty-seventh auction of Hollywood memorabilia, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2416,2443],"tags":[2923,2949],"class_list":["post-7477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom","category-merchandise","tag-auction","tag-profiles-in-history"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/fandom\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Fandom<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/merchandise\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Merchandise<\/a>","tag_info":"Merchandise","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7478,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477\/revisions\/7478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}