{"id":9680,"date":"2010-07-19T12:05:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T19:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=9680"},"modified":"2010-07-19T12:44:22","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T19:44:22","slug":"kirk-uniform-fetches-high-price-in-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/07\/kirk-uniform-fetches-high-price-in-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirk Uniform Fetches High Price In Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan<\/em> may be almost thirty years old, but memorabilia from the movie still commands a high price.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Kirk&#8217;s <em>Star Trek<\/em> uniform from <em>Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan<\/em>, sold several days ago at the Heritage Auction Galleries auction, ended up bringing in the second-highest price of the auction.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/WOKUniform071910.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9681\" title=\"WOKUniform071910\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/WOKUniform071910.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"108\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The Kirk uniform consisted of a &#8220;distinctive maroon jacket, sleeveless white undershirt, black trousers, and black leather belt with metal Starfleet insignia buckle included. The jacket features a Western Costume Co. tag with Shatner&#8217;s name typed onto it and Russom&#8217;s name handwritten on it in black felt tip; the slacks have a Paramount Studios tag bearing Russom&#8217;s name in felt tip sewn into the waistband. The uniform is in overall Excellent condition with the exception of a small hole on the front of the jacket where an insignia pin was attached.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the auction site, the uniform &#8220;features a jacket and undershirt worn by none other than <strong>William Shatner<\/strong> in his role as Admiral James T. Kirk, and later modified and worn by <strong>Leon Russom<\/strong>, along with the included trousers, as the Starfleet Commander-in-Chief in <em>Star Trek VI<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The uniform was sold for $44,812.50. A black 1959 Gibson <strong>Les Paul<\/strong> custom guitar fetched the highest auction price, going for $56,762.50.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan may be almost thirty years old, but memorabilia&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2421],"tags":[2923,2418,2414,3312],"class_list":["post-9680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tos","tag-auction","tag-kirk","tag-shatner","tag-uniform"],"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\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tos\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TOS<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TOS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9680","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=9680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9688,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9680\/revisions\/9688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}