Star Wars memorabilia auction raises £177k

A monolithic Star Wars auction has fetched much than £177,000.

The 10-hour "Star Wars Extravaganza", tally by Vectis Auctions successful Stockton-on-Tees, saw much than 600 items spell nether the hammer.

Memorabilia included figurines and life-size helmets, with 1 antheral selling his full postulation to wage for his upcoming wedding.

Joanne McDonald, from the auction house, said it was "a superb day" for "vintage artifact markets".

Pre-sale estimates had enactment Tuesday's postulation astatine fetching betwixt £94,000 and £120,000.

A uncommon vinyl-caped Jawa figurine attracted the highest bid, selling astatine £9,180 aft fees.

More than 1,000 imaginable buyers took portion successful the bidding process, with immoderate 10,000 radical watching the online merchantability astatine immoderate 1 time, the auction location said.

Ms McDonald, Vectis' catalogue section manager, called it "a superb auction time owed to the magnitude of planetary involvement successful the Star Wars collections".

She added: "We knew it would beryllium a engaged merchantability but we didn't expect it to beryllium that good, it was beyond our expectations."

Vectis said it had 3 antithetic terminals moving astatine the aforesaid time, 1 for UK buyers, 1 for US and Canadian buyers, and the 3rd for the remainder of the world.

A Meccano Luke Skywalker exemplary was estimated to fetch £2,000 but sold for £7,595, and different large sellers included a Meccano Boba Fett astatine £8,330.

Ms McDonald added: "There was a substance of exemplary items, and a batch of the items volition beryllium going overseas to planetary buyers, peculiarly to Americans.

"What we saw is simply a truly affirmative motion for the aboriginal of Star Wars collectables and younger collectors."