So I have a chance to buy this headpiece for under $500. One just like it sold a year ago for around $3000. And a well known screen used version sold at Profiles for $60,000. Here it is and here are some well known screen used headpiece pics...
This is a statement from the seller:
I'm a student at Southampton University. My parents and grandparents all work or worked in the film industry. My grandad ran Norank Eng Co Ltd who were the resident studio engineers at Elstree Film Studios when Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark was made. They worked on the original Staff of Ra headpiece. This is NOT a screen seen original, but it isn't a replica either. I'm stressing this point as I don't want to mislead anyone.
I was given this many years ago by my grandad and he has said I can sell it now as I have finished my 1st year at Uni. Next year I move out of halls and into a shared house, so whatever I get for this goes towards that. He got this from the sculptor who made the screen used ones.
This was made by the same original maker, from the original mold, made of the same material (pewter) and finished around the edges in the same way as the original. This is NOT a lighweight resin replica, it is solid pewter with a deep 24K Gold plating, just like the screen seen original. It is the same age as it was made at the same time, the sculptor made more than one as is usual with film props. The gold plating is newer though, it was only plated a few years ago, this came from the sculptor in raw metal.
My grandads company milled out the bottom section to fit the piece they made for the top of the staff. This has also got that section milled out, showing that it was one of the original batch. Every detail matches to the one in the Archive book. It is the most accurate headpiece you will ever see, apart from the one in the Lucas archive obviously.
After it was plated it was taken back to the sculptor who added the dull red "stones". He says that the original screen seen one had amber stones, but one had opaque red stones as the color of the amber stone kept changing when filmed. He also says the one the girl wears around her neck was lightweight resin but couldn't hold enough detail for the close-ups like when the german burns his hand.
Headpiece in question...
Well known screen used Headpiece that sold for $60,000 pics...
Brad
This is a statement from the seller:
I'm a student at Southampton University. My parents and grandparents all work or worked in the film industry. My grandad ran Norank Eng Co Ltd who were the resident studio engineers at Elstree Film Studios when Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark was made. They worked on the original Staff of Ra headpiece. This is NOT a screen seen original, but it isn't a replica either. I'm stressing this point as I don't want to mislead anyone.
I was given this many years ago by my grandad and he has said I can sell it now as I have finished my 1st year at Uni. Next year I move out of halls and into a shared house, so whatever I get for this goes towards that. He got this from the sculptor who made the screen used ones.
This was made by the same original maker, from the original mold, made of the same material (pewter) and finished around the edges in the same way as the original. This is NOT a lighweight resin replica, it is solid pewter with a deep 24K Gold plating, just like the screen seen original. It is the same age as it was made at the same time, the sculptor made more than one as is usual with film props. The gold plating is newer though, it was only plated a few years ago, this came from the sculptor in raw metal.
My grandads company milled out the bottom section to fit the piece they made for the top of the staff. This has also got that section milled out, showing that it was one of the original batch. Every detail matches to the one in the Archive book. It is the most accurate headpiece you will ever see, apart from the one in the Lucas archive obviously.
After it was plated it was taken back to the sculptor who added the dull red "stones". He says that the original screen seen one had amber stones, but one had opaque red stones as the color of the amber stone kept changing when filmed. He also says the one the girl wears around her neck was lightweight resin but couldn't hold enough detail for the close-ups like when the german burns his hand.
Headpiece in question...
Well known screen used Headpiece that sold for $60,000 pics...
Brad
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