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October 07, 2006
Starship Enterprise fetches $770,000 (ABC News)
The Enterprise top lot has garnered one of the highest prices ever paid for any piece of Hollywood memorabilia and set a record for a piece of Star Trek memorabilia.
The 198-centimetre model of the Starship Enterprise-D, used extensively in the Star Trek: The Next Generation television series, has sold for 20 times the predicted sale price.
It was bought by a determined, unidentified private American collector bidding via telephone. -Reuters
[I thought for a moment that bidder on the phone might be Dennis G. Jerz, an undergraduate mentor and friend of mine, but then I remember he chose Kirk over Picard =) BK]
Posted by kuechebj at October 7, 2006 11:01 PM
Comments
LOL! I hate those spam emails as well, but I thought you might get a kick out of my Trek-related post.
Posted by: Bobby Kuechenmeister at October 10, 2006 09:02 PM
Maybe I'd have had that kind of money if I had accepted a business proposition from THE ELDEST SON OF THE RECENTLY DEPOSED KING OF NIGERIA, but since I turned down the offer, I was unable to bid at all.
Posted by: Dennis G. Jerz at October 10, 2006 07:49 PM