This just shows how original C21 props move around. This Stanley Unwin puppet and Sam Loover's puppet head were sold at the famous Phillips Anderson sale in 1995 and then fourteen years later surface at Christies for sale again.
These are probably well-known props and their current whereabouts will be known to some of you. Scoop probably knows.
https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/memorabilia/secret-service-1969-5270681-details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=5270681&sid=cf834972-aeaa-42b7-b013-f4c55fab607f
https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/memorabilia/sam-loover-joe-90-1968-5270680-details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=5270680&sid=706cbfeb-4472-4f73-aa36-76872a9110f1
Symphony Angel's puppet head turned up a few year later after a similar journey. Why does it say sold without copyright for an old prop?
https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot/captain-scarlet-1395443-details.aspx?from=searchresults&intObjectID=1395443&sid=fdc041a2-7577-4a52-b277-e891e9df1f12
Thankfully a lot of these props turn up on display at various events like the Leicester one I went to the other week and blogged about. If you know where to look things like this do come up, mainly for those with deep pockets of course. A rifle seen in the UFO episode, Kill Straker was sold at auction not so long back for over seven grand, and at a more recent auction someone bought both of The Investigator vehicles.
ReplyDeleteI think the 'sold without copyright' term means you just own the prop and have no licence over it.
Thanks scoop. I thought youd know. Fascinating what has survived and sold at auction. I wonder it props get sold on a lot or do they tend to stay with one owner once bought?
DeleteSome certainly get sold on occasionally, and quite a few owners, even those who are kind enough to display them prefer to remain anonymous to the general public. I suspect the fact that the later puppets have survived is that they were used for the last of the Supermarionation series, whereas the earlier ones where mostly skipped as they were no longer used. Alan Shubrook rescued an original Scott Tracy from the skip and had it for many years, before finally selling it for an undisclosed sum to director, Peter Jackson.
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