ONE of the world’s finest collections of vintage Star Wars toys has sold for almost £1.2million.
Jeff Jacob spent 33 years amassing virtually every figure, spaceship, vehicle and play set from the franchise.
One of the world’s finest collections of vintage Star Wars toys has sold for almost £1.2million, pictured Boba Fett figure that sold for £22,100[/caption]
Darth Vader’s Tie Fighter ship went for £8,100[/caption]
The collection included more than 300 mint condition figures, including a rare Obi Wan Kenobi toy with a double extending lightsaber — a design quickly scrapped — which made £85,500.
An R2-D2 figure from 1978 made by Kenner with an “unpunched” card — meaning it was never placed on a shop display peg — went for £31,600.
And another unpunched 1979 Boba Fett figure sold for £22,100.
Darth Vader’s Tie Fighter ship went for £8,100 and a Cantina play set fetched £22,100.
Another standout lot was a rare version of Return of the Jedi bounty hunter character 4-LOM.
It is one of just four known examples and took Jeff 20 years to source, selling at auction for £15,400.
And a mint condition 1983 Millennium Falcon, still in its original box, made £7,400.
Construction worker Jeff, from Denver, Colorado, displayed his collection in glass cabinets throughout his house.
He now plans to spend his profits on building a new home.
Kelly McClain, from Hake’s auction house in Pennsylvania, USA, which conducted the sale, said: “This was the most significant and important Star Wars and action figure collection to come to auction.”
£8.7 million on Jeff’s axes
GUITAR great Jeff Beck’s music gear has sold for £8.73million at auction — more than eight times the pre-sale estimate.
Some 130 guitars along with amps and pedals from his six-decade career went under the hammer.
A 1954 Gibson Les Paul, which featured on the cover of his 1975 album Blow by Blow, sold for a whopping £1.06million.
Beck’s wife Sandra said: “I am so happy his guitars have been so popular.”
The guitarist, who rose to fame as a member of The Yardbirds in the ’60s, died aged 78 in 2023.
