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"Lost" Auction Brought In $1.8 Million

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Fans of the television show "Lost" demonstrated their fandom with their wallets over the weekend. The auction held by Profiles in History at Santa Monica's Barker Hangar drew eager bids who snapped up everything from a $5,000 12-pack of Dharma Initiative beer to a $47,500 blue Volkswagen Dharma van. The Wall Street Journal reports that the amount of bidders was so big that Saturday's sale ran until midnight because each item took longer to sell. The sale netted $900,000 on Saturday according to the NY Times. Associated Content says that the total for the two-day event was $1.8 million (an unofficial calculation made by LostARGS.com). According to their data available in downloadable PDF files, one of the sets of three Oceanic airline seats shown above sold for $2,250.

Other items that sold for large amounts included Daniel Faraday's journal for $27,500, Hurley's Camaro for $25,000, a copy of the pilot script, signed by J.J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof for $15,000 and the fail-safe key turned by Desmond Hume for $11,000.

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Most Coveted Items From The 'Lost' Auction

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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When a television show ends there are a lot of props. Some get used for other shows but many get sold off. After ABC's television show "Lost" had its finale last spring, there were plenty of items that were suddenly no longer needed. Hollywood props and memorabilia auctioneer Profiles in History is helping ABC Studios to auction off costumes, props and various set pieces from the show in a massive two-day auction event at the the Barker Hanger at Santa Monica Airport on August 21 and 22. Over 1,000 items are being auctioned off from costumes, to Volkswagen vans to pieces of Oceanic Flight 815 like the airplane chairs shown above. Our sister blog TV Squad rounded up the top ten most covetable items including Hurley's winning lottery ticket and Camaro and the 'Lost' finale script signed by the executive producers.

There has been some controversy over certain auction items and whether or not they were used on screen. The Prop Blog has been covering this topic extensively breaking down some of the terminology. A screen-used prop is one that appears and is seen clearly on screen. These props are most valuable. Other props can be "production-made" which means that they were made for the show but didn't necessarily appear on screen. These props are less valuable. Most valuable are the "hero props" which are scene specific. Other types of props include back-ups, stunt props and double props. If you are just buying for your own enjoyment you don't really need to know the difference, except to make sure you don't pay too much, but for later resale these distinctions are key.

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