Mike Hanlon writing at New Atlas takes a look at the history of the DL-44 blaster at auction, a history that see’s three of Han Solo’s favourite blasters sit in the top 20 most expensive movie weapons list with the latest example from the 1977 original selling at the recent Rock Island Auction for an incredible $1,057,500, over $400,000 more than Captain Kirks Laser Rifle from Star Trek.
The original and sole remaining Blastech DL-44 Blaster used by Han Solo (Harrison Ford) in the first 1977 Star Wars movie (Star Wars: A New Hope) has sold for a record US$1,057,500 at Rock Island Auctions.
The sale represents a new record for a movie weapon, eclipsing the $615,000 paid last November for the Laser Rifle used by Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) in the ground-breaking Star Trek TV Series, another Han Solo DL-44 from “Return of the Jedi” ($562,500), John Wayne’s Colt Revolver used in “The Cowboys,” “True Grit” and “Rooster Cogburn” ($517,000) and Luke Skywalker’s Lightsaber ($450,000), also from the original Star Wars movie, “Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope.”
There are now three Han Solo (Harrison Ford) DL-44s in the top 20 most expensive movie weapons, but there are actually four weapons screen-used by Harrison Ford in the top 20. The fourth is the Blaster used in the Ridley Scott science fiction movie “Blade Runner” (1982). Playing Rick Deckard, Harrison Ford used the “Blaster” in his role as the “blade runner” who tracks down and kills humanoid “replicants.” The Blaster was sold at auction in 2009 for $270,000, becoming the most expensive movie weapon sold to that point in time.
The full article is well worth a read as it details the long history of screen weapons at auction.
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