Some props you picture the second someone says the movie. For a lot of us, that's Darth Vader's lightsaber — and somebody just paid a whole lot to take it home.
The final number
The lightsaber, used in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, sold Thursday for $4.875 million at Heritage Auctions' Ultimate Star Wars Auction. Heritage said that's a world auction record for any Star Wars collectible. It also topped the auction house's July sale of Luke Skywalker's lightsaber and severed hand-effects rig, which went for $3.75 million.
Not the only one on the block
The auction featured 27 other Star Wars lightsabers along with material from Episodes I through IX and additional films and TV shows.
If you could put one screen-used Star Wars prop on your shelf, which would it be?
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