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From the Vault: Han Solo's DL44 Heavy Blaster Pistol

Ролик о проданном недавно пистолете их х/ф "Звёздные Войны" ("Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope"). Mauser C96 переделанный для кинофильма был продан за $1.057.500,00 (без учёта комиссии и налога).

Some of the most famous guns never really existed or existed only as movie props. Keith, Steve, and Caleb are at Rock Island Auction Co. to show us one of the.... scratch that, THE most famous laser guns of all time, Han Solo's DL44 Heavy Blaster Pistol from Star Wars. It somehow found its way to Rock Island through a temporary anomaly in the space-time continuum.
Caleb fills us in on the Blaster's history. They were manufactured by a company called BlasTech during the Republic era, but the Empire banned them because they could penetrate Storm Trooper armor. The maximum effective range for penetrating the armor is only about 75 meters. Power is generated by power cells that produce about 50 shots each using a mixture of electricity and gas. Caleb explains the Galvan circuitry that generates the "bolt" of laser energy the Blaster.... well, blasts. A vibrator in the grip warns the shooter when he has about 5 bolts left.
After the Empire seized power, Blasters continued to be manufactured on the QT in the Outer Rim. A lesson, says Keith, that gun control doesn't work in far, far away galaxies either. Han Solo was given his Blaster by Tobias Beckett, who originally acquired it as a carbine but extensively modded it into a pistol. This is the exact gun Darth Vader took from Solo at the Sky City, and it was recovered from Vader's personal residence after his death. Well, actually, he's not exactly "dead" dead - Keith explains. This is also the gun Solo blasted Greedo with at the cantina. Keith assures us Solo fired first (sorry, George Lucas).
The DL44 looks suspiciously like a modified Mauser Broomhandle pistol. Could the Mauser have been modeled after it? Maybe an interstellar visitor left a DL44 behind after helping the Egyptians build the pyramids? The sighting device looks like a simple single-power rifle scope from mid-20th century Earth in the remote, unfashionable Milky Way Galaxy.
Look, the universe is a rough place. If you want to live long and prosper, keep your Blaster by your side at all times, and make sure you know where your towel is.
Serious Final Note: Rock Island's DL44 Heavy Blaster is thought to be one of only THREE surviving examples used in the filming of "Star Wars"..... (OK, fine) "Star Wars: A New Hope" in 1977. Pre-auction estimates suggested it would sell for $300,000 to $500,000. According to a local TV news report, it sold for $1,057,500.

Вообще нужно отдать должное. Пистолет с одной стороны действительно смотрится как бластер, с другой стороны переделка выглядит гармонично, как будто его изготовили именно таким - нет ничего инородного в переделке.

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"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... or rather, London in the mid-1970s, production of prop weapons for a little known and quite under-funded science fiction fantasy movie, dreamt up by George Lucas, had just begun. Released in 1977, the movie would eventually come to be known as "Star Wars" or "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope", kicking off a franchise that would go on to garner a cult following unlike anything the film industry had ever seen. Much of Lucas' vision for Star Wars was based around the characters, gear, vehicles, and settings being believable, a concept he often called "used future". The "used future" concept he envisioned relied heavily on the equipment the characters used and the vehicles they traveled in having a "lived in" or well-used appearance, a concept that had previously been almost entirely absent from the often "over-polished" and "over-sanitized" genre of science fiction. This drive to create a more grimy sci-fi world paired with quite limited initial funding led to some interesting solutions in the prop department, especially when it came to the weapons that would be used in filming. This specific pistol is a prime example of that resourcefulness, combining components from multiple different readily available surplus weapons. One of the more important developments in creating the perfect aesthetic for Star Wars came early on in the process through work between Lucas, Roger Christian the set decorator, and John Barry the production designer, a development which would come to be known as "greebles". The term "greebles" came to represent all the small mechanical looking parts that littered the surfaces and interiors of spacecraft and models in the first film and its successors, a concept which also carried over into hand held props and costume design. Many of the "greebles" for set construction either came from the purchase of scrapped and disassembled aircraft parts, which were well within the production's meager budget, or through disassembled, mixed, and matched toy model kits when building scale models for filming. This budget minded, "one man's trash is another's treasure" sort of attitude was equally applied when designing the personal weapons to be carried by the film's main protagonists. The production teamed up with Bapty & Co., a London based prop house, to provide all of the prop weapons for the film. Due to the limited time and budget available for production it was eventually decided to use as many existing items as possible, especially things such as readily available surplus firearms which could be modified with accessories and "greebles" to become almost unrecognizable when on screen. Examples of this can be seen throughout Star Wars such as the BlasTech E-11 blasters carried by most Stormtroopers, which were modified Sterling L2A3 submachine guns. Then there was the BlasTech DLT-19 Heavy Blaster Rifle, also carried by the Emperor's finest, which is a modified MG34 machine gun. Yet another example was a modified Lewis gun, which became the BlasTech T-21, preferred by those looking to turn Rebel scum into Swiss cheese with a rapid-fire blaster. Perhaps the most iconic surplus firearms used as props in the movie however was the Mauser C96 pistol or "Broomhandle" Mauser, which would not only become the Merr-Sonn Munitions, Inc. Model 44 blaster carried by many Imperial officers, but also the iconic BlasTech DL-44 heavy blaster pistol carried by the stuck up, half-witted, scruffy-looking, Nerf-herder himself, Han Solo. Three Mauser C96 pistols were originally modified into DL-44 blasters for the film, with only one functional scope which was switched between the three depending on the detail needed in specific shots. One of the first close glimpses of one of the blasters is in the famous "Cantina" standoff scene between Solo and the bounty hunter Greedo. The DL-44 sees further action in the shootout during the escape of Mos Eisley. This specific pistol is documented by Tony Watts, who acquired Bapty & Co. and its stock in 2000, as well as by Carl Schmidt, the lead armorer for the film, as one of the three original DL-44 heavy blasters made for Star Wars: Episode IV, and the only surviving example. After filming of "A New Hope" had concluded, the three DL-44 blasters were returned to near their original "Broomhandle" configuration for use in other films by the prop company, their future importance to both the film and Star Wars community all but unknown at the time. The story of this specific DL-44 blaster, like many such legendary movie props, is complicated, and is perhaps best told by those who oringally made it and later re-discovered it. Below is presented the partial text from the included letter from Tony Watts, the owner and managing director of Bapty & Co. from 2000-2020, in which he describes the original design and development of the pistols for "A New Hope", as well as how this specific example came to be: "When I acquired the stock of Bapty & Co. in the year 2000 I had little knowledge of this film. It was only when a film memorabilia company bought the last of our prop Sterlings and other known pieces from ‘Star Wars’ that the question of what happened to the Han Solo blaster awakened my interest. I asked Carl Schmidt, who was the lead armorer on the film, what the true history was. As often the case the reality is something more complicated and sometimes much simpler than ever imagined, confounded with a near fifty-year memory gap. In liaison with the production company’s Art Department it was decided to use a Mauser C96 pistol with a vintage German Hensoldt scope, the scope having been used previously on a Frank Sinatra film amongst others, and an added MG81 flash hider on a cut down barrel for the Han Solo pistol. The Production wanted real blank firing guns for the action scenes to help with synchronisation of special effects and to aid actors in their reactions. As is standard practice on a film set, more than one firearm is required for filming. Between Second Unit and stunt double needs, publicity requirements and spares in case of malfunction with blank-firing conversions during filming, extra guns are always necessary and present. Initially two pistols were prepared and as filming progressed a third was created as production requirements increased. There was only ever one genuine scope and mount which was transferred to which ever pistol was in closeup. Dummy scopes and mounts were used when required. All three C96 pistols were taken from Bapty & Co. stock and, being hand crafted, had minor differences and marks, the details of which are now lost in time. Now what became of all this after filming. Due to restrictive firearms laws in the UK, the guns were stripped back to their original condition with added lugs cut off, barrel extensions (blank firing only) or moderators added and refinished for use in future films. The importance of ‘Star Wars’ or these items used in the film not being recognised at the time. Fast forward to 2010, and after constant badgering from myself, Carl Schmidt proudly came to me with the original Hensoldt-Wetzlar ‘Ziel Dialyt 3x’ scope he had found in one of the multitude of Bapty & Co. oddments boxes. Then in 2018 he made my year by discovering the remains of the original scope mount in the bottom of one of his parts chests. Sadly it was only the upper two-thirds of the mount as the base had been cut off sometime in the intervening years. Now my attention was spent in looking at our remaining stock of C96 Mauser pistols. Many had been lost in a government hand-in scheme in 1997 but we still possessed five much worn and abused complete C96 pistols. Four had their original length barrels but one, serial number 299415, had a re-lengthened barrel and faint witness marks on the side which had been linnished and re-coloured. This was undoubtably one of the three original guns used on the 1977 ‘Star Wars’ set and the only one to survive. Now for my own personal satisfaction I asked Carl, although retired, if he was prepared to return to Bapty and rebuild what he had helped create all those years earlier and he agreed but with the proviso that he would only re-assemble the parts we had in the spirit of how they were originally put together. A flash hider was taken from our MG81 spares box, given their rarity feasibly the same one as used in 1977, and he got to work. The base of the scope mount in 1977 was possibly a complicated slide on dovetail but it was decided not to try and replicate that as the exact detail has been forgotten and just create speculation amongst ‘Stars Wars’ enthusiasts. Also the gizmos and small pieces glued on by the Art Department to make the C96 look suitably futuristic have not been replaced, even though replica parts are available, for the sake of purity. Whilst not being in the exact form seen by millions in the film, the end result contains 80% of the last remaining pieces of this iconic prop." The pistol itself shows many of the original markings of the Mauser C96 pistol which it is based upon, including the the partial two-line Waffenfabrik Mauser address visible on either side of the rear scope base lug, a "crown/gothic letter" proof on the right of the chamber, and the partial serial number, "9415", over "crown/crown/U" proof on the left of the chamber. The full serial number "299415" is marked twice on the rear, and "212" can be seen very faintly on the rear of the hammer. It retains the original rear tangent sight graduated from 50-1000. It has been fitted with a sleeve over the original barrel to create a more substantial profile and has been setup to fire 9mm blanks with a threaded lug, numbered "415" to the gun, for attachment of the MG81 flash hider which is held in place by a set screw on the bottom. The lower scope base is marked "ZF 2602ii" on the interior and has a serrated set screw retaining the upper portion of the the base/rings. The scope is marked "HENSOLDT WETZLAR/ZIEL DIALYT 3x" on the right of the tube and "976l" on the right of the adjustment dial base. The adjustment dial is graduated 1-10 on top. The left side of the scope tube is marked "GW.No.2602ii", with the "ii" obscured by the front scope ring. The serrated grips are both stamped "280" internally. As stated in the letter from Tony Watts, the pistol lacks many of the small "greeble" details that were attached later for filming, and have likely been lost to time. Also includes a BATFE letter stating, "Based on the provided information, it appears the submitted pistol was modified for use as a prop in the 1977 film 'Star Wars' by Harrison Ford's character Han Solo. The submitted Mauser C96 pistol derives a substantial part of its monetary value from its connection to the 'Star Wars' film" and approved it for importation by a licensed importer." Includes a Han Solo photograph signed by Harrison Ford. There has been as much endless speculation regarding the configuration, whereabouts, and condition of the original three DL-44 heavy blasters used in the promotion and filming of "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope" as there has been about whether "Han shot first" (he did), with this being the only surviving example this is an opportunity you don't want to miss! Provenance: Bapty & Co. London

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Arguably the most iconic movie firearm of all time, it remains in fine overall condition and is converted to a non firing for blanks only. Do not miss this opportunity to own the only surviving example of the DL-44 Heavy Blaster used by Han Solo in "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope", because we all know... Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid.

Другой кино реквизит, вернее пара, выставленный на аукционе RIA - два пистолета Heckler & Koch USP 9 Match из кинофильма "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" с ориентировочной ценой $25.000, - $45.000,00 были проданы за $35.250,00 (без учёта комисии аукционному дому и налога) -

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This iconic pair of Heckler & Koch USP 9 Match pistols are identified and documented by Tony Watts the former owner and Managing Director of Bapty & Co., the famous London based speciality prop house as having been modified and used for filming in the 2001 movie "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" starring Angelina Jolie, an adaptation of the legendary video game, "Tomb Raider". This pair of pistols can be seen carried by Angelina Jolie as she portrays Lara Croft, including in the opening fight/training sequence of the movie in which Lara fights the robot Simon, which also highlights the two main modifications done to these pistols, allowing Jolie to duel wield, fire, and reload and release the slides with a pistol in each hand using magazines attached to her belt and the added ambidextrous slide releases. Due to the popularity of the Lara Croft character through video games and film, this pair of pistols have easily become one of the most iconic and easily recognizable pairs in recent pop culture, and become even more desirable as the only true pair of "hero" pistols used in the film. The included letter of provenance from Tony Watts, who purchased Bapty & Co. in 2000, best explains the story of these two pistols, and is presented in full as follows: "These two Heckler & Koch USP Match pistols, serial numbers 24-063928 and 24-063929, were the main "Hero" pistols rented by Bapty & Co. for use by the Lara Croft character in the 2001 production of the film ‘Tomb Raider’. When the production’s Art Department first visited Bapty in the per-production period for the film initial discussions focused on IMI Desert Eagle pistols being needed for the Lara Croft character. On handling Desert Eagles it was realized that the sheer size and weight of that particular pistol would prove to be too much of a handful for the action sequences the story entailed. After several options had been considered, a brace of Heckler & Koch USP Match pistols that Bapty & Co. had recently purchased were selected. With these pistols there was the possibility of replacing the heavy metal barrel weights with rubber versions to help with stunts without compromising the look when required. Due to a famous action sequence where Lara had to fire with a pistol in each hand until empty and with the slide held back, eject the spent magazines and then drop onto a fresh pair of magazines on her belt, we had to modify this pair of pistols. A pair of ‘Jet’ funnels were purchased for the base of the grip to help guide in the fresh magazines from the belt and we manufactured custom made ambidextrous slide releases to enable the dropping of the slides for firing to continue after Lara’s reload. As is standard practice on a film set, more than one set of pistols is required for filming. Between Second Unit and stunt double needs, publicity requirements and spares in case of malfunction with blank-firing conversions during filming, extra guns are always necessary and present. Therefore the production was able to purchase three extra standard pairs of USP Match pistols directly from the manufacturer and retained ownership of these after filming finished for use in future sequels. However, this pair will always be the main ‘Hero’ weapons from this iconic 2001 film and the only ones with the unique ambidextrous slide releases." The pistols themselves are consecutively serialized and were both manufactured in 2000, with standard Heckler & Koch markings overall including "AA" date codes (2000) on the lower left edge of the slides. The H&K addresses are partially covered on the right of the frames by in the installation of the ambidextrous slide releases. They are each fitted with tall blade front sights, adjustable notch rear sights, ambidextrous thumb safeties, ambidextrous magazine releases, and the standard steel barrel weights that are marked "Match" on the left side. They both have barrels installed that are suitable for firing blanks only. In addition to that, as stated above, both pistols have been fitted with a custom extended slide release on the right side of the frame, making both ambidextrous, these are stamped with the number "84" on the "A" pistol, and "43" on the "B" pistol. Incidentally, due to this pair of pistols being the only pair used in filming to receive these easily identifiable features, it is often very easy to spot exactly which scenes in the film they were used. They have also been fitted with extended beveled magazine wells, referred to as "jet funnels" above, for ease of loading during action sequences. Includes a Lara Croft photograph signed by Angelina Jolie. Provenance: Bapty & Co. London"

A. Rating Definition:
Excellent overall. Mechanically fine as configured to fire blanks only. Whether through video games or film, millions of people around the world have come to love the character Lara Croft and the Tomb Raider story, making this pair of pistols, carried and used by the actress playing the heroine herself extremely desirable. Do not miss this opportunity to own one of pop cultures most famous braces of pistols, Lara Croft's H&Ks!

B. Rating Definition:
Excellent, the slide showing a mostly bright finish with a few scattered light handling marks overall, typical of on film use including stunts. The barrel weight retains much of the black finish with wear consistent with being holstered and used by Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft during filming. Mechanically remains excellent as configured to fire blanks only. Do not miss this opportunity to own one of the most iconic pairs of pistols in film history, Lara Croft's brace of H&K USP 9 Match pistols!

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