4 stories
$525,000
Toys & Collectibles
The Boba Fett that kids actually received couldn't fire its rocket. The ones that could were prototypes that never reached stores, and in 2024 one of them briefly became the most valuable vintage toy ever sold.
$254,500
Toys & Collectibles
A worn Olivetti bought in a Knoxville pawnshop for $50 sold for nearly 13 times its top estimate. The machine mattered less than the letter its owner typed on it.
$217.77
Toys & Collectibles
In 1976, a lot of used NASA magnetic tape went under the hammer at a government surplus sale in Houston. Three of the reels held the first moonwalk, and 43 years later they sold for more than 8,000 times what the whole lot had cost.
$108,000
Toys & Collectibles
The first design for Coke's famous bottle was a little too wide for bottlers' machines. A prototype of the slimmed-down version, the shape everyone knows, sold for $108,000.
