‘Cheers’ bar sells for $675,000 at Dallas public sale of things from traditional TV exhibits
DALLAS — The bar from the tv sequence “Cheers” bought for $675,000 at public sale over the weekend, garnering the best bid among the many almost 1,000 props, costumes and units from traditional TV exhibits supplied up from a set amassed by one man over greater than three a long time.
Heritage Auctions stated that the gadgets bought throughout its three-day occasion that wrapped up Sunday in Dallas introduced in over $5 million. James Comisar has stated that after his dream of making a museum to accommodate his assortment failed to come back collectively, it was time for the items to go to followers to get pleasure from.
“The auction’s success confirmed what I have always known: that television characters are cherished members of our extended family and that their stories and our own are inseparable,” Comisar stated in a information launch from the public sale home.
The Batman and Robin costumes worn by Adam West and Burt Ward within the Sixties tv sequence went for $615,000, whereas the set the place Johnny Carson hosted visitors on “The Tonight Show” went for $275,000, Heritage Auctions stated.
The set from “All in the Family” — which included Archie and Edith Bunker’s residing and eating rooms and stairwell — bought for $125,000, and the public sale home stated the identical purchaser additionally made the successful bid of $250,000 for the chairs utilized by the TV couple within the present’s ninth season.
The couple’s authentic two chairs from the present reside within the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History. Comisar stated that these thrift store chairs got to the museum when it was thought that the present would finish after its eighth season, however when it continued for a ninth, replicas had been made at nice price. Those replicas — which had been the chairs supplied at public sale — had been then used within the present’s final season and in its continuation, “Archie Bunker’s Place.”
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