A number of puppets that appeared in Jim Henson’s iconic TV sequence “Fraggle Rock” offered for over $50,000 at public sale on Tuesday.
The relics from the legendary puppeteer’s present — which ran from 1983 by means of 1987 — included full-body variations of Uncle “Traveling” Matt (which offered for $64,000), Gillis Fraggle ($64,000) and Aunt Granny ($51,200) puppets in addition to a smaller Doozer puppet ($57,600).
Over 400 items, together with greater than 80 handmade puppets, have been pulled from The Jim Henson Firm’s archives forward of the public sale, in keeping with Julien’s Auctions web site.
Different one-of-a-kind gadgets that offered to collectors and followers included a prop map from the 1996 movie “Muppet Treasure Island” (offered for $38,400), “Glig” puppets from one in all Henson’s early “Saturday Night Live” work ($25,600) and a pair of Miss Piggy’s sneakers from the 1981 movie “The Great Muppet Caper” ($22,400).
PAULA RAMON through Getty Photos
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Roy Parker-Saladino, a popular culture specialist with Julien’s Auctions, instructed CBS Information that the public sale was “very historic” as The Jim Henson Firm — which the puppeteer based together with his spouse, Jane Henson, again in 1958 — had by no means offered something in its 70-year historical past. (Jim Henson died in 1990.)
“What makes these pieces so special is that Jim Henson had to imagine them and then they had to give them to people who had to make them by hand,” Parker-Saladino stated.
CBS Information’ Carter Evans famous that the gadgets are “just a fraction” of the tens of hundreds of things within the Henson archives.
Lisa Henson, who serves as president and CEO of her late father’s firm, instructed The New York Occasions final week that the public sale left some followers involved and questioning whether or not the gadgets must be in a museum.
“Our 70th anniversary was really the kicking-off point of the auction. We’ve been trying to find touch points where fans could connect with the company,” stated Henson, who pointed to the corporate’s museum partnerships.
