{"id":51437,"date":"2026-11-13T22:34:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T21:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/13\/darth-vaders-actual-lightsaber-just-sold-for-4-875-million-breaking-star-wars-auction-records\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T22:34:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T21:34:52","slug":"darth-vaders-actual-lightsaber-just-sold-for-4-875-million-breaking-star-wars-auction-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/13\/darth-vaders-actual-lightsaber-just-sold-for-4-875-million-breaking-star-wars-auction-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Darth Vader’s Actual Lightsaber Just Sold for $4.875 Million, Breaking Star Wars Auction Records"},"content":{"rendered":"

A prop lightsaber wielded by Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy has just sold at auction for almost $5 million. <\/p>\n

This is the most amount of money a Star Wars prop has ever sold for, and it\u2019s easy to see why. The lightsaber was featured in The Empire Strikes Back<\/a> \u2014 largely seen as the best of the bunch \u2014 and Return of the Jedi<\/a>, making it at least 46 years old.<\/p>\n

As reported by The Guardian<\/a>, the sale was done through Heritage Auctions<\/a>, and sold for $4.875 million. The eye-watering figure beat the previous overall record of $3,875,000, which Heritage achieved with Tom Jung\u2019s original half-sheet key poster painting for Star Wars: Episode IV \u2013 A New Hope. It also eclipsed the previous record for a screen-used Star Wars prop: Heritage\u2019s $3,750,000 sale of Luke Skywalker\u2019s lightsaber and severed hand effects rig on July 15, 2026.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Darth Vader’s original lightsaber. Image credit: Heritage Auctions.<\/p>\n

“Vader\u2019s lightsaber is an artifact from the very heart of the saga, and its result led a historic auction,” Joe Maddalena, Heritage\u2019s Executive Vice President,<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0More Info >>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A prop lightsaber wielded by Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy has just sold at auction for almost $5 million. This is the most amount of money a Star Wars prop has ever sold for, and it\u2019s easy to see why. The lightsaber was featured in The Empire Strikes Back \u2014 largely seen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":51438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-51437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-moviestv","tag-mixtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}