Indiana Jones' whip, Kane's Rosebud sled, 'Home Alone' snow cap going up for auction

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Many of movies’ astir sought-after props are going up for auction, including the Rosebud sled from “Citizen Kane,” Macaulay Culkin’s snowfall headdress from “Home Alone” and a whip wielded by Harrison Ford successful “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade."

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- Many of movies' astir sought-after props are going up for auction, including the Rosebud sled from “Citizen Kane,” Macaulay Culkin's knit snowfall headdress from “Home Alone” and a whip wielded by Harrison Ford during the Holy Grail trials of “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.”

The Summer Entertainment Auction being held July 15-19 by Heritage Auctions besides includes sci-fi gems from the “Star Wars” galaxy, similar a filming miniature of Luke Skywalker’s X-wing starfighter utilized successful Industrial Light & Magic’s effects enactment for “The Empire Strikes Back,” and the lightsabers brandished by Ewan McGregor’s Obi-Wan Kenobi and Hayden Christensen’s Anakin Skywalker successful “Revenge of the Sith.”

The Rosebud sled from the rubric character’s puerility sits astatine the halfway of Orson Welles’ 1941 “Citizen Kane." It's the past connection tycoon Charles Foster Kane speaks earlier his decease astatine the opening of the movie that is regarded by galore critics groups arsenic the top ever made. Long thought lost, the sled is 1 of 3 of the prop known to person survived. It's owned by “Gremlins” manager Joe Dante, who stumbled connected it erstwhile helium was filming connected the erstwhile RKO Pictures batch successful 1984. Dante wasn’t a collector, but knew the worth of the sled and softly preserved it for decades, putting it arsenic an Easter ovum into 4 of his ain films.

Ford gave the Indiana Jones whip going up for auction to then-Prince Charles astatine the 1989 U.K. premiere of “The Last Crusade.” It was fixed arsenic a acquisition to Princess Diana, who gave it to the existent owner.

“These aren’t conscionable props. They’re mythic objects,” Joe Maddalena, Heritage’s enforcement vice president, said successful a statement. "They archer the communicative of Hollywood’s top moments, 1 portion astatine a time.”

Also going up for merchantability are a bluish velvet suit that Mike Myers wore arsenic Austin Powers successful “Goldmember,” and a Citroën 2CV driven by Roger Moore arsenic James Bond successful “For Your Eyes Only,” 1 of the films Myers was parodying.

The auction besides includes indispensable artifacts from the postulation of legendary manager Cecil B. DeMille, including a promotional brace of the titular tablets from DeMille's “The Ten Commandments,” which the manager had chopped from chromatic from Mount Sinai.