With the Lost saga over, ABC auctioned off the show’s props at the weekend, and raked in an awful lot of money in the process…
With the mysterious island adventures of Lost well and truly over, a two day auction held at the weekend gave fans a chance to bid on the series' back catalogue of props.
The auction contained all manner of memorabilia, gradually accumulated over Lost's six season run, ranging from the very small (Kate's toy plane) to the very large (a Dharma Volkswagen Campervan).
Held in California, but open to international bidders via telephone and online, the entire lot of Lost items sold for more than $1.8 million, with even the most incidental pieces of ephemera going for four figure sums. Remember the brief scene in which Sawyer sat reading a well thumbed copy of Watership Down? That very paperback could have been yours for $3,300.
Other items included Charlie's Drive Shaft ring (sold for a princely $9,000), John Locke's suicide note (another $9,000), and Hurley's winning lottery ticket ($5,500).
Lost's larger props were the most keenly sought after, with Hurley's 1970s Camaro fetching $24,000, and the ‘Frozen Donkey Wheel' (first seen in There's No Place Like Home, Part 2) went for a shade more at $25,000.
The show's biggest earner proved to be the blue Dharma Campervan mentioned earlier, which fetched a whopping $47,500.
For dedicated Lost fans, the official auction represented the final break-up of a six year love affair, and it's unsurprising that so many people were anxious to grab a piece of the show's history.