If you thought the prices of day one of the LOST auction were so high no one would be back to bid on stuff for the second day…you’d be way off! A combination of many returning bidders to the floor, as well as some new ones (and of course those pesky, sniping internet bidders!) brought some of the highest netting items in the auction within mere minutes of each other on the second day.
(Check out a slideshow of LA TV Insider, Examiner's photos from the LOST auction)
Starting the day off was actually a costume contest where the winner (who came dressed as a member of DriveShaft in Butties Diapers) won the entire series of LOST on DVD. But then starting the day off right bidding-wise, Kate (Evangeline Lilly’s) season four costume from the episode “The Economist” went for $5000 to a very happy (but potentially broke) woman in the first row of the floor.
Any time the fans on the floor outbid those on the internet, the room erupted in cheers and claps. After two days sitting side by side in the Santa Monica Barker Hangar new friends were made and a camaraderie was felt all around! So much so in fact that when a gentleman bid $9000 for Locke’s suicide note just as the lot was marked closed, they debated for a minute over whether or not they could actually reopen it to give him a chance. They ended up keeping the winning internet bid of $8500, though.
Other items that sold to the floor included the polar bear collar and the nuclear core of the jughead bomb, both at $4500. Hurley’s Camaro also sold to one lucky (and wealthy) fan in the room, but we’ll get to that in a minute…
The big thing of the day was Dharma, and the fans were going all-in on everything from beer cans (a set of twelve sold for $4500) to the iconic jumpsuits (Sawyer’s LaFleur “Head of Security” netted the most at $6500 but even the generic ones brought in an average of $1400 a piece).
Taking a note from Maggie Griffin, bidders went as high as $1200 for a box of Dharma wine that was scene on screen being enjoyed by Hurley (Jorge Garcia) and Sawyer (Josh Holloway).
Juliet (Elizabeth Mitchell) and Sawyer’s quarter-full bottle of rum netted $3250.
Ben (Michael Emerson)’s personal effects were split into various lots, including one of his various aliases’ passports that went for $5000, his messenger bag and two journals that brought in $2750, and his actual passport as Ben Linus from season five that went for $2500.
There were a ton of great art pieces sold, from the Dharma map to the temple ($3500) to a collection of 160 sketches from season four ($5500) and season five ($6000), to a model of the Swan station construction site ($900), to actual collections of various Oceanic signage, including a six-foot piece, at $5500 and $2500. Even Jacob (Mark Pellegrino)'s tapestries would make beautiful wall hangings. They sold for $2000 to $8500.
Surprisingly, Hurley’s Camaro was not even in the top three for highest totals of the auction, coming in at a clean $20,000 (the plates of the Camaro went for $1200, by the way). Instead, it was the frozen donkey wheel at $25,000, Daniel Faraday’s journal at $27,500, and the Dharma van at $47,500 that took the top amounts by press time.
Examiner was in fact outbid on all of the Dharma notebooks, for those of you who were keeping your fingers crossed for me. The first lot that included the hero map Kate drew for Sun and Jin sold for $1700; a small lot of two marble ones and two white ones sold for $2500; and the lot everyone was waiting for: Hurley’s Star Wars books went for a whopping $4250.
I am still licking my wounds as I watch the end of the auction and contemplate sneaking in under the wire to obtain something from the sixth and final season and from one of the two-hundred and forty final lots! Should it be Jack's death wardrobe, Sawyer's infamous leather jacket, or maybe even the foot statue? Something tells me those will go just a teeny bit over what my pay grade allows me to spend!
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