'Star Wars' Toys Left To Couple By Neighbour Turned Out To Be Worth Rs 3 Crore

A British couple has thanked their lucky stars after a garage full of bin bags they inherited from a dead neighbour yielded a trove of Star Wars toys worth Rs 3 crore.

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The couple, from Stourbridge in central England, was initially unsure what to make of the jumble of dolls and spacecraft their neighbour had spent decades collecting, The Times newspaper reported.

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Specialist Chris Aston, of Aston¡¯s Auctioneers, said most of the action figures were still in their sealed boxes and in pristine condition.

Mr Aston said: ¡®The Star Destroyer Commander is one of only two that are known of and the Jawa figure is the holy grail for collectors.¡¯

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"A lot of them were a bit damp because of how they've been stored but generally it's the best Star Wars collection I've ever seen," Chris Aston of Aston's Auctioneers, told The Times.

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"We had a huge amount of interest from all over the world and were always expecting the sale to do very well," Aston said of the auction.

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Going under the hammer was a Star Destroyer Commander, one of only two known examples still to be in its original packaging, which sold for ?32,500 ($42,000) including fees, the Times said.

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From Storm Trooper helmets to R2D2's eye, memorabilia from one of the world's biggest movie franchises can fetch eye-watering sums at auctions.

In 2015, a Luke Skywalker doll, which hit the market in 1978 as a children's toy, sold for $25,000 at an auction organised by Sotheby's and eBay.