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A STAR Wars action figure which is one of just three known to exist has sold for £24,500. The 3.75in plastic toy of Obi Wan Kenobi was made by Kenner in 1978.
3 Star Wars action figure which is one of just three known to exist has sold for £24,500 Credit: BNPS 3 The 3.75in plastic toy of Obi Wan Kenobi was made by Kenner in 1978 Credit: BNPS It has a double telescoping lightsaber, a two-piece weapon that emerged from the Jedi Knight’s right arm socket. The 2.
5in yellow lightsaber, not the customary blue, was later replaced with a shorter version. The figure was bought by an online bidder at Vectis Auctions in Stockton, Teesside. Specialist Peter Davis said: "This is a pre-production engineering pilot, which gives it an extreme level of rarity as we know of only three of them in existence.
Read more on Star Wars SPEED DEMON All-electric supercar dubbed ‘Batmobile meets Star Wars podracer’ unveiled POWER PLAY The most valuable trading cards including Pokemon and Star Wars "They should have a blue lightsaber but because they were messing around to see if the production process would work they rustled up a yellow lightsaber. "The original figures came with a double telescoping lightsaber but they quickly realised this was a faff so they went with one piece of plastic. "The figure first belonged to a Kenner employee who sold it when they became valuable and a Scottish reindeer farmer who also happened to be a collector bought it.
"After much persuasion, they sold it to the vendor, a collector from southern England , about three years ago." Most read in Money TRY-MENDOUS Major pub chain to give away free pints at 800 sites from TODAY BEAN AND GONE Favourite coffee shop axes plans for new store in Scots city BANK CHAOS Barclays confirms if bank customers hit by online outage will get compensation CLOSING TIME Iconic market loved for 50 years closes for good leaving shoppers devastated Batman and Star Wars memrobilia part of film and TV auction set to fetch £10 million Unlock even more award-winning articles as The Sun launches brand new membership programme - Sun Club . 3 Alec Guinness as Obi Wan, centre, with Anthony Daniels, left and Mark Hamill, right, in 1977's Star Wars.
