Titanic ‘door’ prop that kept Rose alive sells for $718,750
In a 2012 episode of Mythbusters, Titanic director James Cameron revealed he receives dozens of emails a day calling Rose “seOther props featured in the auction included the whip from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, which sold for $525,000.
A Spiderman suit worn by Toby Maguire sold for $125,000, while an axe used by Jack Nicholson in The Shining to hack through a bathroom door while announcing “Here’s Johnny!” attracted the same amount.
The auction, which ended on Sunday evening, raised $15.68m, making it one of the most successful sales of a prop and costume collection, Heritage Auctions said.
“There were countless bidding wars… so many we lost track,” Joseph Maddalena, of Heritage, said.
lfish” and Jack an “idiot” over the scene.
“Maybe we screwed up and the board should have been a tiny bit smaller, but the dude’s going down,” he said.
The prop, often mistaken for a door, was based on a complete piece of debris salvaged from the 1912 tragedy, according to auctioneers Heritage Auctions.
And addressing the debate over whether the panel could have accommodate both, the listing states: “The prop measures approx. 8′ long (2.4m) and 41″ (1m) wide.”