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ORm elderly couple “won the lottery” after a collection of toys from the ‘Star Wars’, which a neighbor bequeathed, was sold at auction for 400 thousand pounds (about 446 thousand euros).
Or by StourbridgeIn the West Midlands, England, he had no idea what a ‘treasure’ of plastic figures and spaceships his friend had left them, says the Times.
Peter Simpson had spent several decades collect the toys and decided leave–the to his lifelong neighbors after his death in December last year.
It was the couple’s son who had the idea of calling an auction house to find out the value of the belongings, among which there were still pieces in the original boxes.
“Some were slightly damp from the way they had been stored, but it is the collection the most beautiful of objects of ‘Star Wars’ I’ve seen, “admitted Chris Aston, an expert at Aston’s Auctioneers, to the newspaper. britdwarf. “We received expressions of interest from all over the world and we were confident that the sale would be a success,” he added.
According to Chris, the couple were “delighted” with their luck: “I don’t know if they had an idea in their heads, but they must have the feeling of having won the lottery.”
Between the articles for sale there was a group of eight dolls inspired by the movie ‘Return of the Jedi’ that had cost the collector under two pounds in the early 1980s and sold for £ 1,400 (€ 1,563).
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