An ultra-rare Star Wars toy bought for £1.25 in 1978 could soon fetch up to £30,000 at a Kent auction.
Expected to attract serious collectors, the vinyl cape Jawa figurine is one of only a handful in existence, made by a now-defunct British toy manufacturer.
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The distinct Palitoy Cardback model enjoyed an especially short-lived production run before the cape was soon replaced with a cloth one.
The figure is among 364 lots at C&T Auctioneers Star Wars and TV/Film Toys and Collectables sale in Ashford on May 8.
Fully sealed with a punch card, experts have valued it at between £20,000 and £30,000 and expect bids from across the world.
Making appearances in five Star Wars films, Jawas are meter-tall humanoids completely hidden behind rough, hand-woven robes.
Their faces are concealed within the dark folds of a cowl, from which peer their sickly glowing yellow eyes.
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They comb the deserts of Tatooine in search of discarded scrap and wayward mechanicals.
Using their cobbled-together weaponry, they can incapacitate droids and drag them to their treaded fortress-homes - immense sand-scarred vehicles known as sandcrawlers.
Other collectables likely to attract bidders are Thunderbird figures and toys, Action Man and WWF figures, a boxed Corgi Batmobile and James Bond Aston Martin DB5, Transformers, vintage board games and film posters.
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And among the more intriguing lots is an ‘Alien’ special effects head from Aliens 3, a fibreglass Batman (Michael Keaton) torso armour, both estimated between £1,000 and £1,500 and an ape foam latex mask from Greystoke The Legend of Tarzan Lord of the Apes, worth £100- £200.
Pre-bids are now being accepted and the auction goes live at 2pm on May 8.
For more information visit C&T Auctioneers.