Rose Buds sell for $14.75 million – History Blog

Rosebud is the iconic red sled named Charles Foster Kane, who last called Orson Welles’ 1941 film masterpiece Citizen Kane, auctioned for $14.75 million. It’s the second most expensive object for a movie souvenir, behind the pair of ruby slippers from the Wizard of Oz, which sold for $32.5 million last year.

According to Orson Welles, only three Balsamu Rose Books are made in the final scene of the movie when Kane lost innocence and joy are thrown into the stove. Balsa was chosen as the incineration scene because it is lightweight and burns quickly, which makes it easy to preserve for a long time. Of these three manufacturing, only one survived. Steven Spielberg bought it at Sotheby’s in 1982 for $60,500.

Fourteen years later, the second rosebud appears at auction, but it is a heavier pine role model, making one for the early scenes of Charles Foster Kane, a little boy playing sled in a sled, and banker Walter Walter Thatcher tear apart his beloved mother in the snow and his happy poverty, making his poverty a huge affluence and greater loneliness and greater loneliness. Rosbud was eventually awarded by RKO Pictures in 1942. The winner is the 12-year-old movie Buff Arthur Bauer. He kept it for 50 years and then auctioned it at Christie’s in 1996. It was sold to anonymous buyers for $233,500.

Spielberg’s Balsa Rosebud and Bauer Pine Rosebud are the only two other confirmed real props in the film. The man who just blows out the price from the water has his own cinematic history. In 1984, Gremlins director Joe Dante rediscovered it while shooting explorers in Paramount Lot. A crew member who cleaned the old storage room found it and provided it to the director without realizing what treasure it was. Joe Dante conservatism, analysis and radiocarbon conservatism, traces back to the authentication of it. Scientific reports confirm that it is made from pine trees that match the Ball sled and that the paint is matched with Spielberg and Ball sleds. Dante’s Rosebud has two other lacking characteristics: a rope that passes through the runner and may be used to hang it in storage.

Dante is a well-known director called by Gremlins and how, not an avid collector, but he certainly recognizes the importance of sleds, and he has quietly preserved it for decades, even putting it in four of his own films as Easter eggs (Easter eggs). Scientific tests confirm the cyclical authenticity of the sled, which, like others, has signs of production use, including raw paint, worn and removed tracks, probably sacrificed on wartime waste drives. Rosebud is not only a prop – it is a movie legend, rescued by a beloved filmmaker and is now back in the spotlight.