Sylvester Stallone is alive and well and so are his collectibles. Julien’s Auctions will sell property from the life and career of Sylvester Stallone December 5th 2021 in Beverly Hills, California. Several of the original Rocky films’ props reside in the Smithsonian Institute.
Many items of the same caliber will be available with estimates ranging in the thousands to tens of thousands of dollars.
If you’ve ever had the urge to act out the scene in Rambo where Stallone’s character is hitchhiking in the Pacific Northwest, this auction can get that very duffel bag to sling over your shoulder. The duffel bag from Rambo: First Blood is stenciled J.Rambo and is estimated to fetch between $6,000.00 to $8,000.00.
Also from Rambo, the cross he wore as the misunderstood misfit coping with trauma from his experience in Vietnam is estimated to sell between $1,000.00 to $2,000.00. Personal collection is a great description of these movie items because the collector can even own a used boxing mouth guard worn by the actor in the original 1976 film is estimated between $6,000.00 to $8,000.00. Sylvester Stallone signed “John Rambo” sweatshirt display from Rambo: First Blood, which is estimated to sell between $10,000.00 to $20,000.00.
Collectors Dashboard evaluates collectibles as an alternative asset class. This means collectibles are attracting the same capital that could have been invested into stocks or bonds. Many collectibles now cost thousands of dollars (or much more). Collectors with a passion to own a collectible for years frequently have to compete directly against investors whose only desire is to make a profit in the future.
Perhaps most exciting and iconic are boxing gloves from the Rocky films. There are multiple in this auction. A serious collector of the film franchise or the actor must own a pair. Gloves available on December 5th include the pair from Rocky III estimated to sell between $10,000.00 to $20,000.00. Training boxing gloves from the film Rocky Balboa are estimated to sell for $6,000.00 to $8,000.00.
Other boxing gloves used in the Creed installments will be sold but do not have estimates provided. What can be more sought after to the collector than Rocky’s TUF-WEAR bright red boxing gloves? Original handwritten notebooks filled with story development ideas for the first four Rocky films are estimated to sell between $40,000.00 to $60,000.00 each.
With film franchises that span decades this auction has something for every collector. Collectors Dashboard looks forward to following the sales and tracking collectors from an actor so well known this December 5th. Sylvester Stallone is still a current actor in 2021 and will be for the foreseeable future.
This is actually not the first round of memorabilia and collectibles tied to Sylvester Stallone. His black leather jacket from Rocky sold in 2015 for $149,000.00 in a Heritage Auctions sales — and in 2021 a similar screen-worn black leather jacket from Rocky II sold for $43,200.00. And in 2013, a screen-used survival knife from the First Blood film sold for $92,250.00 in 2013. One auction featuring boxing gloves and Boots from Rocky III fetched $48,000.00 in 2015.
Hey, did any of you know that Sylvester Stallone was a rare book collector? In 2017, he sold a collection that housed great original books and book sets from the likes of Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Voltaire, Charles Dickens, Washington Irving and others.
