‘The Wizard of Oz’ Tin Man’s oil can up for auction for the first time

Observe the yellow brick highway… to gather an iconic film prop.

Over 80 years after the groundbreaking Warner Bros. movie “The Wizard of Oz” graced the silver screens, a prized piece from the set goes up for public sale for the very first time.

The Tin Man’s oil can from the 1939 technicolor fantasy is being offered for $200,000, in keeping with TMZ.

Kruse GWS Auctions is holding the sale and famous on the product description web page that movie historians say that is one in every of 5 oil cans used throughout filming, whereas different consultants say there have been three.

The container might be seen on the Academy Museum of Movement Footage in Los Angeles.

The can is at present on mortgage to the museum by November 2022.

In keeping with the public sale home, the museum was additionally excited by letting the successful bidder hold the golden prop on the gallery after the mortgage settlement is glad in November.

Tin man's oil can from 'The Wizard of Oz' worth $200,000 at auction
The Tin Man’s oil might be seen on the Academy Museum of Movement Footage in Los Angeles.

The merchandise will include a redacted copy of the mortgage settlement for the Academy Museum in addition to an insurance coverage appraisal of $1 million.

The enduring musical starred Judy Garland because the wide-eyed Dorothy, with Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley, Billie Burke and Margaret Hamilton finishing the ensemble solid.

Garland’s blue gingham gown from the film was lastly discovered final yr after being lacking for nearly 50 years.

The costume was mysteriously misplaced in 1972 and was discovered on the Catholic College campus in Washington, DC in June 2021.

The faculty’s lecturer and operations coordinator for drama and music, Matt Ripa, unearthed the gown as he was cleansing out an space of one of many faculty’s buildings.

Ripa found a shoebox containing the blue-and-white gown in a trash bag and the college has been conserving the robe protected in its archives.

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