The flagship lot of these auctions spread over two days and held by Julien's and Turner Classic Movies was presented with 1,300 other cinema accessories, from Robert De Niro's boxing gloves in Raging Bull to Thor's hammer.
The friendly alien has been one of the most famous characters in pop culture and science fiction since the release of the hugely successful "ET" in 1982.
Almost the entire figurine is articulated: his protruding eyes, his long neck and of course his luminous finger which he shines in the film before saying his cult line "AND telephone house".
A model of the brown alien was also sold for 125,000 dollars (117,000 euros), slightly more than one of the bikes used in the final scene, which went for 115,000 dollars (108,000 euros).
Other emblematic objects of the seventh art were offered and fetched high bids, such as the stick with which Charlton Heston split the Red Sea in two in "The Ten Commandments" (448,000 dollars, around 422,000 euros) and the Nimbus 2000 broom of Harry Potter (128,000 dollars, around 120,000 euros).
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