NEW YORK, November 13. /TASS/. The lightsaber of the Star Wars’ iconic character went under hammer in Dallas, Texas, for record $4.875 million, Heritage Auctions said.

"Darth Vader’s screen-matched hero dueling lightsaber from The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi sold for $4.875 million at Heritage Auctions, setting a world auction record for any Star Wars collectible," the auction house said on Facebook (banned in Russia; owned by Meta, which is designated as extremist in Russia).

Initially, the lot carried a pre-auction estimate of one million dollars or more.