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Pop Culture Gems to Hit Vegas Auction Block

Posted Mar 2, 08 4:45 AM CST in Arts & Living 

(Newser) – Indiana Jones' whip. The gun that killed JFK's assassin. Madonna's Like a Virgin wedding dress. All are up for grabs at a massive memorabilia auction scheduled for March 15-16 in Las Vegas, Reuters reports. Billed as the best pop-culture collection ever assembled, the 850-lot treasure trove could fetch more than $5 million, says the president of the auction house.

Any one of the items "would be a star attraction anywhere else," he added. The collection, amassed over the past 25 years by a Florida property developer, also includes Christopher Reeve's Superman costume, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI badge, a wig worn by Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra, and the jacket John Lennon donned in his Imagine video.

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