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Pictured: A Captain Ochre puppet head used in the classic 1967 series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons.
A huge hidden cache of Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson's production puppets, props and scripts have emerged for sale for hundreds of thousands of pounds.
They had belonged to the late John Bell, a driver and handyman at Bray Studios where the classic show's special effects were filmed, since the mid-1980s.
He was given the mementos by a senior director at Anderson's production company as they had no storage facilities for them.
Following Bell's death last year, the rediscovered archive is going under the hammer with auctioneers Ewbank's, of Woking, Surrey.
The sale is expected to generate worldwide interest as it was feared many of these treasured items had ended up in a skip.
Pic: Ewbank's/BNPS
Pictured: A Captain Ochre puppet head used in the classic 1967 series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons.
A huge hidden cache of Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson's production puppets, props and scripts have emerged for sale for hundreds of thousands of pounds.
They had belonged to the late John Bell, a driver and handyman at Bray Studios where the classic show's special effects were filmed, since the mid-1980s.
He was given the mementos by a senior director at Anderson's production company as they had no storage facilities for them.
Following Bell's death last year, the rediscovered archive is going under the hammer with auctioneers Ewbank's, of Woking, Surrey.
The sale is expected to generate worldwide interest as it was feared many of these treasured items had ended up in a skip.
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