Star Trek: Voyager Midgrade Tricorders

From Dec. 15, 2006 through Apr. 13, 2009, the California based screen used entertainment memorabilia dealer ItsAWrap! (http://www.itsawraphollywood.com) conducted a series of weekly auctions via ebay on behalf of CBS/Paramount that offered a tremendous variety of props, costumes, set fixtures, scripts and production related artifacts from the Star Trek franchise to a worldwide audience and collector base. Over the course of 121 weeks, approximately 9100 unique items that spanned the first 10 Star Trek feature films and the last four television series (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise) were sold. Additionally, perhaps 10 costumes from The Original Series (consisting of 4 or 5 light blue Technicians Jumpsuits, 2 pairs of Federation uniform trousers, a dark green Nilz Baris suit seen in "The Trouble with Tribbles", and 2 Tellarite jumpsuits from "Journey to Babel") were auctioned as part of the vast Paramount warehouse inventory that was dispersed. The ItsAWrap sales commenced only weeks after the historic Christie's "40 Years Of Star Trek" auction was held in October, 2006; which offered collectors a total of 1000 lots of screen used memorabilia, highlighted by a number of major starship filming models from the franchise.

Presented below are several photos of different screen used Star Trek: Voyager midgrade tricorder props and accompanying holsters sold at auction by ItsAWrap. These pieces lack the internal electronics and functional lights found in the rarer "hero" props; however, are beautifully detailed with numerous graphical applications, and external plastic accents to represent the top sensor arrays.

The Voyager Tricorder and Holster set seen immediately below sold on Sept. 7, 2007 for a final bid of $3829. The original auction description for the lot is reproduced as follows:

STAR TREK: VOY "TRICORDER W/HOLSTER"
A prop item featured similar to those used throughout Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Voyager and believed to have been used by "Neelix" (Ethan Phillips) in several episodes of Voyager and features a holster that obviously belonged to him. The Tricorders were made for Starfleet as a multi-purpose scientific and technical device; all of which were fitted with cutting edge sensing equipment. This tricorder is resin cast in gray with a flip-open design to maximize portability and incorporates graphical applications as visual displays and data interfaces, mock "button" touch pads, a label on the bottom that reads "TR-590 Tricorder IX, Starfleet R&D San Francisco", yellow plastic accents on the outside top; a molded plastic holster in a bright teal shade and metal clips for the belt are also included. The item measures approx. 4 x 3.5 x 1.5 in the holster.