First Enterprise model from TOS found, returned to Rod Roddenberry

[Bob Jersey]

Someone had put the 33-inch-long wood assembly, from Howard Anderson Co's Richard Datin, on eBay last year with a minimum bid of $1k, and even then posters to a costume/propmaking forum suspected Rod would need to know... the seller will get a nice reward from him, and it'll be restored for eventual inclusion in a museum...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/arts/television/star-trek-enterprise-model-found.html (link)

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