LOS ANGELES, March 25 (UPI) -- A best supporting actor Oscar statuette once presented to Joseph Schildkraut was among the items up for sale this weekend at an estate sale in Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles Times said that the sale's unusual item, priced at $150,000, dated back to 1937 when Schildkraut won the award for portraying Captain Alfred Dreyfus in the film "The Life of Emile Zola."
The Oscar was put up for sale by the Schildkraut's third wife, Leonora Schildkraut, who inherited it after the actor died in 1964.
While the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences opposes selling Oscars, it was not until 1950 that it created an agreement that gives them first-purchase rights in such situations.
Nonetheless, the award did not sell Saturday and at least one curious shopper offered her take on why it likely wouldn't in the future.
"I didn't win it," Los Angeles resident Mahnaz Hendifar told the Times. "That Oscar means something to the person who won it."
