'The Star Wars' Pre-Production Sticker

Before Star Wars was Star Wars, it was "The Star Wars." Ralph McQuarrie was the concept artist whose pre-production paintings of Tatooine, the Death Star, and characters like Darth Vader convinced 20th Century Fox to fund the film and whose vision of C-3PO convinced Anthony Daniels to take the role. This original sticker, designed by McQuarrie in 1977, was used on set to label materials like cast scripts and film cans during the making of A New Hope. It depicts Luke Skywalker holding a lightsaber beneath the film's original working title, a small paper artifact from the moment the galaxy far, far away was still just an idea. It comes directly from Daniels' personal collection, belonging to the only actor to appear in all nine films of the Skywalker Saga, the man who delivered the first line ever spoken in Star Wars.