Shure model SM33 ribbon microphone.
The microphone was saved from a trash bin by "The Tonight
Show" chief boom operator Stan Sweeney.
An anonymous bidder in 2005 snatched a piece of TV history,
offering $50,787 for the microphone that sat prominently on
the desk of late-night king Johnny Carson until the 1980s.
The offer was about twice that expected at auction.
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