Joe McConnell
The hat worn by actor Harrison Ford in the second instalment of the Indiana Jones film saga has sold at auction for almost half a million pounds.
The brown felt hat, made specifically for the film Temple of Doom, sold for $630,000 (£487,000) in Los Angeles on Thursday.
Other movie memorabilia also sold at the same time, including props from Star Wars, Harry Potter and James Bond productions.
Jones, an archaeologist and adventurer, is seen wearing the hat at the beginning of the film, when he and his companions jump from a crashing plane onto an inflatable raft.
In the scene, the man is on board a plane with nightclub singer Wilhelmina “Willie” Scott, played by Kate Capshaw, and her 12-year-old friend Short Round, played by Ke Huy Quan, as they try to escape the clutches of a Chinese criminal gang.
After the flight is sabotaged by the pilot, the trio uses the raft to fall from the plane, before sliding down a mountainside.
The auction house said the hat was also used during additional filming at producer George Lucas’ visual effects facility.
The fedora was also worn by Ford’s stunt double in the 1984 film, Dean Ferrandini, and was sold along with previously unseen photos of the stuntman wearing the now-iconic costume on set.
Ferrandini died last year. The hat came from his personal collection.
The sable fedora is a reimagining of the original that appeared in the first Indiana Jones film, Raiders of the Lost Ark, with a “more tapered” crown than the first, auction house Propstore said.
Created by the Herbert Johnson Hat Company of London, the inner lining features the gold monogrammed initials “IJ”.
Also sold at auction were an Imperial Scout helmet used in the 1983 Star Wars film Return of the Jedi, which sold for $315,000 (£243,000), and a light wand used by Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, which achieved a winning bid of $53,550 (£41,400).
Meanwhile, a suit worn by Daniel Craig in the 2012 James Bond film Skyfall sold for $35,000 (£27,000).
Brandon Alinger, Propstore’s chief operating officer, said the auction house is “proud to have connected such a large number of fans with the historic pieces they love.”
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Indiana Jones hat fetched more than double the value of another Temple of Doom fedora that went up for auction in 2021, which sold for $300,000 (£232,000).
