Fortune and glory to the highest bidder! Harrison Ford’s brown felt fedora from the second installment of the Indiana Jones series has broken a record by becoming the most expensive Indiana Jones hat.
It is one of the most iconic props of cinema history, a coveted piece by any avid collector of legendary garments, and has broken the record for the most expensive Indiana Jones hat.
The brown felt ‘fedora’ that Harrison Ford wore in the second installment of the Indiana Jones saga‘Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom’, has more than doubled its pre-auction estimate of between 250,000 and 500,000 US dollars (between 226,000 and 450,000 euros at current exchange rates) at Propstore’s second auction in Los Angeles in 2024, ‘Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction’, and has sold for a whopping US$630,000 (about 571,000 euros).
The felt hat came from the collection of the late voice actor Dean Ferrandini, Harrison Ford double in ‘Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom’.
“This ‘fedora’ hat was made specifically for the second installment of the Indiana Jones saga and corresponds to shots from the film, production stills and behind-the-scenes images of Ford in a village located in Sri Lanka, in the mining car chase filmed at Elstree studios and in the river sequence filmed in the United States,” say Propstore sources.
Before sale, the previous record of an Indiana Jones hat, the most expensive purchased at auction, was a hat that corresponded to the movie ‘Indiana Jones Raiders of the Lost Ark’ that sold for 500,000 US dollars (about 452,000 euros) in 2015.
The ‘fedora’ was one of the most notable objects of the auction of August from Propstore in which they bid on film and television memorabilia, and which also included items from the Star Wars, Scream, Harry Potter and James Bond sagas.
The imperial scout helmet used in the film la saga Star Wars: ‘Return of the Jedi’, from 1983, reached a price of 315,000 US dollars (about 285,000 euros). A luminous magic wand used by Daniel Radcliffe in ‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’ was priced at $53,550 (about 48,400 euros). A suit worn by Daniel Craig in the 2012 James Bond film ‘Skyfall’ sold for $35,000 (about 31,600 euros) and a fleet insignia from Star Trek: ‘Voyager’ sold for $6,300 (about 5,700 euros). ). The Propstore auction took place in Los Angeles from August 15 to 18.
