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The hat worn by actor Harrison Ford in the second instalment of the Indiana Jones film franchise has sold for nearly half a million pounds at auction.<\/p>\n
The brown felt fedora – specifically made for the Temple of Doom film – fetched $630,000 (\u00a3487,000) in Los Angeles on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Other items of movie memorabilia were sold at the same time including props from Star Wars, Harry Potter and James Bond productions.<\/p>\n
Jones, an adventuring archaeologist, is seen with the hat early on in the movie where he and his companions jump from a crashing plane in an inflatable raft.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
During the scene, he is on board a plane with nightclub singer Wilhelmina “Willie” Scott, played by Kate Capshaw, and his 12-year-old friend Short Round, played by Ke Huy Quan, while escaping the clutches of a Chinese crime gang.<\/p>\n
After the flight is sabotaged by the pilot, the trio use the raft to fall from the plane, before sliding down a mountainside.<\/p>\n
The auction house said the hat was also used during additional photography at producer George Lucas’s visual effects facilities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The fedora was also worn by Ford’s stunt-double in the 1984 film, Dean Ferrandini, and was sold with previously unpublished photos of the stuntman wearing the now-iconic costume on location.<\/p>\n
Ferrandini died last year. The hat came from his personal collection.<\/p>\n
The sable-coloured fedora was an update to the original featured in the first Indiana Jones film – Raiders Of The Lost Ark – with a “more tapered” crown then the first, Propstore, the auction house, said.<\/p>\n
Created by the Herbert Johnson Hat Company in London, the inside lining features gold monogrammed initials “IJ”.<\/p>\n
Also sold at the auction was an imperial scout trooper helmet used in the 1983 Star Wars film Return Of The Jedi – which was bought for $315,000 (\u00a3243,000) – as well as a light-up wand used by Daniel Radcliffe in Harry Potter And The Prisoner of Azkaban, which attracted a winning bid of $53,550 (\u00a341,400).<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, a suit worn by Daniel Craig in the 2012 James Bond film Skyfall sold for $35,000 (\u00a327,000).<\/p>\n
Brandon Alinger, Propstore chief operating officer, said the auction house was “proud to have connected such a wide expanse of fans with the historic pieces they cherish”.<\/p>\n
The Indiana Jones hat fetched more than double that of another Temple of Doom fedora auctioned in 2021, which sold for $300,000 (\u00a3232,000), according to Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n