Indiana Jones’s ‘Temple Of Doom’ Hat Sells For $630k At Auction

Harrison Ford made a simple brown felt fedora hat an era-defining style statement when he donned it in the Indiana Jones movie series, and now it’s sold for an astonishing $630,000.

The BBC reports that the hat was specifically created for the 1984 second instalment of the record-breaking series, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. 

The hat reached $630,000 at auction on Thursday in Los Angeles. Other items sold at the same time included props from the Star Wars franchise, alongside Harry Potter and James Bond productions. 

The auction house said the hat was also used during additional photography at producer George Lucas’s visual effects facilities.

This is the latest in high-figure sales for artefacts once the property of the great and the good. Last year saw the jacket worn by Michael Jackson for his ill-fated Pepsi ad go for $300,000 at auction. The same sale saw George Michael’s jacket – seen in the video he recorded with Aretha Franklin for the hit I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) – go for $115,000, a lot more than the highest estimate price going into the auction.