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The “Indiana Jones” fedora fetched $630,000 at auction

The brown felt fedora worn by actor Harrison Ford in the second installment of the Indiana Jones movies has sold for $630,000 at auction, movie and TV memorabilia company Propstore announced Friday.

The hat featured in 1984’s “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” was expected to fetch between $250,000 and $500,000, according to the item’s online description.

The fedora comes from the personal collection of the late stuntman Dean Ferrandini, who also wore it while standing in for Ford as Jones, the archeologist extraordinaire who really hates snakes.

Keeping the fedora in place during filming was an “ongoing challenge,” the Propstore expert said in the online description, and pieces of foam were inserted to make it fit better.

Created by the Herbert Johnson Hat Company of London, it is made from sable rabbit felt.

Other items sold included a white “biker scout” helmet of an Imperial soldier from the 1983 film “Return of the Jedi,” which fetched $315,000, and a ghost suit worn by the stars of the 1996 film “Scream,” which sold for $270,900,

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom also featured Kate Capshaw as nightclub singer Willie Scott and Ke Huy Quan in a cameo role.

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