Han Solo’s Star Wars jacket could be yours for £1m

THE jacket worn by Harrison Ford in his role as Han Solo in the Star Wars film The Empire Strikes Back is expected to fetch up to £1m when it goes under the hammer.

It will be part of an auction of rare blockbuster film memorabilia, which also includes the farewell note Rose wrote for her cruel fiance in Titanic, and Marty McFly’s hoverboard from Back To The Future Part II.

Also among the 600 lots to be auctioned by Prop Store on September 20 will be a Stormtrooper helmet from the first Star Wars film, A New Hope, which is expected to fetch up to £60,000, as well as a similar helmet from the most recent film The Last Jedi, which could raise up to £50,000.

Proceeds from the hammer price of that prop

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A lightsaber wielded by Hayden Christensen’s Anakin Skywalker in The Revenge Of The Sith is likely to draw bids of up to £100,000.

Also up for auction is the robe worn by Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden in Fight Club, which is expected to fetch up to £15,000, as well as Forrest Gump’s will be donated to the Bubba Gump Shrimp hat, worn by Tom Hanks, which is expected to sell for up to £7,000.

The auction will be held at London’s BFI Imax, where the items will be on display for the public to view from September 6 to 20. Registration to bid on the items is open at www.propstore. com/liveauction and online proxy bids can be submitted from August 31.

> The Fedora (estimate £200,000 £300,000) and bullwhip (estimate £50,000 - £70,000) as used by Harrison Ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Joes and the Temple of Doom respectively

> A helmet worn by Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan, signed by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg (estimate £10,000£15,000)

> Han Solo’s jacket, as worn by Harrison Ford in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (estimate £500,000 - £1,000,0000)