A coat worn by Bruce Lee for his last film Game of Death sold for $77,000 at a rare auction of the late kung fu icon’s items in Hong Kong Saturday, far above pre-sale estimates. Thirteen items went under the hammer at the sale, believed to be the largest-scale auction of Lee memorabilia in the southern Chinese city, where the martial arts star was raised before moving to the US in his late teens.
They smashed pre-sale estimates and raised a total of HK$1.78 million, including the dark-blue fur-lined coat which was made around 1973 for Game of Death, which was released after Lee’s death. The coat was originally ex-pected to fetch about HK$70,000 but was sold to a US collector for HK$600,000, almost nine times initial estimates.
—AFP