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Oddjob’s battered bowler hat from Bond movie Goldfinger valued at £30,000 on Antiques Roadshow

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A BATTERED bowler hat from Bond movie Goldfinger has been valued at £30,000. The steel-rimmed headgear doubled as a weapon for sinister assassin Oddjob.

The current owner told BBC’s Antiques Roadshow it was given to him by his brother-in-law — a driver for Aston Martin when the cars featured in the 1964 film.

Pinewood Studios, where Goldfinger was filmed, gave him the hat — worn by actor Harold Sakata — minus its steel rim as a keepsake.

The owner said: “As a young lad, everybody wanted to throw the Oddjob hat. “And, if you look at it, everybody did throw the hat because it’s absolutely in ­pieces.

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