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.
“Because it didn’t have the steel in it anymore, whenever it landed it was damaged.”
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Experts from Antiques Roadshow have valued the hat — which sliced heads off statues in the film — at up to £30,000.
The show’s Marc Allum said it had left him “shaking with excitement”.
Oddjob’s hat was part of a collection of 007 memorabilia brought to the Antiques Roadshow when it filmed at the National Botanic Garden of Wales in the summer.
