Sale 1307
New York
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18 November 2003
Price realised
USD 4,182
Estimate
OOMPA LOOMPA COSTUME FROM "WILLIE WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY" Paramount, 1971 A costume worn by one of the actors portraying an Oompa Loompa consisting of a rust-colored wool shirt with striped collar and cuff design, a pair of white jodphurs, a pair of brown leather slippers with both having an interior handwritten notation reading Clayton (possibly a reference to George Claydon who portrayed one of the Oompa Loompas) and a green curly-haired wig.
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