Summary Jumpsuit from Bruce Lee's final movie was sold for $100,000 at an auction in Hong Kong.
HONG KONG (AFP) - A yellow-and-black jumpsuit from Bruce Lee s final movie was sold for more than double its expected hammer price at an auction in Hong Kong Thursday commemorating the 40th anniversary of his death.
The one-piece suit from "Game of Death", which was specially designed by a Hong Kong tailor to fit Lee, was sold at the evening auction for HK$780,000 ($100,595) to an anonymous telephone bidder.
His matching yellow nunchaku, also used in the film, sold at HK$540,000 to a collector in the room, where around a dozen bidders were seated.
"It would have been nice to have the suit but I prefer this most of all, more than any other thing," 49-year-old British investment manager George Philips, who also bid on the suit said after winning the nunchaku.
"I think everybody loves Bruce Lee items, I did karate when I was five or six years old," Philips said, adding that he used to practise with the nunchaku while wearing a motorcycle helmet at the time.
Bidding was "very strong for an auction this size" Spink China vice chairperson Anna Lee said after the event.
The auction fetched HK$2.19 million, double Spink s estimate of HK$1 million.
All 14 lots were sold with other items including a punch pad Lee used to refine his one-inch punch, which sold for HK$50,400. Lee s bamboo whip used in "Game of Death" also sold for HK$96,000.
All the items belonged to a private collector but originally came from Lee or his friends and family.
Lee died in 1973 after a severe reaction to medication, before "Game of Death" could be completed, although a version of it was later released using stand-in actors.
Lee is credited with catapulting the martial arts film genre into the mainstream with movies including "Fist of Fury" and "The Big Boss".
