Cowardly Lion Costume (Wizard of Oz)
- Maker
- Bert Lahr / MGM
- Year
- 1939
- Rank
- 32 of 100
Cowardly Lion Costume (Wizard of Oz)
Cowardly Lion Costume (Wizard of Oz) by Bert Lahr / MGM (1939) is ranked 32 in the FLOAT 100 for Memorabilia. It sold for $3,077,000 on 24 November 2014. The highest price ever for a costume worn by a male performer.
What is it, and why is it in the FLOAT 100?
The highest price ever for a costume worn by a male performer.
Screen-worn Cowardly Lion costume (Gilbert Adrian design, real lion hides)
What is the best-sourced number for it?
- Figure
- $3,077,000
- Kind
- Realized at auction
- Date
- 24 November 2014
Bonhams New York, TCM sale. $3.077M.
This is a realized sale. Somebody paid it. Source.
How this is made
- The figure
- One reference price, taken from a named public source and shown with its own kind. FLOAT does not average it with anything or adjust it for time.
- Realized or not
- A realized price is a completed sale. A market asking price and a price-guide value are not sales, and are labeled as such wherever they appear.
- Why no grade ladder
- Most FLOAT 100 entries are individual objects. There is one of this, so there is no population and no spread across grades to show.
- Archive
- 2026-08-08