The falcon coming up for sale in November is the other lead piece. It was displayed at the 69th Academy Awards in 1997. It took two years to make and cost $8 million. From its beak hangs a platinum chain with a 42-carat diamond. The Winston falcon is made out of 10 pounds of gold, has cabochon Burmese ruby eyes and two sets of interchangeable claws, one gold, one coral.
The maltese flacon movie#
Jeweler Ronald Winston, son of Harry Winston, bought it for $398,500 (a record price for a movie prop at that time) and used it as the model to make the bird all the crooks in the story dream of. It was sold at auction in 1994 after Conrad’s death. One of the lead birds was given to actor William Conrad by studio head Jack Warner.
It sold at auction in 2010 to a consortium including actor Leonardo DiCaprio for $305,000.
The maltese flacon update#
See update here.) The resin falcon was lost for years before being rediscovered in 1991. The auction falcon is the one that was dropped. The original with the busted tail is in the Warner Brothers Museum which can only be visited if you pay $52 for the VIP studio tour (EDIT: No it’s not. Three copies are known to exist today, two made out of lead weighing 47 pounds, and one six-pound resin version that was used in scenes when the bird is being carried. Several falcon props were made after Humphrey Bogart dropped the original prop on his foot leaving it with a dented tail. Robinson and Paulette Goddard, to make the falcon for the movie. First-time director John Huston hired his old high school friend Fred Sexton, a prominent Los Angeles artist with paintings in the collections of stars like Edward G. The movie prop version looks nothing like the Kniphausen Hawk. It was bought by the Duke of Devonshire in 1819 and has been part of the Chatsworth collection ever since. It stands on a rock base and is encrusted with garnets, amethysts, citrine quartzes, emeralds, turquoises and sapphires. Hammett was apparently inspired by the Kniphausen Hawk, a ceremonial pouring vessel made in the late 17th century for Count George William von Kniphausen. It traded hands many times over the centuries, getting a coating of dull black enamel at some point to disguise its obvious value. In Dashiell Hammett’s story, the Maltese Falcon is a golden statue encrusted with gemstones that was made in the 1530s by the Knights of Rhodes as a gift for Holy Roman Emperor Charles V to thank him for giving them the island of Malta. It’s the black bird from The Maltese Falcon, the MacGuffin that drives the plot of the classic 1941 film noir starring Humphrey Bogart as hard-boiled private detective Sam Spade. The stuff that dreams are made of is going up for auction at Bonhams New York on November 25th.
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