Cosprop Auction: The Sequel features treasures from the archives of the world’s leading costume houses, Cosprop, which celebrates its 60th Anniversary this year, to help support the creatives and filmmakers of tomorrow. Following on from last year’s successful Cosprop sale, we have once again inspected miles of costume rails to bring more treasures to auction on 25 November.
Founded in 1965 by John Bright OBE, OSCAR and BAFTA award-winning costume designer, Cosprop has created iconic costumes for actors on stage and screen, capturing audiences’ imaginations for over 6 decades.
Cosprop: The Sequel features over 73 costumes which have graced the shoulders of iconic screen legends, including Bette Davis, Elizabeth Taylor, Ava Gardner, Julie Christie, Heath Ledger, Dustin Hoffman and Ralph Fiennes to name but a few. Prior to going under the hammer, there is an opportunity to view the costumes’ exquisite detail at a public pre-sale exhibition on display at our saleroom in London from 19 – 25 November. Opening hours during our viewing days are listed on the auction page.
Lot 2 - Cate Blanchett's costume as Queen Elizabeth I in the film 'Elizabeth', 1998
Sold for £5,720
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 3 - Heath Ledger's costume as Casanova in the film 'Casanova', 2004
Sold for £5,720
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 4 - Heath Ledger's costume as Casanova in the film 'Casanova', 2004
Sold for £4,160
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 6 - Randy Quaid's 1780s style court suit as King Carlos IV in the film 'Goya's Ghosts' 2006
Sold for £1,300
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 7 - Johnny Depp's costume as Ichabod Crane in the film 'Sleepy Hollow', 1999
Sold for £26,000
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 8 - Gwyneth Paltrow's wedding gown for Emma Woodhouse in the film 'Emma' 1996
Sold for £2,340
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 9 - Kate Winslet's costume as Marianne Dashwood in the film 'Sense and Sensibility' 1995
Sold for £4,420
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 10 - Anne Hathaway's costume as Jane Austen in the film 'Becoming Jane', 2007
Sold for £2,080
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 11 - Suranne Jones' ensemble worn as Anne Lister in the 'Gentleman Jack ' TV series 2022
Sold for £1,170
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 13 - Sophie Rundle's costume as Ann Walker in the 'Gentleman Jack ' TV series 2019 and 2022
Sold for £715
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 14 - Gemma Jones' costume as Aunt Anne Lister in the 'Gentleman Jack ' TV series 2019 and 2022
Sold for £650
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 15 - Liv Tyler's costume as Tatyana Larina for the film 'Onegin', 1999
Sold for £4,680
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 16 - Liv Tyler's costume as Tatyana Larina for the film 'Onegin', 1999
Sold for £8,450
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 17 - Francesca Annis' costume as Katiusha in the film 'Onegin', 1999
Sold for £650
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 18 - Jennifer Jason Leigh's costume as Catherine Sloper in the film 'Washington Square', 1997
Sold for £1,560
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 19 - Kristin Scott Thomas' costume as Mrs Nelly Ternan in the film 'The Invisible Woman', 2013
Sold for £715
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 20 - Dame Maggie Smith's costume as Lavinia Penniman in the film 'Washington Square' 1997
Sold for £1,040
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 21 - Cate Blanchett's costume as Lucinda Leplastrier in the film 'Oscar and Lucinda' 1997
Sold for £3,900
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 22 - Natassja Kinksi's costume as Tess of the d'Urbevilles in the film 'Tess' 1979
Sold for £2,860
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 24 - Matthew MacFadyen's costume as Prince Oblensky (Stiva) in the film 'Anna Karenina', 2012
Sold for £1,170
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 25 - Barbara Flynn's costume as Helen Potter in the 2006 film 'Miss Potter'
Sold for £650
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 26 - Elizabeth Taylor's costume as Nadina Bulichoff in the film 'Young Toscanini' 1988
Sold for £2,080
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 27 - Elizabeth Taylor's costume as Nadina Bulichoff in the film 'Young Toscanini', 1988
Sold for £2,210
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 28 - Johnny Depp's costume as Inspector Frederick Abberline from the 2001 film 'From Hell'
Sold for £5,460
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 30 - Emily Blunt's costume as Cornelia Locke in the TV mini-series 'The English', 2022
Sold for £1,040
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 31 - Emily Blunt's costume as Cornelia Locke in theTV mini-series 'The English', 2022
Sold for £910
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 32 - Helena Bonham Carter's costume as Eudoria Holmes in the 2022 film 'Enola Holmes 2'
Sold for £1,300
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 34 - Johnny Depp's formal evening suit as J.M. Barrie in the film 'Finding Neverland', 2004
Sold for £3,380
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 35 - Kate Winslet's costume as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies in the film 'Finding Neverland', 2004
Sold for £3,120
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 36 - Julie Christie's costume as Emma Du Maurier in the film 'Finding Neverland', 2004
Sold for £1,300
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 37 - Dustin Hoffman's costume as Charles Frohman in the film 'Finding Neverland', 2004
Sold for £1,300
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 38 - Kate Winslet's costume as Ophelia in the film 'Hamlet', 1996
Sold for £2,600
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 39 - Uma Thurman's costume as Charlotte Stant in the film 'The Golden Bowl', 2000
Sold for £2,340
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 40 - Margot Robbie's costume as Daphne Milne in the film 'Goodbye Christopher Robin, 2017
Sold for £3,380
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 41 - Eddie Redmayne's costume as Einar Wegener/Lili Elbe in the film 'The Danish Girl', 2015
Sold for £1,690
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 42 - Annabelle Wallis' costume as Grace Burgess-Shelby in the TV series 'Peaky Blinders', 2014
Sold for £1,040
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 43 - Dame Maggie Smith's costume as Violet Crawley in the TV series 'Downton Abbey', 2012
Sold for £2,860
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 44 - Dame Maggie Smith's costume as Violet Crawley in the TV series 'Downton Abbey', 2012
Sold for £3,380
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 45 - Dame Maggie Smith's costume as Violet Crawley in the TV series 'Downton Abbey', 2012
Sold for £2,210
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 46 - Dame Maggie Smith's costume as Violet Crawley in the TV series 'Downton Abbey', 2013
Sold for £1,690
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 47 - Dame Maggie Smith's costume as Violet Crawley in theTV series 'Downton Abbey', 2012
Sold for £3,640
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 48 - Shirley MacLaine's costume as Martha Levinson in the TV series 'Downton Abbey', 2012
Sold for £3,640
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 49 - Ava Gardner's costume as Mabel Dodge Luhan in the film 'Priest of Love', 1981
Sold for £1,690
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 50 - Bette Davis' costume as Marie Van Schuyler in the 1978 film 'Death on the Nile'
Sold for £3,640
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 51 - Angela Lansbury's costume as Salome Otterbourne in the 1978 film 'Death on the Nile'
Sold for £1,820
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 52 - Angela Lansbury's costume as Salomé Otterbourne in the film 'Death on the Nile' 1978
Sold for £1,950
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 54 - Dame Maggie Smith's costume as Daphne Castle in the film 'Evil Under the Sun', 1982
Sold for £4,160
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 56 - Julia McKenzie's costume as Miss Marple in the TV series 'Agatha Christie Marple' 2009-2013
Sold for £715
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 59 - Emily Blunt's costume as Linnet Ridgeway in the film 'Death on the Nile', 2004
Sold for £1,950
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 60 - Kristin Scott Thomas's costume as Sylvia McCordle in the film 'Gosford Park', 2002
Sold for £1,950
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 61 - Kristin Scott Thomas' costume as Sylvia McCordle in the film 'Gosford Park' 2001
Sold for £910
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 62 - Ralph Fiennes suit as Bill Brown in 'The Dig' 2011
Sold for £845
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 64 - Nicole Kidman's costume as Grace Stewart in the film 'The Others' 2001
Sold for £6,500
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 65 - Marion Cotillard's costume as Edith Piaf in the film 'La Vie en Rose' 2007
Sold for £3,640
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 66 - Florence Pugh's costume as Jean Tatlock in the 2023 film 'Oppenheimer'
Sold for £520
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 67 - Melanie Griffith's evening gown worn as Linda Voss in 'Shining Through', 1992
Sold for £5,200
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 68 - Anna Maxwell Martin's costume as Mrs Gowling in the film 'The Duke', 2020
Sold for £650
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 69 - Demi Moore's costume as Laura Quinn in the film 'Flawless', 2007
Sold for £2,080
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 70 - Helena Bonham Carter's costume as Noele Gordon in the TV mini series 'Nolly', 2023
Sold for £780
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 71 - Helena Bonham Carter's cocktail suit as Elizabeth Taylor from 'Burton & Taylor', 2013
Sold for £520
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 72 - Helena Bonham Carter's pink suit as Elizabeth Taylor from 'Burton & Taylor', 2013
Sold for £520
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)
Lot 73 - Sir Ben Kingsley's costume as 'The Hood' for the film 'Thunderbirds' 2004
Sold for £2,210
Buyer's premium: 25% (exclusive of VAT)