The sword used by actor Mel Gibson in the hit film Braveheartwas today sold for £116,000 to Irish financier Mr Dermot Desmond at a charity auction in New York.
Gibson donated the five-foot broadsword to a sale to aid a project by the charity Unicef Ireland to help prevent mothers in three African countries passing Aids to their babies.
The sale, hosted by actor Liam Neeson and held in aid of the charity Movie Action for Children, made £277,000.
A total of 15 lots donated by stars and studios went under the hammer.
The light sabre Neeson used when he played Qui-Gon Jinn in the Star Wars prequel The Phantom Menacewas bought by Mr Desmond's son Ross for almost £37,000.
The dress worn by Catherine Zeta Jones in the Mask of Zorro, in which she played opposite fellow Welsh actor Anthony Hopkins, went for just over £1,000.
A shirt worn by Ralph Fiennes in the English Patient fetched £1,300, while a birthday phonecall from Michael Jackson, currently visiting Britain, went for£660.
Also under the hammer were the whip from the Indiana Jones moves, which went for £50,000 to an anonymous telephone bidder, a copy of the music to the forthcoming Harry Potter movie, which fetched £5,000, and a Cecil Beaton portrait of Audrey Hepburn, which sold for £35,000.
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