Antiques Trade Gazette’s weekly choosing of products that caught bidders’ attention entails a suit put on by Robert De Niro in a prominent scene from ‘The Godfather Part II’. It more than doubled it’s approximate value at an auction event in Hertfordshire.
Vito Corleone’s (Robert De Niro) screen-matched brown pea-coat was drawn from Francis Ford Coppola’s Academy Award-winning gangster sequel The Godfather: Part II. The young Vito Andolini left Sicily and was named after his hometown, Corleone, as his surname by immigration department officers at Ellis Island upon arrival in the United States in 1901. He put on his peculiar pea-coat on numerous occasions including during a house robbery he did with Clemenza (Bruno Kirby).
