Actor Sir Mark Rylance’s Wolf Hall costume is being sold on eBay to help fund an anti-war film.

The fur-lined coat, doublet, shirt, hat, britches and codpiece which the actor wore as Thomas Cromwell in the BBC mini-series are all up for grabs.

The money raised will help fund a feature film adaptation of the Czech satirical novel, The Good Soldier Schwejk, by late author Jaroslav Hazek.

Mark Rylance in Wolf Hall (BBC)
Mark Rylance in Wolf Hall (BBC)

Sir Mark, who won a best actor Bafta TV award for the 2015 adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies, is a patron of the Stop The War coalition.

The costume is being sold by Sands Films, which custom-made it for the actor and will produce the film later this year.

Producer Olivier Stockman said: “Schwejk is an anti-war protest.

“It’s about the irrationality, the bungling, the ridiculous cock-ups, the impossibility of coordinating logistics across the vast Austro-Hungarian Empire – as well as across our contemporary ‘would-be’ empires. It is about the criminal absurdity of war.”

The costume will be auctioned on eBay with no reserve, for 10 days from Friday.