“It has a dent where Bogie dropped it,” Wynn said, clearing up the mystery of who owns the bird. It is in fact the Maltese Falcon - a prop from the 1941 Humphrey Bogart film that, according to published reports, sold for $4 million last year to an unidentified buyer.
On a nearby table, among a clutter of Christmas cards, is a vaguely familiar statuette of a bird.
