Ian Fleming's Cigarette Holder
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Derbyshire, EnglandPosts: 661MI6 Agent
Hi
I had a though this morning... does anyone know what happened to Ian Fleming's cigarette holder?
It was something that he's using in most of the photo's I've seen of him and as such I think it's quite an iconic item.
I asked Ian's niece Lucy via Twitter and unfortunately she doesn't know of it's whereabouts.
Just wondered if the good people of AJB might be able to shed some light on this mystery.
PS:
Didn't realise that I've just found a new country -- IRAN Fleming
I had a though this morning... does anyone know what happened to Ian Fleming's cigarette holder?
It was something that he's using in most of the photo's I've seen of him and as such I think it's quite an iconic item.
I asked Ian's niece Lucy via Twitter and unfortunately she doesn't know of it's whereabouts.
Just wondered if the good people of AJB might be able to shed some light on this mystery.
PS:
Didn't realise that I've just found a new country -- IRAN Fleming
"NEVER SAY NO TO ADVENTURES." Ian Fleming
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Somebody better tell him Fleming was never knighted 8-)
Is there a look alike, or replica of Fleming's cig holder that can be found?
What about Marc Ange Draco's?
We're not smokers here in Ca, however, I always thought it would be cool to use one of those electronic jobs on a holder. You get the cool factor of a holder w/o the uncool cancer...
As one of the extremely curious over Bond's "real" cigarette case, thank you for the info; the name Mary Millicent Rogers is a good lead for further research! According to Andrew Lycett's Fleming bio in p. 89, it was a girlfriend named Maud Russell who gave fleming his gunmetal finished, gold cigarette case, though IMO these bits of information are never definitive. Also, I think Caspar died before his mother by many years...sad.
Actually, it's Mary Ann Russell, Bond's contact in Paris in FAVTAK, that's in the FYEO collection of short stories.
Sorry the trauma of writing my book obscured my own memory!
From a View to a Kill - James Bond fantasizes a dinner before investigating a dispatcher’s death.
"Bond meets agent Mary Ann Russell of
MI6. He borrows her Peugeot then thinks
of her, seeing her half-eaten milk chocolate
in her car."
Found the link for A Fabergé Gold-Mounted Gunmetal Cigarette Case, circa 1900: http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.54.lotnum.html/2013/russian-works-of-art-and-silver-n08981
Looking at her cigarette case, I could see how Fleming was possibly inspired by it's appearance, but I wonder if the dimensions and funtionality suited the fictional cigarette case, since it's supposed to be wide and slim and able to hold 50 cigarettes. I'm inclined to think that the family made the theoretical leap because of the case being gunmetal in color and the fact that their mother was acquainted with Fleming. I'm still interested to know about Fleming's own case, that was also gunmetal, which I would think suited his own consumption needs.
The white dot and gold rings are visible.
I have one. It is an Asprey holder and apparently he had about ten of them. I purchased from Petronella Wyatt, daughter of Fleming's close friend Woodrow Wyatt. He had been staying with the family and left the holder with them by accident, later telling them that they could keep it.
Not selling by the way, but just FYI!
Incidentally trying to get some Morland cigs/box to match up with it if you hear of any!
What a fantastic item to own. I am very jealous. As regards the Morlands, someone on here was making superb replicas a short while ago. I'm afraid I can't remember their name off the top of my head, but if you do a search on here I am sure you can find him. Perhaps he'll be able to assist you.
www.justgiving.com/inMemoryOfLewisCollins
www.helpforheroes.org.uk
Congrats! What better specimen of Fleming memorabilia is there than one with his DNA?