Received my clip yesterday...looks great although smaller than I first expected. So question for all you style gurus (Bill?)....how does one use a money clip...cash on the bottom and credit cards on top...how should the money be folded..spine out? Any info would be helpful!
Yeah, I got my money clip on Tuesday. I put the cash with the spine facing in and credit cards on the bottom. Having travelled the world in my former profession as a Merchant Marine Officer, I learned to put the smaller bills on the outside of the fold with the larger bills inside. That way if people are watching you it appears you have a wad of ones or small bills. Also I put my credit cards on the bottom, but 90 degrees different than what Bond apparently uses (from the Omega pictures). By folding a couple of the outside bills off center, it covers the credit card at least from one side. You can also put the cards in the center of your wad with off center bills covering both sides, but I find this method less utilitarian. In any event, I don't see the need to show the world how much money I have on me and I don't think Bond would either.
There are rather unscrupulous types about who would have no conpunction against separating you from your money.
DG
So, what sharp little eyes you've got...wait till you get to my teeth.
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So ....how does one use a money clip...cash on the bottom and credit cards on top...how should the money be folded..spine out? Any info would be helpful!
I always thought the money clip was an American idea, so presumed you'd all be familiar with it. I first heard of someone using one in the UK about five years ago, but I've still never seen one being used. I still use a wallet from Swaine Adeney, Lit-Bond's leathergoods supplier.
Perhaps I don't move in sufficiently affluent circles.
Bill Tanner"Spending the money quickly" iPosts: 261MI6 Agent
So ....how does one use a money clip...cash on the bottom and credit cards on top...how should the money be folded..spine out? Any info would be helpful!
I always thought the money clip was an American idea, so presumed you'd all be familiar with it. I first heard of someone using one in the UK about five years ago, but I've still never seen one being used. I still use a wallet from Swaine Adeney, Lit-Bond's leathergoods supplier.
Perhaps I don't move in sufficiently affluent circles.
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Sorry to digress, but wasn't there a literary Bond character who had a money clip fashioned from a large coin? I'm thinking Largo, but am unsure without checking the book.
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You're right - but I can't remember who it was either without checking. Pistols Scaramanga or Jack Spang?
The Bond charecter with the money clip was Red Grant, his was made "of" a $50 Mexican Gold coin. Fleming really meant a 50 Peso coin, which is about the size of the old US Silver dollar.
The Bond charecter with the money clip was Red Grant, his was made "of" a $50 Mexican Gold coin attached. Fleming really meant a 50 Peso coin, which is about the size of the old US Silver dollar.
Thanks 7289! I thought that was a really neat money clip as it was described.
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Yes, thanks for that - saves me ploughing through. I was going to start with all the American villains first, so it would have taken quite a while to come up with Red Grant.
Can't see how this would work though; is the coin itself supposed to be bent over to form the clip? In which case it surely wouldn't have much spring to it (too thick), would it?
Prehaps someone can post a real world picture of the clip so those interested can better appreciate the actual size.
I dont have a camera at my desk but I do have a ruler. The dimensions of mine are 0.75" x 2" (1.9cm x 5cm).
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"...the purposeful slant of his striding figure looked dangerous, as if he was making quickly for something bad that was happening further down the street." -SMERSH on 007 dossier photo, Ch. 6 FRWL.....
Thanks for the measurements on the Pell clip, that actually a pretty good size for a money clip. I have two older silver clips that are about the same dimensions.
The expired eBay auction 50 Peso would be perfect for Red Grant.
Question: In Moonraker, Bond is trying to figure out what to do with the money he has won from Drax. Amoung the items he considers buying are "three diamond clips". I have never been able to figure out what these were. Could they be money clips?
However, I was put off by the idea that Fleming wrote Moonraker in the 50s when money clips were perhaps more associated with flash American mobsters (the Spang Brothers?) than the kind of Englishman that Bond is.
Asp9mmOver the Hills and Far Away.Posts: 7,535MI6 Agent
The three diamond clips were for the married women that Bond was juggling at the time.
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Asp9mmOver the Hills and Far Away.Posts: 7,535MI6 Agent
The three diamond clips were for the married women that Bond was juggling at the time.
Bond must indeed be a generous and reckless fellow if he is giving away diamond (hair) clips to the wives of other men, especially considering that he makes love to them with "rather cold passion".
I agree about diamond money clips being "flash", and can't see Bond buying hair clips - even as an investment. Even at that three money clips seems an odd investment.
Prehaps "clips" is a jeweler term for something else.
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Cheers Mantis. Making me more and more inclined to buy one. I don't normally carry much cash around with me though. So not sure if it's the right thing for me.
First one is the makers mark Douglas Pell. The others are something to do with the type or silve and when and where it was made I believe.
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edited May 2007
DP = Makers mark
925 = fineness of silver (925 parts per thousand)Sterling Silver
Panther Head = London Assay
h = letter code denoting year of manufacture
DP = Douglas Pell, ie makers mark
925 = silver content 925 parts silver in 1000
Head = Assay Office, its a leopard head signifying London Office grading the silver item
"alphabet letters" = year silver item was made. current clips are "h" = 2007, Bonds clip was "f" = 2005
Interesting Bond is using a clip because in Goldeneye its a leather wallet, DAF wallet (although you could argue its not his but Bond's Playboy card was inserted in the bad guys wallet), etc In FRWL Bond pulls Turkish lira out of his coat pocket to bribe guard, no wallet, no clip.
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Question: In Moonraker, Bond is trying to figure out what to do with the money he has won from Drax. Amoung the items he considers buying are "three diamond clips". I have never been able to figure out what these were. Could they be money clips?
In short, as others have suggested, these were indeed articles of women's jewellery (hair clips or brooches?); Fleming confirms it in FYEO when Bond buys one for another girl.
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Seems a fair exchange to me.
I have my cash folded in half with my credit, debit, licence and insurance cards inside teh folded cash.
I was surprised at how small the money clip was when I receive dti but I still love it.
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There are rather unscrupulous types about who would have no conpunction against separating you from your money.
DG
"People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." Richard Grenier after George Orwell, Washington Times 1993.
I always thought the money clip was an American idea, so presumed you'd all be familiar with it. I first heard of someone using one in the UK about five years ago, but I've still never seen one being used. I still use a wallet from Swaine Adeney, Lit-Bond's leathergoods supplier.
Perhaps I don't move in sufficiently affluent circles.
I always thought the money clip was an American idea, so presumed you'd all be familiar with it. I first heard of someone using one in the UK about five years ago, but I've still never seen one being used. I still use a wallet from Swaine Adeney, Lit-Bond's leathergoods supplier.
Perhaps I don't move in sufficiently affluent circles.
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Thanks 7289! I thought that was a really neat money clip as it was described.
Can't see how this would work though; is the coin itself supposed to be bent over to form the clip? In which case it surely wouldn't have much spring to it (too thick), would it?
I have seen many "coin" money clips, most are like the David Pell version with a coin soldered onto the "face" side.
I would speculate that is what Grant had.
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I dont have a camera at my desk but I do have a ruler. The dimensions of mine are 0.75" x 2" (1.9cm x 5cm).
Yes, this is how I envisioned it too. Here's a specimen on an expired eBay auction: http://cgi.ebay.com/Beautiful-Gold-Peso-Money-Clip_W0QQitemZ330093107137QQcmdZViewItem
The expired eBay auction 50 Peso would be perfect for Red Grant.
Question: In Moonraker, Bond is trying to figure out what to do with the money he has won from Drax. Amoung the items he considers buying are "three diamond clips". I have never been able to figure out what these were. Could they be money clips?
Anyone care to speculate .....
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However, I was put off by the idea that Fleming wrote Moonraker in the 50s when money clips were perhaps more associated with flash American mobsters (the Spang Brothers?) than the kind of Englishman that Bond is.
I agree about diamond money clips being "flash", and can't see Bond buying hair clips - even as an investment. Even at that three money clips seems an odd investment.
Prehaps "clips" is a jeweler term for something else.
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925 = fineness of silver (925 parts per thousand)Sterling Silver
Panther Head = London Assay
h = letter code denoting year of manufacture
925 = silver content 925 parts silver in 1000
Head = Assay Office, its a leopard head signifying London Office grading the silver item
"alphabet letters" = year silver item was made. current clips are "h" = 2007, Bonds clip was "f" = 2005
Interesting Bond is using a clip because in Goldeneye its a leather wallet, DAF wallet (although you could argue its not his but Bond's Playboy card was inserted in the bad guys wallet), etc In FRWL Bond pulls Turkish lira out of his coat pocket to bribe guard, no wallet, no clip.
Speculate? Never!
Actually this has cropped up a couple of times before and is mentioned here: http://www.ajb007.co.uk/articles/007/jamesbondclothing4/
(scroll down to the Cufflinks & Jewellery section).
In short, as others have suggested, these were indeed articles of women's jewellery (hair clips or brooches?); Fleming confirms it in FYEO when Bond buys one for another girl.
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