I must say, I have just had another look at the images and they bring back fond memories of growing up around my Father watching and walking around toy fairs etc with him building up his collection. They are memories as he no longer has the majority of what he collected, so thank you John for uploading your collection for me and others to view - I really do appreciate it.
EDIT - Sorry, I could have added this post into my previous post but I forgot I could edit it!
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I must say, I have just had another look at the images and they bring back fond memories of growing up around my Father watching and walking around toy fairs etc with him building up his collection. They are memories as he no longer has the majority of what he collected, so thank you John for uploading your collection for me and others to view - I really do appreciate it.
EDIT - Sorry, I could have added this post into my previous post but I forgot I could edit it!
Thank you Adam, much appreciated, with all the pooh going on in my family life at the mo I actually get a kick out of doing it. When I started collecting 007 seriously all we had was low quality image reference in The James Bond Collectors Club magazine & I always thought how great it would be to see what Dave published in colour. What really sent me down the road of obsession and financial ruin was The Most Famous Car in the World...and the rest is history -{
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That is a sweet piece. The good news... there are another 19 out there. But will they all smell as nice as yours
Some may find this boring? but it took me a hell of a long time to track one down. Easton Press in the US are known for taking a standard volume & turning it into something special. For Bond's 50th Anniversary they took Life's 50 Years of James Bond, wrapped it in black leather & embellished it with gilt edging...hardly surprising it sold out!
What some may not know is back in 2002 for Bond's 40th Anniversary they took Boxtree's "oh my god it broke my coffee table" James Bond the Legacy and gave it a similar treatment, wrapping it in deep blue leather & embellishing it with gilt pages & detailing...it is quite a handsome volume -{
Is the picture on the front stuck onto the cover or has the cover had a window cut into it?
Boring..........print is not boring
As with the Life 50 Years of JB the dust jacket has been cannibalized however where the image of SC was stuck on that volume, The JB Legacy has embossed leather which gives the appearance of a recessed panel where the dust jacket image has been inserted which is a more classy application -{
Back in 2001 when Rosamund Pike was cast for Bond's 40th Anniversary outing Die Another Day, her character Gala Brand was a "00" armed with a 7.65mm stainless steel suppressed Walther PPK. As the script evolved so did the character of Jinx whose weapons of choice at the pre-production "show & tell" with the production armourers were a pair of satin finish suppressed Beretta pistols which were perhaps too similar in appearance to the now character Miranda Frost's stainless steel PPK? therefore on screen Frost was to adopt the standard SIS issue 9mm Walther P99 but for pre-production Ms Pike utilised the Walther pistol she at the time was to utilise on screen, a stainless steel suppressed PPK & stunt pistol cast off the practical weapon with an aluminium silencer for continuity (utilising one of Pierce's Goldeneye silenced PPK stunts sprayed silver). Also shown is her "00XX" SIS edited identification card (sorry replicators) which was not utilised on screen but was seen at the Designing 007 Exhibition -{
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edited April 2014
Sweet. Do you know if the practical SS PPK that was originally intended for Frost, the same one utilised by Craig in the promo shots for CR? Or did the previous armourers retain them?
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That's what I love about this site...the depth of knowledge is incredible...add to that actual props...just too cool for words -{
After a couple of really lousy years although I hasten to add not with sourcing rare Bond collectibles or discovering new “genuine” friends on AJB007…and a couple of real stinkers!, who are now off my Xmas card/access list permanently, I was looking forward to 2014 for the 50th anniversary of Goldfinger & indeed my own 50th anniversary.
March 9th saw the passing of my mother (who kicked off my obsession in all things Bond Christmas 1965 with a Corgi C261 DB5 before I knew who or what 007 or Bondmania was?) after a 15 year losing battle against parkinsons disease & my world pretty much fell apart but was held back together by the personal contacts of a number of AJB007 members who I am proud to call friends.
I was hoping in this 50th anniversary year to find something or things rather special to celebrate effectively the heydays of 1960’s Bondmania but apart from a long searched for AML BMT216A original press photo & a Cecil Coleman James Bond doll nothing special initially surfaced however the week of my mother’s funeral all that changed when I was told of the existence & possible availability of a Corgi C261 James Bond Aston Martin DB5 “prototype” which was gold plated. Now I’m always a bit sceptical with such discoveries as such an item was undocumented but the thought of it had me salivating. Forward a week & the specific details emerged with accompanying photos & the C261 was not as first believed gold plated however the production Corgi C270 Aston Martin DB5 of 1973 was! The gold plated C270 is something a bit special putting it mildly, as like the gadget laden production C270, the revolving number plates, machine guns, tyre slashers, bullet proof shield & of course the ejector seat are all operational. Production gold plated Corgi Bond models are known of by diecast collectors but are very rarely seen in fact the current owner paid a tidy sum for it back in 2005….ouch!
Additionally the previously mentioned C261 was indeed a first variant prototype which had a cream instead of the production red interior. There were also slight variations in the painted detailing, the gold coachwork was finished in a tone of gold this collector has not seen on a C261 before and the tail lights finished in a single colour. Those who know of the two variants will know that to meet the production demands of Christmas 1965 two different masters were created by Mettoy in Swansea from the production mould of the C218 DB4. One had front indicators & sharp wing vent detailing while the other had slightly reduced wing vent detailing and the omission of the front indicators. The prototype is the latter type. My sincere thanks to Acacia_Avenue for his worldly expertise & advice in all things “prototype” in convincing me it was worth living off bread and water for the next 24 months to secure the item in question….and for finally parting with his NSS promotional Goldfinger case -{
The gold plated C270 production DB5 was from the private collection of Corgi’s chief designer, the late Marcel Van Cleemput who was responsible for amongst other things the incredible gadget laden C269 James Bond The Spy Who Loved Me Lotus Esprit . The gold plated C270 was one of seven sets of 1973 production second edition components which was plated for an unknown reason which came from Mr Van Cleemput's office at Mettoy's Northampton premises back in 1990.
It has been suggested that perhaps the component parts were plated in 1974 for Goldfinger's tenth anniversary however this is very unlikely as a motion picture's anniversary was not treated back then with the same pomp and ceremony afforded to a production today. It has also been suggested that perhaps Mettoy Playcraft marked 1975 on their calendar as the 10th anniversary of their collaboration with Danjaq SA who were responsible for the marketing of products under the 007 banner and perhaps it was this licensing anniversary that the finished plated models were intended for? If this was the case then it is incredibly likely that the completed models would also have had plated spoked wheels as the finish would have been equal to that achieved on the uber-rare gold plated C261 Aston Martin DB5 which Mettoy had produced almost ten years earlier for Bond Production executives. What we do know is that on a visit to the Northampton factory in 1990 Mr Van Cleemput gifted seven sets of plated components to the individual who had assisted him in sourcing examples for his Great Book of Corgi. http://www.qualitydiecasttoys.com/products/19789-C270
Listing link used with permission of Quality Diecast Toys
With Bond in Motion in Covent Garden soon to open I contacted EON (will I ever learn?) with a view to loaning them the discoveries along with a few other Corgi rarities for the “collectibles” section which was to form part of the exhibit or if I was not in a position to purchase? and I very nearly wasn't, perhaps they would like to secure them for the collectibles section of the Archive? as they are an important part of EON Marketing's history after all. Instead of the usual thanks but no thanks their reply came too late for inclusion in the event's opening. Their loss!
I am deeply honoured (not to mention broke) to have these two special and unique items as additions to The Modest Collection & Corgi Marcel Van Cleemput 007 Archive.
Also shown is the rare second issue Corgi C261 of 1967-1968. Cosmetically the DB5 is identical to the first issue of 1965 however it is finished with a lustrous “toffee gold” coachwork with a light tan inner to the ejector seat roof panel. This particular variant is highly sought after by both Corgi and James Bond collectors alike and can command prices anything between £500 to close on £1000 for ex-shop stock condition but is it that special? The box also has minor differences to the 1965 first issue. Most noticeable is the black boarder around the words “ James Bond's” and shading around the words “Aston Martin DB5” on both the outer box and inner plinth. There has been speculation over the years as to why the inside of the roof panel is a tan colour. The popular urban myth is the roof panel is fabricated of plastic however this is most definitely not the case. The reality which I do not believe has been suggested before may have just been a cost & time saving exercise on Mettoy Playcraft’s part? This collector believes that prior to the application of the top coat of lacquer, the whole DB5 body shell was finished in the light tan colour and it is the top coat of lacquer which produces the “toffee gold” colour.
Perhaps as a proposed design changeover between the C261 and C270? the 007 lapel badge contained inside the second issue Secret Instruction packet of the C261 can be found as a rare one piece silk non-Avery backed variant similar in design but not the graphics to the badge which would later be included with the gold bumpered C270 Aston Martin DB5 and C336 Toyota 2000 GT. The silver Bumpered C270 of 1968 had the identical badge within it’s secret instruction packet to that which was included with the majority of the C261 models.
The Corgi C261 James Bond Aston Martin DB5 sold a total of almost 4 million units from it’s release in October 1965 before it was withdrawn in 1968 with the release of the slightly larger gadget laden C270 James Bond Aston Martin DB5.
The C261 itself has quite an interesting history. To produce a model Corgi usually carved an oversized master in wood or resin from which a production sized brass master would be created. That master would then be utilised to create the production master mould. In the case of the C261, Corgi already had an Aston Martin DB4, the C218, in their range which has the wrong shape front end. Production of the said C218 was halted so the mould could be retooled to greater replicate the shape of the DB5 & save them the costs and indeed the time needed to create a production master. The only real telltale sign of this short cutting process was the C261 still had the rear light clusters from the earlier production C218 Aston Martin DB4, not to be confused with the Aston Martin DB4 Vantage, the actual car which appeared in the Goldfinger and Thunderball movies -{
The Corgi 270s issued between 1968 and 1976 on the surface appear to be identical? Perhaps until this post the only known difference was the very first model issued in 1968 had a silver grille where all models since have sported a gold grille however there was a perhaps unnoticed change made to the base plate on the 1973 striped box model. The round casting opposite the exhaust box was changed to an oval shape. http://www.corgi.free.fr/Pages/Underside.htm
1968 first issue base plate
1973 second issue base plate
1973 gold plated "non-retail" second issue base plate
The 1968-73 C270 family
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Great addition to the "modest" collection!!!!
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Another amazing addition to your collection! -{
EDIT - Sorry, I could have added this post into my previous post but I forgot I could edit it!
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Thank you Adam, much appreciated, with all the pooh going on in my family life at the mo I actually get a kick out of doing it. When I started collecting 007 seriously all we had was low quality image reference in The James Bond Collectors Club magazine & I always thought how great it would be to see what Dave published in colour. What really sent me down the road of obsession and financial ruin was The Most Famous Car in the World...and the rest is history -{
Yet again a great unique piece donk, shame some goon scribbled all over it.
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What some may not know is back in 2002 for Bond's 40th Anniversary they took Boxtree's "oh my god it broke my coffee table" James Bond the Legacy and gave it a similar treatment, wrapping it in deep blue leather & embellishing it with gilt pages & detailing...it is quite a handsome volume -{
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Is the picture on the front stuck onto the cover or has the cover had a window cut into it?
Boring..........print is not boring
As with the Life 50 Years of JB the dust jacket has been cannibalized however where the image of SC was stuck on that volume, The JB Legacy has embossed leather which gives the appearance of a recessed panel where the dust jacket image has been inserted which is a more classy application -{
Amazing - as usual
Donks just been promoted to double-o-bastard.
Cool stuff my ped peddling fiend!
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March 9th saw the passing of my mother (who kicked off my obsession in all things Bond Christmas 1965 with a Corgi C261 DB5 before I knew who or what 007 or Bondmania was?) after a 15 year losing battle against parkinsons disease & my world pretty much fell apart but was held back together by the personal contacts of a number of AJB007 members who I am proud to call friends.
I was hoping in this 50th anniversary year to find something or things rather special to celebrate effectively the heydays of 1960’s Bondmania but apart from a long searched for AML BMT216A original press photo & a Cecil Coleman James Bond doll nothing special initially surfaced however the week of my mother’s funeral all that changed when I was told of the existence & possible availability of a Corgi C261 James Bond Aston Martin DB5 “prototype” which was gold plated. Now I’m always a bit sceptical with such discoveries as such an item was undocumented but the thought of it had me salivating. Forward a week & the specific details emerged with accompanying photos & the C261 was not as first believed gold plated however the production Corgi C270 Aston Martin DB5 of 1973 was! The gold plated C270 is something a bit special putting it mildly, as like the gadget laden production C270, the revolving number plates, machine guns, tyre slashers, bullet proof shield & of course the ejector seat are all operational. Production gold plated Corgi Bond models are known of by diecast collectors but are very rarely seen in fact the current owner paid a tidy sum for it back in 2005….ouch!
Additionally the previously mentioned C261 was indeed a first variant prototype which had a cream instead of the production red interior. There were also slight variations in the painted detailing, the gold coachwork was finished in a tone of gold this collector has not seen on a C261 before and the tail lights finished in a single colour. Those who know of the two variants will know that to meet the production demands of Christmas 1965 two different masters were created by Mettoy in Swansea from the production mould of the C218 DB4. One had front indicators & sharp wing vent detailing while the other had slightly reduced wing vent detailing and the omission of the front indicators. The prototype is the latter type. My sincere thanks to Acacia_Avenue for his worldly expertise & advice in all things “prototype” in convincing me it was worth living off bread and water for the next 24 months to secure the item in question….and for finally parting with his NSS promotional Goldfinger case
The gold plated C270 production DB5 was from the private collection of Corgi’s chief designer, the late Marcel Van Cleemput who was responsible for amongst other things the incredible gadget laden C269 James Bond The Spy Who Loved Me Lotus Esprit . The gold plated C270 was one of seven sets of 1973 production second edition components which was plated for an unknown reason which came from Mr Van Cleemput's office at Mettoy's Northampton premises back in 1990.
It has been suggested that perhaps the component parts were plated in 1974 for Goldfinger's tenth anniversary however this is very unlikely as a motion picture's anniversary was not treated back then with the same pomp and ceremony afforded to a production today. It has also been suggested that perhaps Mettoy Playcraft marked 1975 on their calendar as the 10th anniversary of their collaboration with Danjaq SA who were responsible for the marketing of products under the 007 banner and perhaps it was this licensing anniversary that the finished plated models were intended for? If this was the case then it is incredibly likely that the completed models would also have had plated spoked wheels as the finish would have been equal to that achieved on the uber-rare gold plated C261 Aston Martin DB5 which Mettoy had produced almost ten years earlier for Bond Production executives. What we do know is that on a visit to the Northampton factory in 1990 Mr Van Cleemput gifted seven sets of plated components to the individual who had assisted him in sourcing examples for his Great Book of Corgi.
http://www.qualitydiecasttoys.com/products/19789-C270
Listing link used with permission of Quality Diecast Toys
With Bond in Motion in Covent Garden soon to open I contacted EON (will I ever learn?) with a view to loaning them the discoveries along with a few other Corgi rarities for the “collectibles” section which was to form part of the exhibit or if I was not in a position to purchase? and I very nearly wasn't, perhaps they would like to secure them for the collectibles section of the Archive? as they are an important part of EON Marketing's history after all. Instead of the usual thanks but no thanks their reply came too late for inclusion in the event's opening. Their loss!
I am deeply honoured (not to mention broke) to have these two special and unique items as additions to The Modest Collection & Corgi Marcel Van Cleemput 007 Archive.
Also shown is the rare second issue Corgi C261 of 1967-1968. Cosmetically the DB5 is identical to the first issue of 1965 however it is finished with a lustrous “toffee gold” coachwork with a light tan inner to the ejector seat roof panel. This particular variant is highly sought after by both Corgi and James Bond collectors alike and can command prices anything between £500 to close on £1000 for ex-shop stock condition but is it that special? The box also has minor differences to the 1965 first issue. Most noticeable is the black boarder around the words “ James Bond's” and shading around the words “Aston Martin DB5” on both the outer box and inner plinth. There has been speculation over the years as to why the inside of the roof panel is a tan colour. The popular urban myth is the roof panel is fabricated of plastic however this is most definitely not the case. The reality which I do not believe has been suggested before may have just been a cost & time saving exercise on Mettoy Playcraft’s part? This collector believes that prior to the application of the top coat of lacquer, the whole DB5 body shell was finished in the light tan colour and it is the top coat of lacquer which produces the “toffee gold” colour.
Perhaps as a proposed design changeover between the C261 and C270? the 007 lapel badge contained inside the second issue Secret Instruction packet of the C261 can be found as a rare one piece silk non-Avery backed variant similar in design but not the graphics to the badge which would later be included with the gold bumpered C270 Aston Martin DB5 and C336 Toyota 2000 GT. The silver Bumpered C270 of 1968 had the identical badge within it’s secret instruction packet to that which was included with the majority of the C261 models.
The Corgi C261 James Bond Aston Martin DB5 sold a total of almost 4 million units from it’s release in October 1965 before it was withdrawn in 1968 with the release of the slightly larger gadget laden C270 James Bond Aston Martin DB5.
The C261 itself has quite an interesting history. To produce a model Corgi usually carved an oversized master in wood or resin from which a production sized brass master would be created. That master would then be utilised to create the production master mould. In the case of the C261, Corgi already had an Aston Martin DB4, the C218, in their range which has the wrong shape front end. Production of the said C218 was halted so the mould could be retooled to greater replicate the shape of the DB5 & save them the costs and indeed the time needed to create a production master. The only real telltale sign of this short cutting process was the C261 still had the rear light clusters from the earlier production C218 Aston Martin DB4, not to be confused with the Aston Martin DB4 Vantage, the actual car which appeared in the Goldfinger and Thunderball movies -{
The Corgi 270s issued between 1968 and 1976 on the surface appear to be identical? Perhaps until this post the only known difference was the very first model issued in 1968 had a silver grille where all models since have sported a gold grille however there was a perhaps unnoticed change made to the base plate on the 1973 striped box model. The round casting opposite the exhaust box was changed to an oval shape. http://www.corgi.free.fr/Pages/Underside.htm
1968 first issue base plate
1973 second issue base plate
1973 gold plated "non-retail" second issue base plate
The 1968-73 C270 family
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Great insight - superb items!
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