Rarest item(s) in your collection?
Charmed & Dangerous
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I've been a Bond fan since my parents took me to see Diamonds Are Forever at the cinema in 1971. I pretty much started collecting Bond stuff piecemeal since then.
I guess the rarest item in my collection is this lobby-style poster, which my sister bought for me in about '71 or '72 for Christmas. It was printed in Hamleys, the toy store in London, with whatever name you wanted printed on it. As you can see, it features scenes from the first seven films, and as it was an unofficial item, the images have been changed slightly... but you know what they refer too. It was also intended that you can't see Bond's face... allowing the recipient to fantasise that it really was them playing Bond
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I lost it for a few years then found it again when I moved house in the mid-90s, and framed it - it's been hanging in a slightly out of the way place since then. Bless her, my wife has never moaned about it.
So what's the rarest item - official or unofficial - in your collection?
I guess the rarest item in my collection is this lobby-style poster, which my sister bought for me in about '71 or '72 for Christmas. It was printed in Hamleys, the toy store in London, with whatever name you wanted printed on it. As you can see, it features scenes from the first seven films, and as it was an unofficial item, the images have been changed slightly... but you know what they refer too. It was also intended that you can't see Bond's face... allowing the recipient to fantasise that it really was them playing Bond
)I lost it for a few years then found it again when I moved house in the mid-90s, and framed it - it's been hanging in a slightly out of the way place since then. Bless her, my wife has never moaned about it.
So what's the rarest item - official or unofficial - in your collection?
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Nothing like what you folks have, I'm sure....
(edit) Oh, I forgot my US 1st edition paperback of OHMSS (see avatar). Probably worth a couple of Doritos Locos tacos at Taco Bell.
“It reads better than it lives.” T. Case
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
We all love your ring
“It reads better than it lives.” T. Case
And you call your self a Bond fan
The ring is something us prop collectors have been after for years, never even thinking that we would get a chance to own one, the one at Christies went for around 5k ? luckily Bondtoys has many contacts and found the original mould, the rest is now AJB history
And BTW, because I'm so uninformed and unworthy,... what DOES it say?
“It reads better than it lives.” T. Case
Im just joking with you :007) The ring is difficult to work out even with bluray, the fact that she is wearing the ring upside down from our aspect don't help either
Sorry, I cant tell you what it says
With the hand on his.......
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
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Failing that, the rarest items will be the dedicated autographs I have in my handmade copper books by my artist friend, as well as the books themselves which are one-of-a-kind
Adam Carter-Jones
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I have been fortunate in receiving gifts from the set or from the authors themselves and have some unique props and books to enjoy.
misty sugar coated memories
Rarest? Have you forgotten where you put them Bruno?
Or did you sell them on for a big profit? 8-)
I recalled very big profit - $2,000+ ties, etc.