Spectre Crew Gift
Kiners007
Posts: 2MI6 Agent
Hi I worked on Spectre in Austria, Italy and UK , I have been given a crew gift , which includes bolinger champagne singed by Daniel Craig , also a spectre satchel , hat and leather bound notebook all inscribe with Spectre !! I have had a few offers from people to buy these , but would like to see what they are worth !! Any help in pricing these would be great !! Thanks in advance
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Pretty much... Since they are pretty much a gift from Daniel Craig also I think he would just feel very sad and pissed at the same time if someone would try to sell the package. Try to wait a few years at least in my opinion with this decision.
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I think every fan would LOVE to own it but it would be rushed to sell it now since nobody can estimate its value.
I'd do what MrZ recomends above!
on the other hand, if there ary some fans that can afford to buy the sölden clothes by TF for 1700$,
your bottle is much more rare.
Bond: “I must be dreaming.”
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I would never sell , once DC hangs up his holster could be worth 3 times as much.
hang on :007)
Thunderbird Too.
It just doesn't sit well with me. Many of us dream of having the privelidge of working on a Bond film as its own reward. If you are going to do something like this, either wait 15 - 20 years, or quietly do it through an official film merchandise company that specialises in props, costumes and in house production gifts.
When a baseball player signs a baseball he knows that 9 out of 10 will end up on ebay. However, one out of ten will be a precious gift to a kid or fan. That one in ten is what you sign baseballs for. Who knows, maybe Craig said, "here this is a sign of appreciation, do with it what you want, keep it, sell it, I guess it will fetch you about $1500,-."
I'm not saying I would sell it, I'm just saying that I don't think anyone is obliged to keep something that they received as a gift.
That's the way I see it. Kiners007 is not a Bond fan in the way that most people here are and is in a much different situation than the rest of us are. I think selling this incredible gift upsets us fans more than it will ever upset Daniel Craig. We dream to be in Kiners007's position of working with Daniel Craig, but to him it's a great job rather than a dream come true. Since Kiners007 knows Craig, he has the most legitimate opinion on what Craig would actually feel. And from what I know about Daniel Craig after following him closely for the past 10 years, I really doubt he gives a sh!t what anyone else cares about him or his gift. This gift is from the production, not Daniel Craig. He didn't buy bottles of champagne for the crew. Someone high up just told him he had to sign all of them.
But is this really a personal thank you? Do you honestly think it was Daniel Craig's idea to sign these bottles? I would be pissed if I wanted to thank people who helped me, and all they did was take advantage of my thanks. But then again, if I had the ability to give everyone a thousand pounds to thank them, that would mean more than a lot of them than a signature. I could respect that people may need to use that thousand pounds to help their children rather than let it sit on a shelf.
In my opinion, there is a difference when an actor/director/producer gives personal gifts to cast and crewmembers. I've been on a couple of smaller productions and had that happen. They were personal gifts that weren't unique or very expensive but were certainly thoughtful, but those I certainly would keep because they were kind and completely unexpected. In this case, I doubt that DC actually paid for the champagne. At most EON did, but I highly suspect that Bolly gave them the bottles. Of course, it was very kind of DC to offer/agree to sign them all, but I highly doubt that he had to pay for them.
Needless to say, as a fan of Bond and as someone who has a penchant for collecting, I would cherish the SPECTRE goodies forever. But I have absolutely no criticism of the original poster and wish him luck!
I'm surprised Higgins hasn't threatened some sort of action against him...
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
I was lucky enough to work on several of the sets at Pinewood for QoS, SF and Spectre.
Spectre was the only one where I actually visited site and on one of the days I was there I happened to walk past DC and CW (amongst others) whilst they were stood by one of the outside canteens. The urge to get an autograph or two was there, but felt that that would be a no no and a bit unprofessional .