Prop store display

CRB

Anyone else been to the Prop Store display at London IMAX Waterloo ? Just popped in myself, they have a few Bind items there (Scaramangas gun, another Bond gun from LtK I think)

Prop Store

We've taken some photos of the James Bond items that are currently on display at the Live Auction preview exhibition down at the ODEON BFI IMAX, Waterloo, London.

The exhibition is free to enter and open Monday - Friday 10am - 9.30pm and Saturday and Sunday 11am - 9.30 right up to auction day on September 23rd.

The auction catalogue with full descriptions can be found here: www.propstore.com/liveauction

Matt S

The brown Frank Foster shirt the auction says is the Rio shirt from Moonraker is not a shirt that Roger Moore wears in Moonraker. The brown shirt in Moonraker has tab cuffs while the shirt at auction has ordinary rounded cuffs. I'm guessing that it's actually the shirt Moore wears in Octopussy under his shooting vest: http://thesuitsofjamesbond.com/shooting-vest/

I'd be interested in seeing a close-up photo of the fabric, if anyone is able to take a photo of it.

Prop Store

Hi Matt,

Thanks for your comment and bringing that to our attention.

The detail on the cuffs are hard to see in the stills, but we've compared the material pattern, buttons and stitching (especially the dual line running down the front) with blu-ray stills and are happy with the result. I've included a couple of images below to demonstrate.

If you have any detailed stills from Octopussy with some more suggestions of the shirt's use, please do send them over to me sian@propstore.com and we'll be more than happy to take a look. We always appreciate any comments!

Very best,

Sian

Higgins

Waiting for Donk's comments on the guns.

@Prop Store: If I understand you correctly,. you are only using visual reference from a BluRay to label a piece "worn in the movie" and the word from a crew member?

As far as I am aware, usually a production orders - particularly in the case of clothing - multiples to be prepared if an item gets damaged/dirty etc.

So following this logic, the shirt is at best "production used" but not "screen worn" unless you get more evidence that we can see this particular shirt in the movie?

Gadget Meister

And unless my eyes deceive me the collar on the shirt is totally different to the screen cap ???

As are the buttons???

Matt S

Gadget Meister wrote:

And unless my eyes deceive me the collar on the shirt is totally different to the screen cap ???

As are the buttons???

I sent screenshots of the Octopussy shirt to show them that it's the shirt they have. I also sent a screenshot of the tab cuff on the Moonraker shirt to show them they definitely don't have the Moonraker shirt. It's the most obvious proof they labelled the shirt incorrectly. The collar and cuffs are both different, as is the colour slightly. The colour of the shirt they have matches the Octopussy shirt.

Also, I'm not so sure on the blue shirt from the FYEO finale. Last year they sold a different shirt with some different details as the same shirt. Since the shirt is mostly hidden under a jumper it's hard to say what is correct.

lippe

It strikes me that the screen shot and the shirt photo show two shirts with very different button stances.

The Octopussy shirt would be what we're looking at to my eye.

Asp9mm

The P99 PAK isn't from TND either, wrong serial number. They should have consulted Donk, he knows the serial numbers for pretty much every Walther used in the entire series.

Matt S

lippe wrote:

It strikes me that the screen shot and the shirt photo show two shirts with very different button stances.

The Octopussy shirt would be what we're looking at to my eye.

I wouldn't say the button stances are very different. Maybe it's 1 cm higher in Octopussy. Foster started placing the buttons slightly higher in the 1980s.

ppw3o6r

Asp9mm wrote:

The P99 PAK isn't from TND either, wrong serial number. They should have consulted Donk, he knows the serial numbers for pretty much every Walther used in the entire series.

What I can say is I was present back in 2006 when an ex-Bond named & screen credited armourer identified this particular PAK pistol and custom blank fire silencer as one used by Brosnan as James Bond "this is the suppressed pistol I placed in Pierce's hand on set". The pistol & silencer were then submitted by the Bond armourers as lot #249 in the Guns of James Bond auction at Christies in conjunction with The Propstore of London on December 5th 2006 where the lot achieved a sum of £7200 inc fees. There were 3 custom silencers made for & used by Pierce Brosnan on Tomorrow Never Dies and The World is Not Enough. Of those 3 silencers I was once fortunate enough to be the keeper of two of them. One now resides in a private collection in the USA, I still possess one and the other is this auction example. There were also non-firing metal hero suppressors used on the firearm P99 pistols.


Armoury Archive image pre-deactivation, Lot #249, pre-Christies Guns of James Bond auction 2006

Asp9mm

Which film was it attributed to then? I'd look myself, but it's at the bottom of a box somewhere in the loft

Prop Store

Thanks again to Matt for making us aware of a potential incorrect attribution of the 'Moonraker' shirt. This garment was acquired directly from one of Roger Moore's costume assistants who worked with Mr Moore for many years over multiple films and acquired a number of Mr Moore's costumes at the end of each production. It was his recollection that this specific shirt was worn in Moonraker and it was attributed as such.

We are now following up on this matter based upon the input from Matt and will update as soon as we have more information.

Prop Store

Thanks again to forum members for you input regarding this shirt. We are now amending the attribution of this shirt to Octopussy for the on-line catalogues and will making a pre-auction announcement as such.

minigeff

seems familiar.....

Asp9mm

Shoddily made by the looks :v

minigeff

Thrown together by a team of 3 legged blind badgers

Asp9mm

...in a bag )

ausbondfan

I'm not really a huge prop guy when it comes to things such as shirts that an actor wore but a 007 used gun would look absolutely amazing framed and on display. I see that 2 were on sale with one selling for 6000 Pounds.

If I were a millionaire I'd be all over those props. I like the film clappers as well, they're a little more reasonably priced.

Asp9mm

ausbondfan wrote:

I'm not really a huge prop guy when it comes to things such as shirts that an actor wore but a 007 used gun would look absolutely amazing framed and on display. I see that 2 were on sale with one selling for 6000 Pounds.

If I were a millionaire I'd be all over those props. I like the film clappers as well, they're a little more reasonably priced.

The hammer price is going to be well over those estimates though.