Original Bond screen-used suits for sale - Propstore 2021
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I thought these were quite interesting: Propstore are selling, amongst other 007 items, a screen-used Anthony Sinclair suit from YOLT and a dinner suit from TLD.
New to me is the info that the dj was made for Dalton's previous movie Brenda Starr and carried over into TLD (I have heard before he was the only Bond not to have bespoke suits for that film because of his last-minute casting). You even get a letter of authenticity from the man himself, on 'Timothy Dalton' headed paper!
Other Bond items you can see here, they start from P.138:
My favourite is you can buy the fire-damaged 007 sign from the 007 stage at Pinewood! 😁
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On the pdf of the catalog the Bond items start on page 72 since there are 2 pages per screen.
I like the FRWT briefcase throwing knife.
There are more Bond items on day three of the auction. See page 379 of the catalog/page 196 of pdf.
There are a lot of interesting non-Bond items as well.
Yes a bit more reasonably-price stuff further down, including Brad Whittaker's jacket:
And a Bond stunt jacket from the opening of TND
I wonder how many Brad Whittaker jackets were made because one sold at a recent Bond auction
https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/ewbanks/catalogue-id-srew10298/lot-8bfb8ed0-887d-4bfd-9c14-adad011f55e2#lotDetails
And when you say recent you mean recent: less than a week ago! That is very curious. I guess it's probably the same one..?
There are indeed either quite a number of those or it's one of those Bond pieces which regularly changes hands; this is like the fourth or fifth sale I'm aware of.
You’ll find a load of these jackets and other items come up for sale as the costume warehouse they were at has recently been selling off many of their old stock due to it being sold. Some great bargains were to be had.
Wow, I wish I had a cool 100k UK Pounds to cover the winning bid for the YOLT Connery suit!
As that’s £30k more than the estimate I would hope you’d win it for that! 😄
Here's my video of the Bond lots going under the hammer at The Prop Store
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I wanted to add a decent buffer for a better chance at winning, even if it’s just pretending!
Better safe than sorry! 😄
Amazing vid, thanks Blair. Great to see how they screen-matched up the YOLT suit.
Thanks, mate! Another video of some of the other non-Bond lots that caught my eye dropping soon...
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So, the results are...
Dalton dinner suit: £9,000
Connery YOLT suit: unsold
Other interesting things: Vesper's business cards for £1,800; a CR £1m chip for £32,000, £4K for Dr No casino chips, £2,500 for a Moonraker toxin vial, £4,750 for YOLT katana sword etc.
https://ukm.propstoreauction.com/m/view-auctions/catalog/id/299/?page=1&view=grid&sale=undefined&cat=3280%2C4131&catm=any&order=order_num&xclosed=no&featured=no
How much for the SPECTRE ring ? in the pics the top is a bad reproduction, we can only guess what the other is.
And here is an original.
😂
http://www.007museum.com/SPECTRE_Ring.htm
The only item I was interested in bidding on was the FRWL knife, but it was so different from any of the ones you see on screen or any publicity stills and touring history of the attaché case, I had to walk away. I guess other people came to the same conclusion too.
This is how the screen used ones all look. Very different.
Um, final prices? WOWOWOWOWOW.
Some of them don't seem crazy. For some reason I was thinking that I should have put a bid in for the Octopussy's Circus jacket and shirt combo (which went for £1,500) - but I must remember that I don't need this stuff! 😁
Mind you if I see a FYEO Lotus crew jacket on sale...
I have only ever seen one in the flesh, it was Cubbies in MGW's office wardrobe 😁
Bizarrely I actually sat next a guy on a train wearing one once!
Supposedly the Dr No plaques sold for £9500 and then £9000 for the manky £500 but we'll see....................
You mean if I had £50,000 I could have won?!? Then again, “Screen Matched” sounds fishy; does that hint at it being a replica, albeit by Anthony Sinclair himself?
You mean if I had £50,000 I could have won?!? Then again, “Screen Matched” sounds fishy; does that hint at it being a replica, albeit by Anthony Sinclair himself?
"Screen Matched" means there is a visual characteristic of the prop or costume that is unique and that characteristic is visible in the film. For example there is a fold/ripple on the shoulder of the Connery YOLT suit that is visible on screen.
Thank you for that info! For the genuine item I am surprised that this suit did not sell. I can only imagine the rummaging, distribution and disposal of Sean Connery’s belongings that went on last year and wonder what personal effects with make it to the auction houses?