More Vintage Bond Smoking Items
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Gardner's Bond smokes H Simmon's cigarettes. 3 Gold rings stay on the cigarette plus the H Simmons logo also appears. Bond is especially proud that he is the only customer who can coax H Simmons to personalise cigarettes for him. H Simmonds is the oldest cigarette firm in the UK. They are no longer in business but used to be based in the Burlington Arcade.
Vintage tin of burlington Blend tobacco
Vintage ceramic tobacco jar
Vintage pipe ashtray
Vintage tin of burlington Blend tobacco
Vintage ceramic tobacco jar
Vintage pipe ashtray
A Whisper of Love, A Whisper of Hate
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Some more smoking rarities, this time from early Connery.
In FRWL novel Bond is particularly impressed with Kerim's cigarettes offerred to him from a box on his desk....a fine mild and sweet Turkish tobacco. Later on Kerim gives Bond around a hundred of these cigarettes. Diplomates, the finest - most of these go to the consulates and embassies. Here is a fine vintage example of the box of Diplomates containing 20 cigs. Opening the lid still exudes the fine Turkish aroma....beautiful... Now for some strong black Turkish coffee after a breakfast consisting of Turkish yoghurt and green figs.
Kerim's cigarette holder
A box of Morland cigarettes. This is the packaging that tied in to the success of the Bond novels as the inner slip of paper made reference to Ian Fleming and Bond Specials No.1. The pre-Bond type packaging did not have this reference naturally. After Fleming death, the wording was changed yet again.
www.007jamesbond.dk
http://thedangermen.com/
Some very very rare items
TIS - "The moment you think you got it figured - you're wrong"
Formerly known as Teppo
DG
"People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." Richard Grenier after George Orwell, Washington Times 1993.
Here's another pic of the other side of my FRWL shelf. The Morlands box and Dunhill DN/FRWL/GF cigarette lighter.
Other FRWL film and literary items can be seen.
p/s can anyone spot the odd item out, and from which Bond stories (Hint: odd item out appears in two Bond stories)
DG
"People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." Richard Grenier after George Orwell, Washington Times 1993.
Little devil...yeah, my Moneypenny tells me the same thing! :x
"What sharp little eyes you have got..."
ps, no need to reply to that...LOL
Yes the bottle on the right is Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee. I got it in New York in the delicatessan in Grand Central Station. I did not get the coffee beans ground so it would "keep" better for collecting purposes.
Unfortunately, De Bry's no longer exists. So research is limited. It was a Parisian confectionery company that also had a London outlet. I have an old De Bry's label for the Blue Mountain coffee to add to Bond's FRWL literary breakfast ritual. (Only thing I miss is that Norwegian honey!) B-)
I bought extra (its expensive stuff but the BEST coffee you can ever buy) to consume. If I remember you have the Chemex. Tried it yet? I have to pick up one of these one day.
Rgds. Sid
p/s Congratulations on the tall Broadboy. Its is so hard to find. -{
But that Broadboy is quintessential Bond...when Connery strikes the flint on the Dunhill to his Morland cigarette in Les Ambassadeurs in DN and utters that immortal introduction. Well, enough said.
We share the same passion for FRWL -{
Yes, I have tried the Chemex, but not with Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee. I used Colombian coffee. Someone I know believes Colombian coffee to be the best. Mr. Bond would probably take exception to that. But I must say now I'm going to find some Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee and run it through the Chemex, and it's all because of you and that delicious display.
DG
"People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." Richard Grenier after George Orwell, Washington Times 1993.
DG
"People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." Richard Grenier after George Orwell, Washington Times 1993.