{"id":3685,"date":"2010-11-25T18:00:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T23:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/?p=3685"},"modified":"2010-11-26T01:35:12","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T06:35:12","slug":"christie%e2%80%99s-james-bond-pistol-sells-darth-vader-costume-unsold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/christie%e2%80%99s-james-bond-pistol-sells-darth-vader-costume-unsold\/","title":{"rendered":"Christie\u2019s: James Bond Pistol sells, Darth Vader Costume Unsold."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christies.com\/LotFinder\/searchresults.aspx?intSaleID=22922#action=paging&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;intSaleID=22922&amp;sid=6169358c-8d4d-4b8d-8c7c-37a0a2a4a5e3&amp;pg=4\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3687\" title=\"BondPPK\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/BondPPK-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/BondPPK-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/BondPPK.jpg 685w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><strong><em>Christies London<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0sold\u00a0A Walther air pistol held by Sean Connery as James Bond in the photo-shoot used for the\u00a0 the poster\u00a0in the\u00a0advertising campaign for the 1963 United Artists\/Eon film <em>From Russia With Love <\/em>today for an astounding\u00a0\u00a0\u00a3277,250, which is $438,609 in U.S. Dollars. The weapon was not used in any of the James Bond films but was used for quite a few promotional posters.<\/p>\n<p>While not an original, screen used prop, the advertising\u00a0poster\u00a0it was used in is\u00a0well known.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately the Darth Vader\u00a0costume and helmet attributed to\u00a0<em><strong>Star Wars: Episode V &#8211; The Empire Strikes Back<\/strong><\/em> (1980), failed to sell. It had an esitmate of\u00a0\u00a0\u00a3160,000 &#8211; \u00a3230,000 ($253,120 &#8211; $363,860 U.S.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 330px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/VaderPic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3686\" title=\"VaderPic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/VaderPic-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/VaderPic-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/VaderPic.jpg 343w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 270px;\">*Photos and information from <em>Christies<\/em>\u00a0 web site.<\/p>\n<iframe id=\"basic_facebook_social_plugins_likebutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.moviepropcollectors.com%2Fmagazine%2Fchristie%25e2%2580%2599s-james-bond-pistol-sells-darth-vader-costume-unsold%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=&amp;action=like&amp;font=arial&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:px; height:25px\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Christies London\u00a0sold\u00a0A Walther air pistol held by Sean Connery as James Bond in the photo-shoot used for the\u00a0 the poster\u00a0in the\u00a0advertising campaign for the 1963 United Artists\/Eon film From Russia With Love today for an astounding\u00a0\u00a0\u00a3277,250, which is $438,609 in U.S. Dollars. The weapon was not used in any of the James Bond films [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-3685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-highlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3685"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3700,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions\/3700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3685"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moviepropcollectors.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}