Lot Essay
In the second Bond film From Russia With Love the evil SPECTRE agent Rosa Klebb [Lotte Lenya] uses a knuckle duster to test the strength of the SPECTRE assassin, Red Grant's [Robert Shaw] stomach muscles.
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From Russia With Love, 1963
A prop knuckle duster decorated with an embossed scrolling pattern and patent details Patent Boxer -- 2¾x4¼in. (7x10.7cm.) - the implement believed to have been used by Lotte Lenya as SPECTRE agent Rosa Klebb in the 1963 United Artists/Eon film From Russia With Love; accompanied by corresponding stills
For safety reasons, since the photography for the catalogue, the knuckle-duster has been rendered unusable by being permanently fixed to a plaque in a custom-made perspex case
A prop knuckle duster decorated with an embossed scrolling pattern and patent details Patent Boxer -- 2¾x4¼in. (7x10.7cm.) - the implement believed to have been used by Lotte Lenya as SPECTRE agent Rosa Klebb in the 1963 United Artists/Eon film From Russia With Love; accompanied by corresponding stills
For safety reasons, since the photography for the catalogue, the knuckle-duster has been rendered unusable by being permanently fixed to a plaque in a custom-made perspex case