Live And Let Die, 1973
James Bond's shark gun and corresponding compressed-air bullets in fitted case - the 'fantasy' Bond gun designed by Syd Cain to be practical but also mysterious, Cain's instructive note to the Special Effects department on his production drawing for the gun [in the previous lot] reading This gun should be practical in that it fires the capsule...Barrel & butt to come apart - The whole to fit into a designed case. It is important that the gun is not recognisable as such when the case is opened.. - the black Crown Custom fitted case containing: the prop shark gun in two unassembled parts - barrel and butt, three prop copper Co2 cylinders, eight prop compressed-air bullets, an oil bottle, a cleaning brush and a prop manufacturer's plaque inscribed Type 936 MK 1 Mod 1.2. Ref No 11D/7 -- the prop gun and bullets made for James Bond's [Roger Moore] final dramatic sequence with arch villain Dr. Kananga Mr. Big [Yaphet Kotto] in the 1973 United Artists/Eon film Live And Let Die; accompanied by two colour xeroxes of pages from two magazine articles regarding Live And Let Die featuring publicity photographs and stills of the shark gun and other Bond gadgets from the film, both -- 11x16in. (28x40.6cm.) both laminated; and a corresponding black and white still, (printed recently) -- 8x10in. (20.3x25.4cm.) (3)
Live And Let Die, 1973
James Bond's shark gun and corresponding compressed-air bullets in fitted case - the 'fantasy' Bond gun designed by Syd Cain to be practical but also mysterious, Cain's instructive note to the Special Effects department on his production drawing for the gun [in the previous lot] reading This gun should be practical in that it fires the capsule...Barrel & butt to come apart - The whole to fit into a designed case. It is important that the gun is not recognisable as such when the case is opened.. - the black Crown Custom fitted case containing: the prop shark gun in two unassembled parts - barrel and butt, three prop copper Co2 cylinders, eight prop compressed-air bullets, an oil bottle, a cleaning brush and a prop manufacturer's plaque inscribed Type 936 MK 1 Mod 1.2. Ref No 11D/7 -- the prop gun and bullets made for James Bond's [Roger Moore] final dramatic sequence with arch villain Dr. Kananga Mr. Big [Yaphet Kotto] in the 1973 United Artists/Eon film Live And Let Die; accompanied by two colour xeroxes of pages from two magazine articles regarding Live And Let Die featuring publicity photographs and stills of the shark gun and other Bond gadgets from the film, both -- 11x16in. (28x40.6cm.) both laminated; and a corresponding black and white still, (printed recently) -- 8x10in. (20.3x25.4cm.) (3)
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