Lot Essay
This gun can be seen when Tiger Tanaka is showing James Bond [Sean Connery] through the Japanese Secret Service training camp and its practical rocket bullet is demonstrated to Bond by Tanaka.
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Details
You Only Live Twice, 1967
A Gyrojet Rocket handgun
used by Tetsuro Tamba as Tiger Tanaka, head of the Japanese Secret Service in You Only Live Twice;
accompanied by a Certificate of De-Activation; a letter from BAPTY confirming the provenance, a COA from Prop Store of London; and a colour reproduction of a corresponding still (5)
A Gyrojet Rocket handgun
used by Tetsuro Tamba as Tiger Tanaka, head of the Japanese Secret Service in You Only Live Twice;
accompanied by a Certificate of De-Activation; a letter from BAPTY confirming the provenance, a COA from Prop Store of London; and a colour reproduction of a corresponding still (5)
Provenance
The BAPTY Archive.
Literature
HIBBIN, Sally The Official James Bond Movie Book: Special 25th Anniversary Edition, London: Hamlyn, 1987, p.43 (illus.)
Further details
c 1967 Danjaq, LLC and United Artists Corporation. All rights reserved.
Photograph supplied by Prop Store of London
Photograph supplied by Prop Store of London