Lot Essay
Scaramanga's [Christopher Lee] famous golden gun has become part of James Bond legend. The single-shot, gold-plated, 4.2 calibre handgun was made up of individual everyday items, the gun could be easily disguised by the assassin and assembled at speed. The solid gold component parts comprised a fountain pen as the barrel, a cigarette case as the magazine, a lighter as the hammer and bullet chamber and a cufflink as the trigger. In the U.S. the advance movie posters displayed the various gun parts explaining how they fit together with the tag line The Man With The Golden Gun Is Ready To Assassinate James Bond.