The Return Of The Pink Panther, 1974

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The following ten lots and lots 108, 178, 188, 240 and 241 are the property of Peter Mullins, who worked as the production designer on six of the eight hugely popular Pink Panther films. Peter Mullins' career started in 1947 as an apprentice scenic artist at Gainsborough Studios. He was promoted to assistant set dresser, then art director and has also worked as an assistant director. His career includes films such as Alfie (1966), Where Eagles Dare (1968), The Last Valley (1970), Zee & Co (1971), The Medusa Touch (1978) and Shanghai Surprise (1986), as well as numerous television productions in America.

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The Return Of The Pink Panther, 1974
A colourless rock crystal mixed cut oval -- 2¾in. (7cm.) long in presentation box; a black and white photograph of director Blake Edwards on the set of The Pink Panther Strikes Again, 1975 -- 10x8in. (25.4c20.3cm.) in common mount with a piece of paper bearing Blake's facsimile signature; and an original set design, pencil on tracing paper titled "The Return Of The Pink Panther" Int Museum Set, General Detail Of Central Feature, dated 1st July, 1974 and initialled JS [John Siddall, assistant to Peter Mullins], showing details for the design of the diamond's housing in the Royal Museum, Lugash -- 30x50in. (76.2x127cm.) (4)

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This model 'diamond' is one of three commissioned in Austria for use during filming. According to the vendor, one was smashed on the first day of filming, this one he kept as a memento, and the whereabouts of the other is unknown.
This tremendously successful series of films, written and directed by Blake Edwards, started in 1963 with The Pink Panther when the incompetent but endearing Inspector Jaques Clouseau, played so memorably by Peter Sellers, is first introduced.
In the film the famous jewel, known as the Pink Panther, is given to Princess Dala of Lugash by her father, and so begins its journey around the globe as it is pursued by the famous jewel thief Sir Charles Litton (played firstly by David Niven and then Christopher Plummer), otherwise known as 'The Phantom', whose trademark white monogrammed glove (see lot 196) is left at the scene of his crimes.

In The Return Of The Pink Panther the film opens with the guide in the Royal Museum in Lugash describing the diamond to a group of tourists....from the Dynasty of Akbar the Magnificent and for over a thousand years our nation's religious symbol, the Pink Panther, the largest and most famous diamond in the world, irreplacable, it's value cannot be estimated in terms of money....., in answer to the question regarding it's name, the guide replies...the stone is flawed, if it is held up to the light in a certain way, the figure of a springing panther can be seen clearly....