Well AJBers after many years I’ve finally bitten the bullet and purchased a pair of Mr Ed “Q” Maggiani’s replica James Bond props. The only problem was they were attached to this £30,000/$45,000, 49 year old, motor less lump of fibreglass!
This incredible piece of Bond history was originally the property of Mr Jordan Klein, the underwater engineering genius who with a 45-60 of his dive buddies or at least possibly every scuba diver Ivan Tors could muster, stunt man & an off duty motorcycle cop in the Bahamas in 1965?, under the direction of Ricou Browning co-filmed with cameraman Lamar Boren the incredible Thunderball underwater battle between Bond and the US Navy Para-Marines and Largo and his SPECTRE divers and who built from Ken Adam’s and Peter Murton's designs the incredible underwater bomb sled and 12 SPECTRE tow sleds. Only 3 of the 12 Tow Sleds are known to still exist, the other two being the property of the Ian Fleming Foundation Bond Vehicle Collection and a museum in Miami. Mr Klein also piloted the SPECTRE bomb sled and one of the Tow Sleds.
Extensive research has revealed a little known fact that stunt Tow Sled shells with no internals were recreated by John Stears & Albert Luxford for usage at Pinewood Studios. These are identified by the lack of battery compartment cover plates. You read it here first.
Mr Klein was gifted the prop by the production company upon completion of underwater filming where it was believed to have been used by Sean Connery's/Bond's underwater stunt double Frank Cousins. I am deeply honoured and deeply broke (that's putting it mildly 007!) to have this incredible Bond artifact as part of The Modest Collection as it has been a long time ambition to own a screen used Bond vehicle & lets face it, the DB5 was never gonna happen?.
As previously but with smaller Bond artifacts, an offer of its loan has been made to EON Productions Ltd should they require it for any 50th Anniversary of Thunderball events in 2016?…watch this space.
This is incredible!, an original 1965 Mettoy Playcraft publicity photo and press release for the Corgi C261 James Bond Aston Martin DB5 featuring the original pencil artwork for the concept box art illustrations, the top right illustration being the design which was utilised on the final packaging although reversed. It is interesting to note that the production colour art had the addition of the number plate housing & the guns firing & the driver moved across for right hand drive (art reversed). Additionally the concept art & the model itself featured the AML trademark wing vents which were omitted on the final box art. I have never seen these images before or have even heard of a mention of them in related literature & in Thunderball's 50th Anniversary year...quite a find & perhaps seen here for the first time on AJB007 -{
A truly amazing find {[] thank you for sharing Donk.
I would like to think the original artwork still exist somewhere along with the original box artwork.
Hi Donk
We have never communicated but I have been very interested reading your posts (Most of the day!!) with reference to your collection and the recent acquisitions from the Monty Calme collection - very rare pieces indeed and I am very jealous. Including all of the debates about the provenance (or otherwise) of various sets, badges and collections. I collect vintage TV & Film diecast so obviously Bond comes under that remit but my larger collections are Gerry Anderson and 1966 Corgi Batmobiles.
However, the reason for the response to your post, is that I didn't see one of these:
A reps case of samples for the Shell Bond collection.
Would you be interested in buying it? It is not as scratched as it appears in the photo.
Hi Donk
We have never communicated but I have been very interested reading your posts (Most of the day!!) with reference to your collection and the recent acquisitions from the Monty Calme collection - very rare pieces indeed and I am very jealous. Including all of the debates about the provenance (or otherwise) of various sets, badges and collections. I collect vintage TV & Film diecast so obviously Bond comes under that remit but my larger collections are Gerry Anderson and 1966 Corgi Batmobiles.
However, the reason for the response to your post, is that I didn't see one of these:
A reps case of samples for the Shell Bond collection.
Would you be interested in buying it? It is not as scratched as it appears in the photo.
Thank you for your kind offer but I am afraid I am not a completist collector & have specialised in pieces from the height of 1960s Bondmania therefore your collectible piece does not fit into my limited remit.
Asp9mmOver the Hills and Far Away.Posts: 7,485MI6 Agent
Hi Donk
We have never communicated but I have been very interested reading your posts (Most of the day!!) with reference to your collection and the recent acquisitions from the Monty Calme collection - very rare pieces indeed and I am very jealous. Including all of the debates about the provenance (or otherwise) of various sets, badges and collections. I collect vintage TV & Film diecast so obviously Bond comes under that remit but my larger collections are Gerry Anderson and 1966 Corgi Batmobiles.
However, the reason for the response to your post, is that I didn't see one of these:
A reps case of samples for the Shell Bond collection.
Would you be interested in buying it? It is not as scratched as it appears in the photo.
Thank you for your kind offer but I am afraid I am not a completist collector & have specialised in pieces from the height of 1960s Bondmania therefore your collectible piece does not fit into my limited remit.
In other words, it's crap and not yours anyway so go away :v
Hi Donk
We have never communicated but I have been very interested reading your posts (Most of the day!!) with reference to your collection and the recent acquisitions from the Monty Calme collection - very rare pieces indeed and I am very jealous. Including all of the debates about the provenance (or otherwise) of various sets, badges and collections. I collect vintage TV & Film diecast so obviously Bond comes under that remit but my larger collections are Gerry Anderson and 1966 Corgi Batmobiles.
However, the reason for the response to your post, is that I didn't see one of these:
A reps case of samples for the Shell Bond collection.
Would you be interested in buying it? It is not as scratched as it appears in the photo.
Thank you for your kind offer but I am afraid I am not a completist collector & have specialised in pieces from the height of 1960s Bondmania therefore your collectible piece does not fit into my limited remit.
In other words, it's crap and not yours anyway so go away :v
As a newcomer to the site, I do not consider Asp9mm's comments "In other words, it's crap and not yours anyway so go away", very welcoming. I am a collector of TV & Film diecast and yes, this was purchased at a Vectis auction. However, it does not fit into my cabinets and sits in a cupboard; something I consider to be a major crime in the world of collecting and I therefore thought that somebody else might get some pleasure from it. My Bond section is shown in the photo below. I apologise if I am not worthy of being on your site Asp9mm but I will now run off back to Planet Diecast.
Twizzle
Asp9mmOver the Hills and Far Away.Posts: 7,485MI6 Agent
Ripping stock pictures from other sites is pretty easy to detect. So long...
What a charming person you are.........do you have many friends?
The 'Stock' photo's you refer to are generally from my collection, as you can see from this one.
Although why I feel I should have to justify myself to you is beyond me.
Twizzle
Asp9mmOver the Hills and Far Away.Posts: 7,485MI6 Agent
Maybe if you'd taken the time to introduce yourself in the first place before hawking goods using a cropped picture from another site, you may have had more success and less suspicion surrounding your post and intentions.
Maybe if you'd taken the time to introduce yourself in the first place before hawking goods using a cropped picture from another site, you may have had more success and less suspicion surrounding your post and intentions.
I still seem to be justifying myself to you and I am not really sure why. I actually addressed my post to the gentlemen referred to as Donk and if you bother reading it, you will see that I did introduce myself with as much information as I am happy to share on a public website.
Possibly you could moderate your response's until such time as you get to know someone; "Welcome to the forum, where did you get this from, was it the one sold at Vectis?" Where I come from, that is generally regarded as a nice polite response.
I think this is a terrible buy - not even worth the shipping - I don't see any value with this modern China production
Hi
I don't entirely disagree with you! I was having a bad day at the auction and bought it out of spite!! As mentioned earlier, it doesn't fit with my collection and won't even go into the cabinet. That said, it is a lot nicer than it looks in the Vectis picture. It was quite a popular little set and I thought (at the time) that a set in a case was a good idea!!
I am so sorry for your lost .... talking about the case .... just look at it ..... really really cheap case - a nice paper box would have been more thoughtful, well design package and would give it some class - but this case just show it all that this a quick thoughtless production for the masses - not a collectible
Again sorry
I have spent a lot of time trying to take good photos of items and I have used an auction site's item photo before on eBay when it was the exact same lot I won at that auction. (And if that was a bad practice, I don't know, but if anyone thinks that is wrong, do let me know right here or by PM, please.)
I have just now "filed" in my collection photos of items I sold that I love because the auction house took beautiful photos of them in prep for the sale! Even though I didn't like the items themselves enough to keep them... But man, the photos look sharp.
There are very friendly people here but there are very direct people, also, and they are the same people! "The things we do for England."
I wouldn't hesitate to recommend, by the way, that you shoot fresh photos if you can that show it as less scratched...
I have spent a lot of time trying to take good photos of items and I have used an auction site's item photo before on eBay when it was the exact same lot I won at that auction. (And if that was a bad practice, I don't know, but if anyone thinks that is wrong, do let me know right here or by PM, please.)
I have just now "filed" in my collection photos of items I sold that I love because the auction house took beautiful photos of them in prep for the sale! Even though I didn't like the items themselves enough to keep them... But man, the photos look sharp.
There are very friendly people here but there are very direct people, also, and they are the same people! "The things we do for England."
I wouldn't hesitate to recommend, by the way, that you shoot fresh photos if you can that show it as less scratched...
Thank you for the welcoming post and advice. Similar to yourself, my whole collection is catalogued with details of the purchase dates, cost, from where they were acquired and any other relevant comments. I also have an archive and in both cases 95% of the photographs are not mine! As you say, they are generally shot in far better conditions than I can create.
With reference to the sale of the item, to be honest I don't really have any intention of selling it; it was only that, whilst researching for the new DB5 model, I came across Donks Modest Collection and thought he might have liked it. I hate collections that are not on display and this particular item is in a cupboard so contrary to Asp9mm's comments about "Hawking goods", I probably would have given it to him for his collection!
What a charming person you are.........do you have many friends?
The 'Stock' photo's you refer to are generally from my collection, as you can see from this one.
Although why I feel I should have to justify myself to you is beyond me.
Hello Twizzle,
for sure you had a rocky start here - partly because you don't know the people who responded in person.
First of all, I would not hesitate to call Asp9mm my friend and I know that he's highly respected and liked in the 007 world.
His reply may have been a bit rough but we are pretty often faced with "one-hit-wonders" who only register here to advertise things for sale without even saying hello or introduce themself.
See it a bit like a group of fans hanging around in a pub, discussing their collection and then out of the blue someone sneaks in with a random pic and says that he's selling that.
What would you expect as a reaction and what would you do if you where part of that group, particularly if that happens almost on a daily basis?
But imo there is no doubt about one thing: You offer something to sell here: You use a real picture!!
Everything else is misleading and bad manners. Full Stop!
As for these car models, there may have been made millions of each variant and the attache case is cheap - and I mean really cheap crap.
If you are really having a good collection, you may agree - sticking with your statement will only make you look silly here.
Welcome to AJB by the way - the best James Bond Collector's community - no matter if you like it or not
President of the 'Misty Eyes Club'.
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
What a charming person you are.........do you have many friends?
The 'Stock' photo's you refer to are generally from my collection, as you can see from this one.
Although why I feel I should have to justify myself to you is beyond me.
Hello Twizzle,
for sure you had a rocky start here - partly because you don't know the people who responded in person.
First of all, I would not hesitate to call Asp9mm my friend and I know that he's highly respected and liked in the 007 world.
His reply may have been a bit rough but we are pretty often faced with "one-hit-wonders" who only register here to advertise things for sale without even saying hello or introduce themself.
See it a bit like a group of fans hanging around in a pub, discussing their collection and then out of the blue someone sneaks in with a random pic and says that he's selling that.
What would you expect as a reaction and what would you do if you where part of that group, particularly if that happens almost on a daily basis?
But imo there is no doubt about one thing: You offer something to sell here: You use a real picture!!
Everything else is misleading and bad manners. Full Stop!
As for these car models, there may have been made millions of each variant and the attache case is cheap - and I mean really cheap crap.
If you are really having a good collection, you may agree - sticking with your statement will only make you look silly here.
Welcome to AJB by the way - the best James Bond Collector's community - no matter if you like it or not
Hi Higgins
Thank you for taking the time to justify your friends comments; at least I now have a better understanding of the reaction.
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This incredible piece of Bond history was originally the property of Mr Jordan Klein, the underwater engineering genius who with a 45-60 of his dive buddies or at least possibly every scuba diver Ivan Tors could muster, stunt man & an off duty motorcycle cop in the Bahamas in 1965?, under the direction of Ricou Browning co-filmed with cameraman Lamar Boren the incredible Thunderball underwater battle between Bond and the US Navy Para-Marines and Largo and his SPECTRE divers and who built from Ken Adam’s and Peter Murton's designs the incredible underwater bomb sled and 12 SPECTRE tow sleds. Only 3 of the 12 Tow Sleds are known to still exist, the other two being the property of the Ian Fleming Foundation Bond Vehicle Collection and a museum in Miami. Mr Klein also piloted the SPECTRE bomb sled and one of the Tow Sleds.
Extensive research has revealed a little known fact that stunt Tow Sled shells with no internals were recreated by John Stears & Albert Luxford for usage at Pinewood Studios. These are identified by the lack of battery compartment cover plates. You read it here first.
Mr Klein was gifted the prop by the production company upon completion of underwater filming where it was believed to have been used by Sean Connery's/Bond's underwater stunt double Frank Cousins. I am deeply honoured and deeply broke (that's putting it mildly 007!) to have this incredible Bond artifact as part of The Modest Collection as it has been a long time ambition to own a screen used Bond vehicle & lets face it, the DB5 was never gonna happen?.
As previously but with smaller Bond artifacts, an offer of its loan has been made to EON Productions Ltd should they require it for any 50th Anniversary of Thunderball events in 2016?…watch this space.
Noticed there is a cable running up the side do the lights switch on?
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I'm so pleased, can't think of a better home for it donk....
Nice one bro!! -{ -{
The lights do work; was under the impression that the screw spun as well but in checking the original description, I see I'm mistaken on that:
http://propstore.auctionserver.net/view-auctions/catalog/id/10/lot/1397/?url=%2Fview-auctions%2Fcatalog%2Fid%2F10%2F%3Fpage%3D1%26key%3Dtow%2Bsled%26cat%3D%26xclosed%3Dno
Thank you PMJB -{
I did not think to look at the catalogue information.
I would like to think the original artwork still exist somewhere along with the original box artwork.
...Thank you, Q, that's a great comfort.
Thanks for sharing -{
We have never communicated but I have been very interested reading your posts (Most of the day!!) with reference to your collection and the recent acquisitions from the Monty Calme collection - very rare pieces indeed and I am very jealous. Including all of the debates about the provenance (or otherwise) of various sets, badges and collections. I collect vintage TV & Film diecast so obviously Bond comes under that remit but my larger collections are Gerry Anderson and 1966 Corgi Batmobiles.
However, the reason for the response to your post, is that I didn't see one of these:
A reps case of samples for the Shell Bond collection.
Would you be interested in buying it? It is not as scratched as it appears in the photo.
http://www.vectis.co.uk/Page/ViewLot.aspx?LotId=525046&Section=182&Start=40
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Thank you for your kind offer but I am afraid I am not a completist collector & have specialised in pieces from the height of 1960s Bondmania therefore your collectible piece does not fit into my limited remit.
In other words, it's crap and not yours anyway so go away :v
As a newcomer to the site, I do not consider Asp9mm's comments "In other words, it's crap and not yours anyway so go away", very welcoming. I am a collector of TV & Film diecast and yes, this was purchased at a Vectis auction. However, it does not fit into my cabinets and sits in a cupboard; something I consider to be a major crime in the world of collecting and I therefore thought that somebody else might get some pleasure from it. My Bond section is shown in the photo below. I apologise if I am not worthy of being on your site Asp9mm but I will now run off back to Planet Diecast.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?tbs=sbi:AMhZZisnRYXCm8U8-Ha00uV5S5HOqyeFf5nqKm-Ta8mIcLzT63K2CBbgjt02gj0e7M1MG3CXHM_1vZOQ7VC5wzxZIaQYiYJZxcDCj3oNKD2vG-suvIBFkpuq6Ra-_1mmhXXDhdlRouUuLs_1ayi1TZNhpKCMDMfisYr0_1073dLyW159BH9AaRGdLDkBU0M6Wde8AwWwZpkeSuoD6La1F0td50-qsOHNXSqNolipUXYOmF5G080HC2fRMMqaulzdPyeqlzhMGGBEm6jjseXo3-VJSVdXaEQxffQ5gzcEYLGApR3pF60yDDraVefSoUDTRJ-VrryHxIy44VXYMYGtEPcVNoPXCWKApV-h9uk8Vk-l-voqEXAOBWygwkFNq1hv-IhPlcYyBrMzjv9NGcVChY5dPhQCl3WtA9MDAXPU1Zlj5aws8zSuatfZGPFTPCCKg5zRlGNU5pTX78CWxCOKJagevi1y8ZfRB3wdrSqUFKx-lz2kmboh4_1xW-NWIVwLfed8dW5B7dvJ9DLh9pAYqzgngNqkv2_1xXPJrpkQkZwnvwp4pAbzUylNFaom1xbHVt1SddQ2DdA_1wKbtRhm6aNOsMrRpsYJev88X7Hcs0xtrRw9XsGJDlYgjJtz0Fh3bWbMXTETZ9OwlaB4UtQQSeBIbyQ2b4cb-RkMavCtBUVmre19bvdknAABkyE73DH3587xPkcWOQ1BEDIk8kf2T42K155o1_1UJYnyW_1B-yyRPCu2egpy6W-GYtddJF4q8lSOfOFwzS1waJlLtCjiYPO_1OaHqBuUN964tOpl4jo8RrYcnVAgUwqT6orUyV6kfS2h20FlTw-nRCRxcL5NJRaf7dpTZp4v3c1wwBS40GtEm1EGTbPsiAgetiGDTMnWRwdMcXxDrXsyVzR3EDCi1MfBXtHVUhtqiUbFvmmpFBQDy24gEp6uyS_1Pxkz50oeTk90AqFcbF9f1LdrrqEsOJPkkSRVsJ4n2XsiaeSd4blSZU5UuBo_1Bvvf9EXWhRCr2sEU-M1KQNq9m72-QhmiE6mLKf6TUeDfuL2CJ7IvnUvXfgUZYbMFz2SgGiDuAtSzWDjxdySADO-EXawKkqyrDmoAI0MTVB_19gN-YZpz_1FmaazpTE789pq2-OrJZqRIT77jYT7qK42Tzl3Nbt_1wtI8grYUr2UT1rTdsp0jCc9NfJy1sKZAv4HEGSMW7N3T3j9gpOCyPNnHu3Itarm2Ni4x6LYiUmguqmE7YXnnFfYjUzEGMV6syRUvy6QrmmyJIY-zbS9btWsminpxxc2-qd9_1DR9GWzJ_1NYlGs7Cmdpoz0eae3-Y3gzP6r0LyoE5MJlQ9-b64f2JJ03FsRLTG18GjcL3F9knb9r0Ava5YJmk5tZHS5fPlCF316ekzWfucXs0olOr0H5TqWz2JERLygcnoqW9JIY7FH2zFaZl36Afyjl_1BeFIlv5epP8xA2WSKUKsWqD8GgC_1x7qGcY8qPsiC6vIL4D_1rSkd9gCMpN7ZGfiVro_1Q-HvI_1SlvYK_1I069PHbc54yxDitUCZKu0zBgPT-gYDjmmIltY4zNrF5FAkgeEQHV6XedJ4EdQlRWN4paCQFuazPcskrplwXdnHQypfKsydKB5Y7I-VvBmCYdllMZ2JemiIygiCwxxmujaNMWPbGhlXIherNKPPCDYd_1vj7-Fk
What a charming person you are.........do you have many friends?
The 'Stock' photo's you refer to are generally from my collection, as you can see from this one.
Although why I feel I should have to justify myself to you is beyond me.
I still seem to be justifying myself to you and I am not really sure why. I actually addressed my post to the gentlemen referred to as Donk and if you bother reading it, you will see that I did introduce myself with as much information as I am happy to share on a public website.
Possibly you could moderate your response's until such time as you get to know someone; "Welcome to the forum, where did you get this from, was it the one sold at Vectis?" Where I come from, that is generally regarded as a nice polite response.
Hi
I don't entirely disagree with you! I was having a bad day at the auction and bought it out of spite!! As mentioned earlier, it doesn't fit with my collection and won't even go into the cabinet. That said, it is a lot nicer than it looks in the Vectis picture. It was quite a popular little set and I thought (at the time) that a set in a case was a good idea!!
Again sorry
Welcome to the forum. That is a sincere comment.
I have spent a lot of time trying to take good photos of items and I have used an auction site's item photo before on eBay when it was the exact same lot I won at that auction. (And if that was a bad practice, I don't know, but if anyone thinks that is wrong, do let me know right here or by PM, please.)
I have just now "filed" in my collection photos of items I sold that I love because the auction house took beautiful photos of them in prep for the sale! Even though I didn't like the items themselves enough to keep them... But man, the photos look sharp.
There are very friendly people here but there are very direct people, also, and they are the same people! "The things we do for England."
I wouldn't hesitate to recommend, by the way, that you shoot fresh photos if you can that show it as less scratched...
Thank you for the welcoming post and advice. Similar to yourself, my whole collection is catalogued with details of the purchase dates, cost, from where they were acquired and any other relevant comments. I also have an archive and in both cases 95% of the photographs are not mine! As you say, they are generally shot in far better conditions than I can create.
With reference to the sale of the item, to be honest I don't really have any intention of selling it; it was only that, whilst researching for the new DB5 model, I came across Donks Modest Collection and thought he might have liked it. I hate collections that are not on display and this particular item is in a cupboard so contrary to Asp9mm's comments about "Hawking goods", I probably would have given it to him for his collection!
Hello Twizzle,
for sure you had a rocky start here - partly because you don't know the people who responded in person.
First of all, I would not hesitate to call Asp9mm my friend and I know that he's highly respected and liked in the 007 world.
His reply may have been a bit rough but we are pretty often faced with "one-hit-wonders" who only register here to advertise things for sale without even saying hello or introduce themself.
See it a bit like a group of fans hanging around in a pub, discussing their collection and then out of the blue someone sneaks in with a random pic and says that he's selling that.
What would you expect as a reaction and what would you do if you where part of that group, particularly if that happens almost on a daily basis?
But imo there is no doubt about one thing: You offer something to sell here: You use a real picture!!
Everything else is misleading and bad manners. Full Stop!
As for these car models, there may have been made millions of each variant and the attache case is cheap - and I mean really cheap crap.
If you are really having a good collection, you may agree - sticking with your statement will only make you look silly here.
Welcome to AJB by the way - the best James Bond Collector's community - no matter if you like it or not
Dalton - the weak and weepy Bond!
Hi Higgins
Thank you for taking the time to justify your friends comments; at least I now have a better understanding of the reaction.
They're all crazy in there.