Bond author gun sold for £12,000

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A revolver owned by James Bond author Ian Fleming has been sold at auction in London for £12,000.

The engraved Colt Python .357 Magnum was specially made for the author and presented to him by the Colt Company.

It was accompanied by a letter from the firearms company and a copy of the 1959 Bond novel Goldfinger, in which villain Scaramanga uses a Colt gun.

Fictional spy Bond shunned the Colt in favour of a weapon that could be easily concealed under a dinner jacket.

The Colt, which is still in working condition, is engraved with the words: "Presented To Ian Fleming By Colt's Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co".

Fleming was a journalist and banker, before working in Naval Intelligence during World War II, where he rose to the rank of Commander Fleming and was right-hand man to spymaster Admiral John Godfrey.

After the war, he went to Jamaica for a naval conference and fell in love with the island, where he wrote the Bond novels at his home, Goldeneye.
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Anyone else notice whats wrong with this BBC report???..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6505711.stm

A Cookie to the first one who spots it!! :)
 
I think Someone has put em straight!!...

It's been Edited now!..

A revolver owned by James Bond author Ian Fleming has been sold at auction in London for £12,000.

The engraved Colt Python .357 Magnum was specially made for the author and presented to him by the Colt Company.

It was accompanied by a letter from the firearms company and a copy of the 1959 Bond novel Goldfinger.

A Colt was used by villain Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun, but 007 shunned the Colt in favour a gun which could be hidden under a dinner jacket.

The auctioned gun, which is still in working condition, is engraved with the words: "Presented To Ian Fleming By Colt's Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co".

Fleming was a journalist and banker, before working in Naval Intelligence during World War II, where he rose to the rank of Commander Fleming and was right-hand man to spymaster Admiral John Godfrey.

After the war, he went to Jamaica for a naval conference and fell in love with the island, where he wrote the Bond novels at his home, Goldeneye.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6505711.stm

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