In 2018 when a PPK surfaced on the auction circuit claiming with provenance to be the actual PPK which actor Bernard "M" Lee had brought to Pinewood Film Studios and used in the famous scene in question some including one who should bloody well have known better again posed the question "are you sure the Walther pistol was not a PPK?" This pistol was later withdrawn from sale. When Christies announced to the world that part of the future auction inventory would include a Walther PP and not a PPK they were contacted by a number of respected Bond aficionados who informed them they were in error! I was then asked are you 100% sure? the weapon said character handed to Sean Connery's 007 from the second its magazine left the wooden case to the second Sean holstered the weapon its profile was that of a PP pistol and not a PPK! ![]() ![]() Back in 2006 while doing a spot of consultancy for Christies auction house, the then Bond armourers and a major UK based retail prop emporium I was responsible for announcing to the world that despite what the armourer/quartermaster or Major Boothroyd character had said on screen in 1962's production of Dr.No.
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