The semi-automatic pistol used by Sean Connery in the James Bond film “Dr. No” goes up for auction on Thursday. The Walther PP gun is expected to fetch between $150,000 and $200,000 at Julien’s ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The handgun used by the late Sean Connery in the first James Bond film is the star attraction in a Hollywood auction next month. The semi automatic Walther PP gun, which along ...
The first double-action pistol that really worked, the Walther PP (for Polizei Pistole) changed how semi-automatic triggers would operate. Originally a police and pocket pistol, the double-action ...
Rock Island Auction Company, which specializes in the sale of historic firearms, is offering a factory engraved, gold-plated Walther PP pistol once owned by King Carol II of Romania, who was known as ...
The de-activated gun was used by Connery in "Dr. No" in 1962. Connery, who originated the James Bond role on screen, died on Oct. 31 at age 90. "The silhouette of 007 holding this gun would go on to ...
It’s like shooting a cork from a fistful of barbed wire. You won’t hit anyone, but it’s okay, because if you did hit them, they’d just get really mad. That’s the sleek but basically useless PPK, with ...
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Julien’s is aiming to really blow collectors away with it’s latest sale. Figuratively, that is. The auction house is offering a trove of bangin’ Hollywood memorabilia, including the iconic gun Sean ...
A semi-automatic Walther PP gun used by the late actor Sean Connery in the 1962 film "Dr. No" is seen in an undated photo before an auction in Beverly Hills, California LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The ...