Auction specialists turn movie detectives as suits worn by sharp dresser Sir Sean Connery go under hammer
HE was renowned for being a sharp dresser and two suits showing Sir Sean Connery’s sense of style are about to be auctioned.
Both are believed to have been worn in films made by the Bond star in the 1980s and they go under the hammer tomorrow.
Specialists have had the enviable task of watching the late Sir Sean’s movies in a bid to trace the suits to the correct films.
It is thought one was worn during The Untouchables while the other is either Five Days One Summer or Never Say Never Again.
Cathy Marsden, Lyon & Turnbull’s Rare Manuscripts & Books specialist, said: “Our job involves a lot of research and we had great fun with the unusual task of trying to identify in which films in which Sir Sean Connery wore the suits.
“We have managed to narrow down the cream suit to either Five Days One Summer or Never Say Never Again and we think the grey suit might have featured in The Untouchables.
“I am really looking forward to this sale, which has a range of items across popular and high culture with some fascinating and historic stories behind them.”
The online auction, being held by Edinburghheadquartered Lyon & Turnbull, also features a postcard, inscribed “last post from St Kilda”, sent just before its evacuation in August 1930.
It is part of a wider archive relating to the remote Scottish island.
A document with Mahatma Gandi’s fingerprints – perhaps the only existing example of them – is another of the highlights of Lyon & Turnbull’s eclectic Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs sale.
The sheet of paper attached to cardboard serves as a record of the political leader’s activism and role in the peace movement in the early20th-century.
Other lots include a copy of Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T E Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, who became renowned for his role in the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.
As part of a private edition for subscribers, 211 copies were printed with 32 incomplete copies given to friends and people involved in the Arab campaign.
A rare first edition copy, second impression hardback, of the first in the series of the seven Harry Potter novels, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone will also go under the hammer at the auction.