The gearknob in the photo above has just been sold for the rather surprising price of STG£41,000. That's rather a lot of money for something that would cost €5.99 down at Halfords, so you're probably suspecting at this point that this is no ordinary gearknob.
And if the little red button visible under the cap hasn't already given it away, this is the knob from one of the Aston Martin DB5s used in the filming of vintage Bond movies Goldfinger and Thunderball. Yup, that's the little button that fires the passenger ejector seat. Joking? We never joke about our work...
BMT 216A (for that was the registration number of the famous DB5) returned to Aston from Eon Productions after filming and, according to Aston, Work Order 39237 'REMOVING NON STANDARD EQUIPMENT AND REBUILDING AS STANDARD DB5' happened. The knob then sat in a cupboard at Aston for nigh on forty years before coming to light recently.
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