LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A handgun utilized by the late Sean Connery within the first James Bond movie offered for $256,000 at public sale in Beverly Hills on Thursday, topping earlier estimates for the piece of Hollywood historical past, Julien’s Auctions stated.

The deactivated semi-automatic Walther PP pistol, which together with its smaller mannequin the PPK grew to become one of many movie franchise’s best-known photographs, was utilized by Connery within the film “Dr. No” in 1962.

Connery, the primary James Bond within the franchise, died on Oct. 31 on the age of 90.

Julien’s stated the successful bidder, who requested to stay nameless, was an American who had seen each James Bond film along with his or her youngsters. The public sale home had beforehand estimated that the gun would fetch between $150,000 and $200,000.

A helmet created for Tom Cruise in “Prime Gun” additionally offered on the public sale for $108,000, whereas a sword utilized by Bruce Willis in “Pulp Fiction” fetched $35,200.

(Reporting by Lisa Richwine; Modifying by Karishma Singh)