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speaking loudly..” Finally, an interesting note, “popular gold in teeth. Steel caps = service teeth” possibly foreshad- owing the character Sol ‘Horror’ Horowitz in The Spy Who Loved Me , further adapted as the char- acter of Jaws in later Bond films. Aside from the conference, Fleming travelled around Istanbul and witnessed a riot after news broke that the birthplace of Kemal Ataturk had been bombed by Greek terrorists, and was intro- duced to a number of leading businessmen and government officials whose names and person - alities would go on to appear in From Russia With Love . Perhaps most notable among these was Fleming’s guide for the trip, the Oxford-educated shipowner, Nazim Kalkavan, who would have provided much of the background on Russian spies. It is likely that Kalkavan forms part of the basis for the character of Darko Kerim Bay, Bond’s Russian guide in From Russia with Love . Gil- bert and Pearson both note that the plethora of similarities between the character and Kalkavan suggest otherwise. PROVENANCE: Sold Sotheby’s, July 1989.
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