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    The Ian Fleming Centenary: Postmarks (United States)
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Ian Fleming would have been one hundred years old on May 28, 2008.Numerous commemorations were scheduled to coincide approximately with that date, and the year that followed is generally referred to as "The Ian Fleming Centenary."

One of several ways that James Bond Watches honored the man and his legacy on that date was to create a number of envelopes with images specifically related to Ian Fleming. These were then stamped and mailed from two locations. One was the campus of Indiana University at Bloomington, where Mr. Fleming's personal, bound manuscripts for his James Bond books are archived at the Lilly Library. The second, from Southeast Michigan, where James Bond Watches is based.

    
             
   

I personally celebrated The Ian Fleming Centenary at the Lilly Library on May 28, 2008. (Among other things, I was there completing research on my article for the February 2009 issue of WatchTime magazine, "Found: James Bond's Rolex — James Bond, like his creator Ian Fleming, wore a Rolex Explorer I.")

Following are exclusive images made for James Bond Watches by Dell Deaton. These are available for download at their highest resolution in a variety of aspect ratios, for personal use only. © 2008-2009 Dell Deaton, All Rights Reserved. Printed USA: Contact Proteus Publishing for other use permissions. [link]

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Image #1: Close-up on the U.S. Postal Service hand-cancelled Postmark, Bloomington, IN (Indiana); see Image #6 for entire envelope.
   
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Image #2: The image featured on this envelope is that of the Rolex Explorer owned personally by Ian Fleming and referred to as the literary James Bond watch in the book On Her Majesty's Secret Service. This Posting is believed to be the first time the wristwatch view shown here has ever been published or made available on the Internet. The Postmark is machine-cancelled, Bloomington, IN (Indiana).
   
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Image #3: Same image as featured in #2, above. The Postmark is machine-cancelled, Detroit, MI (Michigan).
   
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Image #4: Same image as featured in #2, above. The Postmark is hand-cancelled, Bloomington, IN (Indiana).
   
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Image #5: The image featured on this envelope was provided to James Bond Watches by the Imperial War Museum and is used with permission. It features, of course, Sean Connery and Ian Fleming on one of the sets for the EON Productions James Bond film, Dr. No. The Postmark is machine-cancelled, Bloomington, IN (Indiana).
   
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Image #6: The image featured on this envelope is that of a Rolex Submariner Date, exclusive to James Bond Watches. As of The Ian Fleming Centenary, the Submariner Date was the last Rolex model of any kind worn in a James Bond film (by actor Timothy Dalton, as Agent 007 in Licence to Kill). The Postmark is hand-cancelled, Bloomington, IN (Indiana); see Image #1 for close-up detail.
   
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Posted by Dell Deaton, February 21, 2009 at 10:54 AM

    
   
   
   

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