Fleming’s Walking Stick
Ian Fleming, James Bond's creator shared the tastes of his fictional secret agent – fast cars, golf, gambling and beautiful women. Fascinated by international intrigue, in 1939 he was recruited as assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence, who was involved with several operations during the war, including secret preparations for the D-Day landings and a response to a planned Nazi invasion of Spain that bore a name Bond fans can recognize: "Operation Golden Eye."
Fleming's one-of-a-kind walking stick featuring an embedded glass "golden eye" grip is a reference to the World War II intelligence operation he helped plan and to his house in Jamaica where he wrote the Bond novels.
On loan from the Michael L. VanBlaricum Collection.
