Woodlands Park, Iver Heath, Bucks: an outstanding residential and sporting property including the historically famous Georgian house Woodlands Park, Iver Heath; freehold with vacant possession except 45 acres let; offered for sale by auction by Collins & Collins & Rawlence at The Washington Hotel, Curzon Street, London, W.1., Monday 22 October 1962, at 3 p.m.; solicitors Ashurst, Morris, Crisp & Co. // Plan of Woodlands Park Estate—Iver Heath— Bucks—for sale by auction 1962'. A map from the dawn of the James Bond phenomenon: the 1962 auction sale catalogue for Woodlands Park, Iver Heath, offered by Collins & Collins & Rawlence as “an outstanding residential and sporting property” of about 65 acres. The illustrated particulars describe a Georgian-origin country house with reception rooms, billiard room, six principal bedrooms, cottages, outbuildings, gardens, paddocks, lake and river frontage, and note earlier associations with Sir Richard Fairey, Lord Curzon, King Edward VII and King Victor Emmanuel of Italy. The auction took place on 22 October 1962, fourteen days after Dr. No's cinematic release. The property was bought at the sale by John Dennis Bennett, the present cataloguer’s grandfather, who, according to family tradition, outbid Harry Saltzman, co-producer of the newly released Bond film and then seeking a family house near Pinewood Studios. Following the success of the early Bond films, Saltzman returned with what family lore remembers as “an offer too good to refuse” and acquired Woodlands Park from Bennett. Alan Whicker later interviewed Saltzman there for The World of James Bond, the Whicker’s World documentary made around You Only Live Twice. With photographic plates and a folding coloured estate plan, this is an unusually evocative survival linking Home Counties country-house life, Pinewood, and the birth of the Bond phenomenon. . Collins & Collins & Rawlence, auctioneers; Rawlinsons (Printers) Ltd., Northwood, Middlesex, printers. Published Monday 22nd October 1962. Country-house auction particulars / 16 page estate sale catalogue plus covers including two pages of interior photographic plates and folding coloured estate plan. Size 45 x 36 cm | 17.5 x 14.0 inches. Condition: Good; suitable for framing. Original stapled printed wrappers with photographic cover illustration. Covers dust-soiled, with vertical crease. Internally clean. Folding coloured estate plan in good condition with original folds. Size stated is for the estate plan when unfolded; the size of the catalogue when closed is c. 19x25cm. Please check the scan for any blemishes prior to making your purchase. Please contact us if you would like to arrange to view this map. This is a folding map. There is nothing printed on the reverse side of the map, which is plain. The sale catalogue is printed on both sides of the page. Tags: 1962, Ashurst, Buckinghamshire, Collins & Collins & Rawlence, Curzon Street, Iver, Iver Heath, Map, Ordnance Survey, Washington, Woodlands, Woodlands Park, Woodlands Park auction catalogue

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