 The Golden Gun in _Man with the Golden Gun, The (1974)_ (qv)  consisted of a number of gold components from Pistols Scaramangas  personal effects. These included: A gold 15 x 1.5 cm fountain pen  which became the gun barrel; a 8 x 4 cm gold cigarette lighter which  formed the hammer and bullet chamber; a 10 x 6 cm gold cigarette  case doubled as the guns magazine hand grip (or gun butt or  handle); whilst a solid gold cuff link from his shirt cuff was  adjoined to the cigarette case turned into the guns trigger. In the  movie, custom made 23 carat golden bullets with nickel trace  elements were manufactured for the gun by Eastern expert Portugese  gunsmith Lazar. It fired single shot 23 carat 4.2 mm golden bullets  with nickel trace elements whereas in the Ian Fleming (I) (qv)  novel of the same name, The Golden Gun was just a gold plated .45  caliber Colt 45 revolver that fired silver jacketed solid gold  bullets.