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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/connery-bust-unveiled-in-estonia.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="British Ambassador Peter Cater with the bronze bust Sir Sean Connery" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-connery-bust-unveiled-in-estonia.jpg" alt="British Ambassador Peter Cater with the bronze bust Sir Sean Connery"/></a></p>
<p>Sir Sean Connery, already honoured with an Oscar and knighthood, can now count a bronze sculpture in the Estonian capital among his tributes.</p>
<p>The bust of Scotland&#8217;s most famous actor was unveiled by British Ambassador Peter Carter outside Tallinn&#8217;s Scottish Club, whose members include Estonians enamoured with Scotland and a handful of expatriate Scots.</p>
<p>&#8220;Sir Sean Connery is, without a doubt, an icon,&#8221; Carter told dozens of invited guests. &#8220;He is variously known as James Bond or the sexiest man of the century. He&#8217;s a great British actor, a great Scot actor and a great symbol for Scotland.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Scottish Club, which started as a whisky sampling society in the early 1990s, got the idea of honouring &#8220;Scots who have made a difference&#8221; a few years back, said president Mart Haamer. It already has a bust of 18th-century Scottish poet Robert Burns.</p>
<p>Haamer read a brief statement from the 80-year-old actor, who won an Academy Award for a supporting role in The Untouchables.</p>
<p>&#8220;One cannot help but be flattered by the Scottish Club&#8217;s gesture. My best wishes to the members of the club and to all the people who made this possible,&#8221; the statement said.</p>
<p>A vocal supporter of the pro-independence Scottish National Party, Sir Sean lives in the Bahamas and has said he will not live in Scotland again until it gains independence from the United Kingdom.</p>
<p>However, Carter noted that &#8220;the fact that he has accepted a knighthood, suggests that he is also a great supporter of the queen.&#8221;</p>
<p>The 14,000 US dollar bust by Estonian sculptor Tiiu Kirsipuu was financed through private donations and depicts a bearded Connery at a mature age.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think the older he gets, the more charming he becomes,&#8221; Kirsipuu said.</p>
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