Showing posts with label Auction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Auction. Show all posts

Monday, June 27, 2011

OUTLAW BILLY THE KID'S PIC SELLS FOR $2.6 MILLION

HE'S still one the World's best known outlaws more than 100 years since his violent death, but Billy The Kid remains one of the icons of the old west.
And now what is believed to the only surviving authenticated portrait of the gunfighter, who according to legend killed 21 men has sold for more than $2.3 million.
The tintype which went to private collector William Koch shows the outlaw dressed in a rumpled hat and layers of clothes, including a bulky sweater.  One hand rests on a Winchester carbine on his right side and a Colt revolver holstered on his left side.
Organizers at Brian Lebel's 22nd Annual Old West Show & Auction said the image was the most expensive piece ever sold at the event.

Saturday, June 4, 2011

AL CAPONE'S GUN COULD FETCH $100K AT AUCTION

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TO the man himself even today's $100,000 price tag would be little more than chump change, but you can bet he didn't pay that sort of money for the Colt .38 when he bought it. 
But the iconic gangster's nickel plated pistol is expected to go for at least that amount when it is auctioned by Christie's later this month. 
It is not known whether it was used in any murders although the one time king of the Chicago rackets was thought to have personally killed several people. A spokesman for the auction house Leonie Ashfield said: "We've had film memorabilia but nothing related to the actual Al Capone in the last 10 years."