Posted on 06/27/2011 2:26:47 AM PDT by Daffynition
The last remaining original portrait of one of the Wild West's most notorious outlaws sold at auction Saturday for a whopping $2.3 million.
The only known tintype photograph of Billy the Kid sold at Brian Lebel's 22nd Annual Old West Show & Auction in Colorado to a 71-year-old Florida businessman.
"I love the Old West," said William Koch, who lives in Palm Beach. "I plan on enjoying it and discreetly sharing it. I think I'll display it in a few small museums."
The photograph, believed to have been taken outside a saloon at Fort Sumner, New Mexico in either 1879 or 1880, was expected to fetch only as much as $400,000.
"When the bidding ended, the whole room erupted in clapping and people leapt to their feet," Melissa McCracken, spokeswoman for the auction, told CNN. "I've never experienced anything like this before."
In the photo, Billy the Kid is seen with his 1873 Winchester carbine in one hand and a Colt revolver at his hip.
Really scruffy looking kid, but who’s going to tell him he needs to dress better?
So hang onto your OJ pictures....
Apologies, posting from phone !
Right click, save as.. There ! Now I saved 2.3 million bucks ! Obama’s plan works ! I’ll have no problem with this economic disaster as long as I count theft as income !
Tintypes are reverse images. It’s this that led people to believe the “Kid” was left handed. He wasn’t.
LOL...you’re rich!
See below:
He kind of looks like Charlie Chaplin without the Hitler ‘stache.
I have a picture on my computer that was taken about 10 years ago, it is of my niece and me sitting on a couch with my arm around her. It's one that I scanned and put on my computer, not digital direct down load. It was on my computer for a few years before I noticed that I had my left arm around her and my left hand with all its fingers showing.
It freaked me out because my middle finger, left hand, had been amputated for years before that picture was taken, yet there it was in all its glory magically back on my left hand.
I had to dig to find the original hard copy photo but when I found it my right arm and hand were around her shoulders. My scanner had reversed the image.
A clue that I missed entirely, was that the supposed left hand didn't have a wedding band on it that I always wore on the left ring finger.
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Then and now. Funny, yet pathetically sad.
Something in you scanner setting must have been checked to reverse the image. As for the Kid’s image being reversed, it’s pretty easy to tell. The cartridge port on Winchester rifles is on the right side of the receiver. In the photo, it’s shown on the left side. Voila...a reverse image.
There were actually two of these tintypes of the Kid, taken at the same time. One has apparently been lost to history. Any number of other photos crop up at times, claiming to be of the Kid. All have little provenance to claim authentication. There have also been a few individuals, Brushy Bill Roberts being the most well known, who’ve claimed to be the Kid, having survived being killed in Ft Sumner in 1881. These frauds are the reason behind Bill Richardson going along with the idea of opening the Kid’s grave for DNA evidence. That tells me Richardson is an easy mark, along with being a publicity hound...
The Kid died in Ft Sumner, NM in July 1881 at the hands of Lincoln County Sheriff Pat Garrett. Case closed.
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