Pistol pulled from Bonnie Parker's bloody skirt set for auction

Msn news ^ | 12-28-13 | Tim Ghianni of Reuters

[deoetdoctrinae]

The winning bidder will also receive historic photos and documentation of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow's last stand, when the partners in life and crime were ambushed by law enforcement officers in Louisiana.

[deoetdoctrinae]

This will be auctioned locally, but I won't be there. At the figure they are estimating ($125,000 or more) this would be way out of my league.

[fwdude]

Are we sure this isn’t the pistol from the movie?

[Gamecock]

For some reason, for a brief second, I wondered what Bonnie Franklin was doing with pistol and a bloody dress.

[deoetdoctrinae]

Sounds like they have extremely good documentation, which is one of the things that is driving the estimated final price up quite a bit.

[Mears]

Bonnie Franklin is deceased.

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[BenLurkin]

Not a pistol but...

[Scoutmaster]

An snub-nosed .38 special found taped to the inside of Bonnie Parker's thigh recently sold for $264,000.

The Colt .45 recovered from the waistband of Clyde Barrow's pants sold for $240,000.

I think both came from Frank Hamer's collection - and both sold for well above the auction estimate.

[Gamecock]

I know.

So is Bonnie Parker.

[Travis T. OJustice]

And Mackenzie Phillips isn’t. Weird.

[deoetdoctrinae]

Here is the pistol in question.

[deoetdoctrinae]

Man oh man, that’s a lot of greenbacks!

[goat granny]

PT Barnum was right, there is a sucker born every minute.

[PowderMonkey]

"According to the affidavit accompanying the pistol, Charles Francis "Boots" Bailey, an embalmer who handled Bonnie Parker's body, gave the pistol to Robert Dawson Hightower, the 12-year-old son of his colleague, Vern Hightower, at Louisiana's Conger Funeral Home."

(Sigh)...a very different America then. Very different. One in which a 12-year old boy could receive such a trophy, be trusted with it, and not have his benefactor hounded to death by the Brady Bunch.

[deoetdoctrinae]

As far as the left is concerned, Americans cannot
be trusted with these high capacity lead delivery systems.

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[goat granny]

Where is the blood if it was taken from a bloody skirt?

[South40]

[deoetdoctrinae]

Just guessing, but perhaps the embalmer cleaned it up a bit.

[lee martell]

That historic firearm might have been the inspiration for the old TV show “Pistols & Petticoats”, which came on Saturday night, right after “Petticoat Junction”, with Bea Bernadette and Edgar Buchanan, brought to you by Oxydol and Timex.

[Cementjungle]

Pistol pulled from Bonnie Parker's bloody skirt set for auction

Oops... never mind... it was just a .38 caliber tampon.

[doorgunner69]

Nickle plated, but you have to hope someone stripped it down and cleaned out the inner workings, other wise the thing could be welded shut inside. Blood be very corrosive.

Wife inherited a 1908 Colt .380 hammerless and I had to totally disassemble to degunk it. Guns that old that have been neglected can be ruined.