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Pistol pulled from Bonnie Parker's bloody skirt set for auction
Msn news ^
| 12-28-13
| Tim Ghianni of Reuters
Posted on 01/03/2014 11:30:56 AM PST by 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.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History
KEYWORDS: auction; banglist; bonnieandclyde; bonnieparker; clydebarrow; frankhamer; goodriddance; knoxville; louisiana; pistol
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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.
To: deoetdoctrinae
Are we sure this isn’t the pistol from the movie?
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posted on
01/03/2014 11:33:10 AM PST
by
fwdude
( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
To: deoetdoctrinae
For some reason, for a brief second, I wondered what Bonnie Franklin was doing with pistol and a bloody dress.
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posted on
01/03/2014 11:34:29 AM PST
by
Gamecock
(Celebrating 20,000 posts of dubious quality.)
To: fwdude
Sounds like they have extremely good documentation, which is one of the things that is driving the estimated final price up quite a bit.
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posted on
01/03/2014 11:34:34 AM PST
by
deoetdoctrinae
(Gun-free zones are playgrounds for felons.)
To: Gamecock
Bonnie Franklin is deceased.
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posted on
01/03/2014 11:35:54 AM PST
by
Mears
To: fwdude
Not a pistol but...
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posted on
01/03/2014 11:38:05 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
To: deoetdoctrinae
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.
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posted on
01/03/2014 11:39:13 AM PST
by
Scoutmaster
(I'd rather be at Philmont)
To: Mears
I know.
So is Bonnie Parker.
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posted on
01/03/2014 11:39:33 AM PST
by
Gamecock
(Celebrating 20,000 posts of dubious quality.)
To: Mears
And Mackenzie Phillips isn’t. Weird.
To: BenLurkin
Here is the pistol in question.
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posted on
01/03/2014 11:40:11 AM PST
by
deoetdoctrinae
(Gun-free zones are playgrounds for felons.)
To: Scoutmaster
Man oh man, that’s a lot of greenbacks!
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posted on
01/03/2014 11:42:33 AM PST
by
deoetdoctrinae
(Gun-free zones are playgrounds for felons.)
To: Scoutmaster
PT Barnum was right, there is a sucker born every minute.
To: deoetdoctrinae
"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.
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posted on
01/03/2014 11:45:20 AM PST
by
PowderMonkey
(WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
To: FRiends
As far as the left is concerned, Americans cannot
be trusted with these high capacity lead delivery systems.
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posted on
01/03/2014 11:45:38 AM PST
by
deoetdoctrinae
(Gun-free zones are playgrounds for felons.)
To: deoetdoctrinae
Where is the blood if it was taken from a bloody skirt?
To: deoetdoctrinae
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posted on
01/03/2014 11:47:34 AM PST
by
South40
(Liberalism is a Disease)
To: goat granny
Just guessing, but perhaps the embalmer cleaned it up a bit.
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posted on
01/03/2014 11:48:52 AM PST
by
deoetdoctrinae
(Gun-free zones are playgrounds for felons.)
To: deoetdoctrinae
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.
To: deoetdoctrinae
Pistol pulled from Bonnie Parker's bloody skirt set for auction Oops... never mind... it was just a .38 caliber tampon.
To: goat granny
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.
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