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?
2 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.
3 posted on
01/03/2014 11:34:29 AM PST by
Gamecock
(Celebrating 20,000 posts of dubious quality.)
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.
7 posted on
01/03/2014 11:39:13 AM PST by
Scoutmaster
(I'd rather be at Philmont)
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.
13 posted on
01/03/2014 11:45:20 AM PST by
PowderMonkey
(WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
To: deoetdoctrinae
16 posted on
01/03/2014 11:47:34 AM PST by
South40
(Liberalism is a Disease)
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: deoetdoctrinae
Dead Clyde
Dead clyde.
Dead Bonnie
Proof they didn't escape and go off to live in Mexico like so many other outlaws were said to have done after they were "dead".
Years ago, I had a man tell me that Bonnie gained 14 pounds from all the lead in her. I'm a little skeptical of it.
When she was shot she had a half eaten sandwich and a pistol in her lap.
21 posted on
01/03/2014 11:51:51 AM PST by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
To: deoetdoctrinae; mickie; pax_et_bonum; hoosiermama; Maine Mariner; seekthetruth; seenenuf; ...
BONNIE PARKER'S LAMENT
Oh, Clyde took the low road
And I took the low road
And we'll be in Hades forever
And me and my true love will never kill again
After eatin' lead in the bonnie braes of Loos-iana
Leni
To: deoetdoctrinae; Revolting cat!
47 posted on
01/03/2014 3:11:04 PM PST by
a fool in paradise
("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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