and Billy the Kid’s former friend and the sheriff who gunned him down?
if so could the
19th century tintype photograph bought for $10 at a flea market really be worth $10
Million? back in 2011, a North Carolina defence attorney named Frank Abrams
bought a 19th century tintype photograph for $10 at a flea market, He assumed
that the photo, which shows five cowboys mugging it for the camera, was little
more than a nifty relic from the Wild West, but as Jacey Fortin reports for the New York Times, experts now believe that one of the men in the image is famed outlaw Billy the
Kid, who appears to be posing with the lawman who ultimately killed him, Abrams
began to suspect that he had unknowingly acquired a historical treasure after
he saw a 2015 television program about the discovery of a photo of Billy
playing croquet, the picture was valued at around $5 million in 2015, according
to Kim Vallez of Albuquerque’s KRQE News, a handwriting expert in Texas also matched a signature on
the image to ten known samples of Garrett’s handwriting, reports Terry Tang of
the Associated Press, experts say that the photo was likely taken at some point
between 1875 and 1880. It is not clear how the image ended up at a North
Carolina flea market, but Abrams tells the Times that he believes the photo
once belonged to Marshall Ashmun Upson, a journalist who helped Garrett write a
posthumous biography of Billy the Kid, the attorney has said that he has no
plans to sell it, “I feel like one of the luckiest people in the world,” he
tells KQRE News. “To find this is a privilege,” if only I could find a picture like that!
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