Auction Date:2013 Dec 11 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Old West outlaw (1844–1916) and leader of the Younger Gang, who eventually turned from a life of crime to Wild West shows and public speaking. A pair of Tower double lock handcuffs worn by Cole Younger while being transferred to serve his life sentence. The working iron cuffs are adjoined by three small circular lengths of chain, with a key hole for each side. One wrist bears a Towers patent stamp and five patent dates ranging from 1874–1882. Accompanied by a typed letter of provenance, dated July 1, 1925, which reads, in full: “These hand-cuffs were worn by Cole Younger, the famous bandit when taken to the Stillwater (Minnesota) State Penitentiary for life imprisonment soon after being captured during one of the last raids of the James Gang at Northfield, Minnesota. The cuffs were given to ‘Ford, The Penologist’ King,’ in Vaudeville by Henry Wolfer, Warden of the above named institution in 1910—who in turn has presented them to his old friend John Loftus for his Antique Shop in Flint, Michigan.” Letter is signed at the conclusion, “Ford, The Penologist King.” Also accompanied by correspondence and information from the Minnesota Correctional Facility–Stillwater, which provided a list of the institution’s wardens, a photocopy of a page from a June 1877 Time Book, listing Younger and his two brothers, and biographical information on Henry Wolfer. The Robert Davis Collection.
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