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MAFIA, CRIME AND OUTLAW ORIGINAL WIRE PHOTO GROUPING
Currency:USD
Category:Collectibles
Start Price:600.00 USD
Estimated At:1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD
SOLD
360.00USDto floor+ buyer's premium
This item SOLD at 2012 Sep 28 @ 21:45UTC-04:00 : AST/EDT
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Excellent group of 43 original wire photographs of criminals, Mafiosi, crime scenes and mayhem spanning the years from the Twenties to the Sixties, showing many of the most notorious figures of all time. Included is: Prohibition agents raid illegal liquor still, dump mash on front lawn (1920s original), 5x9 in.; Shipment of liquor arrives by boat during Prohibition, reserved for foreign dignitaries (1920s) 5x9 in.; "Traveling Barroom Seized" for violating Volstead Act; flasks resemble life vest (1920s orig.) 5x9 in.; Agents test bootleg beer in NYC, declare it as good as before Prohibition (1920s orig.) 5x9 in.; Wife of Legs Diamond leaves hospital in tears after hearing his last words 1930 5x9 in.; Targeting gangster vice and crooked politicians, Samuel Seabury arrives at Governor's Office 1930 7x9 in.; Mayor of NYC, Jimmy Walker, was target of Seabury Commission and resigned (undated orig.) 7x9 in.; Portrait of the Jurors hearing the trial of Al Capone on income tax evasion charges 1931 8x10 in.; NYC Arrest photograph of Vincent Coll, killed by bootlegger Dutch Schultz 1932 5x9 in.; Roger Touhy gang led to face charges they kidnapped brewer William Hamm Jr. 1933 7x9 in.; "Three Finger" Jack White Shot Down in lavish Chicago apartment 1934 7x9 in.; Jess Doyle in custody on suspicion he participated in kidnapping of banker Edward Bremer 1935 7x9 in.; John Dillinger led by Police to a lineup, identified as killer of Policeman in Chicago (1930s original); Dillinger's machinegun, bulletproof vest, .45 Colt and ammunition recovered after his death 1934 7x9 in.; Thompson submachine gun recovered from Pretty Boy Floyd's car after his death (undated orig.) 7.5x9 in.; Barker Gang's Alvin Karpis and co-defendant led to trial for kidnapping William Hamm Jr. 1936 7x9 in.; NYC strikebreaker Sam "Chowderhead" Cohen appears before labor panel 1936 7x9 in.; Prison cell occupied by Richard Loeb after he was slain by fellow inmate 1936 5x7 in.; Dutch Schultz lawyer Richard "Dixie" Davis leaves jail to visit dentist 1938 5x9 in.; Police Chief in Puerto Rico holds Dillinger death mask, 1939 7x9 in.; Reles target Louis "Lepke" Buchalter smiles in handcuffs after surrendering 1939 5x9 in.; Informant Abe Reles smiles after missing date to testify against Bugsy Siegel in 1940 5x9 in.; Abe Reles death plunge diagram of Half Moon Hotel exterior 1941 (w Police & dead body) 8x11 in.; The body of Abe Reles carried by NYPD to the morgue wagon 1941 5x9 in.; Wife of Abe "Kid Twist" Reles weeps at his burial in Brooklyn 1941 8x11 in.; Bugsy girl Virginia Hill is locked out of her house by Treasury agents (undated original) 8x10 in.; Bugsy Siegel murder witness Allen Smiley acquitted of assault, poses with Tommy Dorsey & wife 7x9 in.; Bugsy Siegel underboss Mickey Cohen forced to sell his gun collection to pay lawyers 1951 8x10 in.; Address where Willie Sutton lived when fingered by civilian do-gooder Arnold Schuster 1952 7x9 in.; Willie Sutton is held on charges of possessing revolver found at his rooming house 1952 8x10 in.; Diagram of spot where Arnold Schuster was shot and killed on orders from Albert Anastasia 7x9 in.; Albert Anastasia stands with his legal counsel after pleading guilty to tax evasion 1955 7x8 in.; Albert Anastasia is rolled over by NYPD detectives after his barbershop murder 1957 7x8 in.; Albert Anastasia's body lies prone and covered with a sheet in Arthur Grasso barbershop 1957 7x9 in.; Rackets figure Johnny Dio pleads Fifth after slugging newspaper cameraman 1957 7x9 in.; Ex-Boxer, Ex-Con and hijacker Leo Milito shot down on Lower East Side 1958 7x9 in.; Arrested at Apalachin, Paul Castellano arrives at NYC courthouse 1959 8x10 in.; Bugsy murder suspect Mickey Cohen is led in handcuffs to Alcatraz Island 1962 6x9 in.; Lee Harvey Oswald, in pain from gunshot, is taken by stretcher to Parkland Hospital 1963 5x9 in.; Jack Ruby all smiles in a portrait with a Carousel Club showgirl taken year before shooting 1963 7x9 in.; Crowd in Dealey Plaza cheers upon hearing Ruby shot Oswald (photo by Eamon Kennedy 1963) 8x10 in.; Lee Harvey Oswald's body escorted by Sheriff's Department (photo by Eamon Kennedy 1963) 8x10 in; Mafia figure Santo Trafficante leaves jail after arrest at Queens, NYC restaurant 1966 7x9 in. All in generally very good to fine condition. A nearly impossible grouping to assemble.
Estimate: $1,200 - 1,500.
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