Great finds - Billy the Kid

[Armistead]

Never know what u buy sometimes..

http://nypost.com/2015/10/13/this-billy-the-kid-photo-bought-for-2-is-worth-5-million/

We had a man at the flea market here buy a Bowie type knife made by Black for $5 that later had a value placed at 10K.

My best cheap buy was several photo albums packed in a junk box lot for 20 bucks. Think I've posted photos in the past, but a total of 4 from the mid 1800's to around 1920 of what appeared to be the same family, a few CW tin types and the rest silver nitrates, mostly of ships, some historical sites. Several pics I've never determined yet, officials standing in from of the White House, with horse and buggies showing.

[eddie]

Yeah, that couple really got lucky there, didn't they!!!

[Platapus]

Sadly, that has not happened to me yet... but that does not stop me from tryin'

[Aktungbby]

Known 1879 sold 2.3 million>http://www.truewestmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/jun11_billy-the-kid-tintype.jpg earlier:1878-looks like the same hat!>http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/151015072224-02-billy-the-kid-exlarge-169.jpghttp://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site557/2013/1005/20131005__LSN-L-BILLYTHEKID-1006~p1.jpg I'm still 'understandably skeptcal'; gun fighters never play croquet at wedding parties!:hmph: http://a57.foxnews.com/images.foxnews.com/content/fox-news/science/2015/10/12/new-image-shows-billy-kid-playing-croquet/_jcr_content/par/featured-media/media-0.img.jpg/876/493/1444671073769.jpg?ve=1&tl=1The two on horseback are the wedding couple: Charlie Bowdre and his wife Manuela http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-glpWP6-9oJU/T5VTidLAUyI/AAAAAAAAAg4/a9WErPdtrhM/s1600/Charlie.PNGhttp://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/10/12/new-image-shows-billy-kid-playing-croquet.html (http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/10/12/new-image-shows-billy-kid-playing-croquet.html)

[Eichhörnchen]

Where did you get those ears?

http://i.imgur.com/DzZA42m.jpg

I watched "Gun Fury" yesterday, with Rock Hudson and Leo Gordon, who I always thought had the biggest lugs this side of the Pecos... now I know different. He had one of the best faces in the movies, nonetheless for that.

[Aktungbby]

this side of the Pecos... now I know different.
GO WEST Young MAN! The Jersey Lily: Court and bar: Bean charged $5 for weddings, and ended all wedding ceremonies with "and may God have mercy on your souls" (traditionally the end of a death sentence (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment)).https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Old_langtry_tx.jpg/1024px-Old_langtry_tx.jpgLilly Langtry DID:up:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Lilly_Langtry%2C_1885.jpg/170px-Lilly_Langtry%2C_1885.jpg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lilly_Langtry,_1885.jpg) Bean named his new saloon The Jersey Lilly in honor of Lillie Langtry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillie_Langtry), who recounted in her autobiography, that she had visited the area after Bean's death. In 1897 during her travels in the United States, Langtry became an American citizen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_citizenship). She divorced her husband Edward Langtry the same year in Lakeport, California (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakeport,_California). He died a few months later following an accident. A letter of condolence later written by Langtry to another widow reads in part, "I too have lost a husband, but alas! it was no great loss." A death sentence revoked indeed! :rotfl2:
In 1888, Langtry purchased a winery (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guenoc_Valley_AVA) with an area of 4,200 acres (17 km2) in Lake County (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_County,_California), California, which produced red wine. She sold it in 1906. Bearing the Langtry Farms name, the winery and vineyard are still in operation in Middletown, California (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middletown,_California). I just called the link and: following the September Valley Fire which destroyed Middletown...someone answered the phone! I'm off to do a little tasting! :Kaleun_Cheers: http://langtryfarms.com/contact/ (http://langtryfarms.com/contact/)

[Eichhörnchen]

Yes I knew some of that stuff about Lily Langtree; the real Old West was always more surprising and fascinating than in the movies.

[Aktungbby]

I'm still 'understandably skeptcal'; gun fighters never play croquet at wedding parties!:hmph:Just watched the National Geographic show on the picture. This puppy is real. Oddly the forensic facial guy wasn't entirely happy with Billy the Kid's face; he moved or is the most out of focus in the shot only 80.1% veracity. The woman in the center of the picture is Sally Chisum (86% veracity:up:) whose uncle the Regulator gang members were herding at the occasion of the Lincoln County war. The building(still existing) was literally on The Kid's employer's ranch: John Tunstall, an Englishman, who literally introduced croquet to his employees, seen playing in the tintype. The forensic face guy was also a big croquet buff: All London croquet (invented there in 1851) mallets were 36"; a useful forensic tool in this case: as the figure holding the mallet may be readily determined to be 5' 8''-precisely the recorded height of Billy the Kid... also possibly the only gunfighter to wear sweaters in both of his tintypes!!!??? Sally Chisum's authenticated diary provides the provenance that the Regulators were all together on a given occasion in 1878 while employed on a cattle drive to Ft. Sumner. Additionally the tintype was absolutely verified to the late 1870's as to materials and method. Time, place, written witness account, with the witness in the shot...= $5,000,000. For me the history/hunt doesn't get better: the picture is good; the forensic foot-work is good; and there are no holes. The other key point (verisimilitude) is it's banality: literally a wedding-croquet-frolic of nobodies (at the time) in the middle of nowhere taking a shot, unrehearsed, that required everyone to remain still, including the horses, for 12 seconds. Who would fake that!

[Eichhörnchen]

I always thought (he) had the biggest lugs this side of the Pecos... now I know different...

http://i.imgur.com/uumlm68.jpg "So you think you've got the biggest, do ya? Maybe we could have a little wager on that..."