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Re: Billy the Kid tintype photo sells for $2.3M
Billy the Kid tintype sells for $2.3M
The Associated Press Posted: Jun 27, 2011 9:34 AM ET
This tintype portrait of Billy the Kid, circa 1880, sold for $2.3 million US at auction.
Lincoln County Heritage Trust Archive/Associated Press
What is believed to be the only surviving authenticated portrait of Billy the Kid sold at auction in Denver on Saturday for $2.3 million US.
The tintype went to private collector William Koch at Brian Lebel's 22nd Annual Old West Show & Auction. Auction spokeswoman Melissa McCracken said the image of the 19th-century Wild West outlaw was the most expensive piece ever sold at the event.
A 15 per cent fee was added to the bidding price, making the selling price more than $2.6 million. Organizers had expected it could fetch between $300,000 and $400,000.
The tintype is believed to have been taken in 1879 or 1880 in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. It shows the outlaw dressed in a rumpled hat and layers of clothes, including a bulky sweater. He's standing with one hand resting on a Winchester carbine on his right side and a Colt revolver holstered on his left side.
Tintypes were an early form of photography that used metal plates. They are reverse images, and the Billy the Kid tintype led to the mistaken belief that Billy the Kid was a lefty. The myth inspired the 1958 movie The Left Handed Gun, starring Paul Newman as Billy.
Billy the Kid gave the image to a friend, Dan Dedrick, and the tintype has been owned by his descendants, the Upham family, ever since. It was publicly displayed during the 1980s at a museum in Lincoln County, N.M.
Billy the Kid, also known as William Bonney or William Henry McCarty, became a legendary gunman in the 1870s. He was shot dead by Sheriff Pat Garrett in 1881 and buried in Fort Sumner, N.M.
McCracken said his picture is recognizable around the world as a classic image of the Old West.
"There's only one photo of Billy the Kid, and I think that's why it captivates people's imagination," she said before Saturday's auction.
The tintype was auctioned off along with more than 400 other Western-themed items, including documents from Buffalo Bill's aborted divorce, Native American antiquities, and a painting from Andy Warhol's Cowboys and Indians series depicting a Navajo woman with a baby on her back.
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crazy .... but being a bit of a billy the kid enthusiast its still interesting that he remains in high popularity
Re: Billy the Kid tintype photo sells for $2.3M
my fav scene from Young Guns.....skip the ad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SREed7TT5_s
"you know iron boy?":haha::D:laugh:
Re: Billy the Kid tintype photo sells for $2.3M
"our father, wha aret in heaven..."
"Please dick its getting cold"
*draws guns*
"I coulda killed ya dick, i coulda killed ya, but i dont wanna kill ya i wanna eat"
"appologies william, just hackin on ya thats all"
"ya we's just hackin on ya"
"rumor has it you killed a man billy"
"Ya billy what'd ya kill him for?"
"He was hackin on me"
Re: Billy the Kid tintype photo sells for $2.3M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuAOaFmS … re=related
table scene..Dirty Steve was my man
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