October Legends and Americana Ending November 14th
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/15/2015
A real-photo postcard, 5.5" x 3.5", bearing a 3.5" x 2.75" photograph of the bodies Grat and Bob Dalton, Dick Broadwell, and Bill Power after they were killed following the Coffeyville bank robbery in October 1892. Silvering to dark portions of photograph, light soiling, else fine.
On the verso is a brief Autograph Letter Signed, "J A Eells," Freeport, Illinois, May 26, [1910], which reads in full: "We took a trip, went to Oklahoma. Stopped at Coffeyville Kansas. The Picture shows the Dalton Bank Robbers shot by one man after robbing two banks. One man with a Winchester done the work."
Winchester firearms began experimenting with lever-action repeating rifles in the 1860s, perfecting the concept beginning with the Model 1873, which has been regarded as "The Gun that Won the West."