We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words. But in the case of the purported tintype of Belle Starr, which sold for $7,000 during Brian Lebel’s 14th Annual Cody Old West Show & Auction on June 26-28, 2003, a picture has generated a thousand words. The image appeared in Collecting the West in the Nov/Dec 2003 issue of True West, which covered the auction. The caption to the photo stated, “Brian Lebel was upfront about the image’s unknown provenance, but Robert G. McCu


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