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The Holy Grail for Sale

by | May 24, 2011 | Features & Gunfights

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The Billy the Kid tintype is on the auction block, and it might just clear half a million. Back in December 1880, New Mexico Territorial Gov. Lew Wallace put a $500 bounty on the head of Billy the Kid. That was a pretty penny back then, translating to more than $11,000 in today’s money. But take that 500 and add three zeroes, and you might have the price tag of the only authenticated photo of the Kid. That’s big bucks, in any time period, all for a cheap, two-by-three-inch piece of i


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