He Paid Only $2 for The Old Picture at a Flea Market (Page 4 ) | September 17, 2024

New Yorker Billy the Youngster, who had a short, lethal vocation as a bandit and supposedly killed 21 men prior to being shot by Lincoln Province Sheriff Pat Garrett in 1881 at 21 years old, is inseparable from the Wild West.

Other historians claim that he only killed nine people. An 1880 photograph of him sitting on a rifle, which was sold in 2011 for $2.3 million (£1.5 million), is the only other picture of him that has been confirmed.

The majority of Guijarro’s life has been spent collecting coins, sports cards, cartoons, and other memorabilia. He often works with his wife, who enjoys antique photography, to collect these items.

In the late summer of 2010, he was alone on his way home from work when he discovered Fulton’s Folly Antique Collective in the Fresno Tower neighborhood.He was directed by the merchant to two men carrying “trash boxes.” They told Guijarro that they wanted to get rid of it because they were cleaning out the warehouse.

He offered $2, which was all he had, and selected three pictures of croquet players and other 19th-century scenes. They adopted it.They are a distant memory to Guijarro. “They were unknown to me. It almost seems to blur.”He liked the way the croquet shot was put together, but it took him a week to look at it through a microscope and find the famous bandit.

He refers to Linda as a “sweet, sensible woman” when she was called and questioned by other regulatory agencies.

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