極端に rare photo of Billy the Kid up for sale

It first cost $2 at a junk shop in California. Now it's 査定する/(税金などを)課すd at $5 million and is going on sale again: a photo of Wild West 銃器携帯者/殺しや Billy the Kid.

It is said to be one of only two authenticated images of that iconic 人物/姿/数字 of frontier America.

The tintype 発射 shows the 無法者 -- real 指名する William Henry McCarty -- pausing during a game a croquet in what is now New Mexico in 1878 with members of his ギャング(団), called the Lincoln 郡 Regulators, and other people, said Kagin's, a 会社/堅い that 専攻するs in Western Americana and rare coins.

This image obtained October 15, 2015 courtesy of Kagin's, Inc shows a tintype of Billy the Kid

This image 得るd October 15, 2015 儀礼 of Kagin's, Inc shows a tintype of Billy the Kid

In the 4 x 5 インチ (10 x 13 cm) photo, Billy the Kid seems to be smirking or grinning as he 残り/休憩(する)s his croquet mallet on the ground. He is wearing a dark hat that appears to be a 乱打するd, shorter and wider 見解/翻訳/版 of the Abe Lincoln-style stovepipe.

He stands in 前線 of a small 木造の building, to his left is a woman in a ground-length skirt 持つ/拘留するing a baby. その上の still to the left is a group of children.

Kagin's said in a 声明 it will be the 排除的 販売人 of the photo, which was first 購入(する)d at a junk stor e in Fresno, California in 2010 by an Old West 熱中している人 指名するd Randy Guijarro.

It took a year of 熟考する/考慮する to authenticate it, 含むing travel to New Mexico to 見解(をとる) the 位置/汚点/見つけ出す where the photo was taken, Kagin's said.

"When we first saw the photograph, we were understandably skeptical -? an 初めの Billy the Kid photo is the 宗教上の Grail of Western Americana," Kagin's 上級の numismatist, David McCarthy.

The only other authenticated photo of Billy the Kid is a portrait of him taken in 1880. It sold in 2010 for $2.3 million, Kagin's said.

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