[Update: The tintype sold for $2.3 million. The Denver Post identifies the buyer as retired industrialist William Koch.
Quoting the Post: “I love the Old West,” said William Koch , 71, who now lives in Palm Beach, Fla. “I plan on enjoying it and discreetly sharing it. I think I’ll display it in a few small museums.”
According to the Post, a traveling photographer used a camera that took four pictures at once. One copy was destroyed in a fire, leaving two others that have not been found.]
[Update 2: This example of a four-lens tintype camera is in the collection of the National Museum of American History.]
This original photo of William “Billy the Kid” Bonney, the so-called Upham tintype, is being sold at Brian Lebel’s Old West Show & Auction, June 25 in Denver. The estimate sale price is $300,000 to $400,000.
According to the vendor, the tintype was a mirror image, so Bonney really looked like this:
Photo: William Bonney Credit: Brian Lebel’s Old West Show & Auction
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I’m intrigued by the “four pictures at once” detail. It’s like a prototype of those fun photobooth pictures that are stoll all over the place. Now every time I sit in one I’ll the thinking of William Bonney.
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If I am going to spend $2.3 million on a photo, he will have to be a lot better-looking than THAT.
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Flipping the photo was brilliant, thanks.
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