In case you missed it, the 1901 Pinkerton wanted flyer for Butch Cassidy and fellow gang members that Freeman’s auctioned off on January 29 realized $12,800 including the buyer’s premium. The estimate was $8,000 to $12,000, so it didn’t do badly at all, although I expected it to go for more, based on earlier auction results. The original listing can be viewed at https://freemansauction.com/auctions/6465-printed-and-manuscript-americana/lot/152.

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Robert LeRoy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy. Carte de visite photograph taken in 1893 at the Wyoming State Penitentiary, Laramie, Wyoming, and mounted on a card from Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency with information about Parker, giving his aliases as George Cassady and “Butch” Cassady. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, lot 15027, no. 28 [P&P].