Two guns believed to have been used by notorious US outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow have exceeded expectations at acution.
A fully automatic Thompson submachine gun, known as a ‘Tommy gun’ went for $130,000, four times the estimate. A Winchester shotgun fetched $80,000. Both went to an American east coast collector.
The weapons are believed to have been retrieved from the hiding place of the criminal gang lead by Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in Joplin, Missouri, during a police raid in April 1933. Back then the criminals shot two cops and escaped, leaving the weapons behind.
Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker terrorised the mid-west United States during the early 1930s robbing banks, and killing people. Bonnie and Clyde and their gang are believed to have killed at least nine police officers and a number of civilians.
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ReplyDeleteJust goes to show,one mans terror is another mans treasure :-)
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Interesting that their guns went for more than they got from all their escapades.
ReplyDeleteYes. I knew it was coming up, but was surprised how much they went for, though they are both one of a kind. Reminds me of Truman Capote's Christmas Memory ("It's fruitcake weather!") when the mill owner's wife tries to buy their Christmas Tree, but she won't sell it to which the wife says you can go cut another like it which was replied to with "There are never two of anything in this world."
ReplyDeletetheir guns went for more than they got from all their escapades.
ReplyDeleteDidn't think of that.