Apr 17, 2014 - Sale 2345

Sale 2345 - Lot 126

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(BOSTON)
Pocket-size mug shot album with 30 photographs of hard-boiled criminals picked up in Boston, including Whitey Bulger and members of his vicious circle. Silver prints, 3x4 1/4 inches (7.6x10.8 cm.), stapled to ruled sheets, with handwritten notations, in ink, below the photographs. 8vo, with one leaf and rear cover detached. 1970-1971

Additional Details

From the Collection of John Binder.

A rogue's gallery of local bad guys who could easily have been the inspiration for Ben Affleck's film, The Town (2010). The consignor has done his homework and provided documentation about which men were associated with organized crime organizations in Boston's colorful past (as opposed to being "common criminals"). Included are Thomas W. Nee, James Manville (or Mantville), Patrick Nee, James Murphy and Paul McGonigal.