Apr 27, 2017 - Sale 2444

Sale 2444 - Lot 91

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Group of 3 F.B.I. wanted posters. Two-sided fliers, each 8 x 8 inches, illustrated with photographs, fingerprints, and facsimile signatures of the suspects and of J. Edgar Hoover; Cleaver toned and slightly soiled, with two punch holes in upper part and tape repairs on verso, Cleaver and Davis with typed addresses on verso, Chesimard unaddressed but with a mailing closure. Washington, DC, 1969-72

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Eldridge Cleaver, wanted for "interstate flight, assault with intent to commit murder," issued shortly after his presidential run with the Peace and Freedom Party, 18 December 1968 Angela Davis, for "interstate flight, murder, kidnapping," 19 August 1970 JoAnne Chesimard (now Assata Olugbala Shakur), wanted for bank robbery, 10 February 1972.