Nov 17, 2016 - Sale 2432

Sale 2432 - Lot 158

Price Realized: $ 1,105
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(CRIME.) Group of 29 wanted posters ranging from the 1930s through the present century. 29 items, various sizes and conditions, most addressed on verso. Vp, 1933-2002
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Highlights (or lowlights) include large-format posters of bank robber Willie Sutton, 27 April 1951 and Osama Bin Laden before 9/11, 29 March 1999; and 8 x 8 inch posters of Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger, 24 November 2000; Mafia leader Carmine Gallante, 13 October 1958; and serial killer Ted Bundy, 31 January 1978.
Other large format posters include 1962 Alcatraz escapees John and Clarence Anglin; American Indian activists Leonard Peltier and Frank Black Horse; CIA defector Edward Lee Howard; Symbionese Liberation Army leader Donald DeFreeze; Wells Fargo fugitive Victor Gerena; and terrorist Ramzi Ahmed Yousef.
Smaller-format 8 x 8 posters depict mobsters Vincent Squillante, Frank Vendituoli, Luigi "Baby Shanks" Manocchio, and Philip Cresta; Wisconsin bomber David Fine; Weather Underground members Bernardine Dohrn, Lawrence Michael Weiss, Michael Spiegel, and Norman Machtinger; 1930s criminals Victor Lustig, Harvey Bailey, and Richard Galatas; and modern criminals Victor Gerena, Rafael Resendez-Ramirez, Eric Rudolph, and James Kopp. with--a pair of FBI informational fliers on the Symbionese Liberation Army depicting Patty Hearst, and a packet of wanted cards for Resendez-Ramirez.