Mar 15, 2012 - Sale 2273

Sale 2273 - Lot 146

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(CRIME.) Wanted: Alvin Karpis. Illustrated broadside, 13 x 8 inches, signed in type by John Edgar Hoover; inked newspaper stamp and red pencil mark on recto, F.B.I. contact information on verso. Washington, 22 April 1936
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Alvin "Creepy" Karpis was one of the most notoriously violent gangsters of the 1930s. After ten years of crime, he was captured eight days after the release of this poster.