Sep 17, 2015 - Sale 2391

Sale 2391 - Lot 394

Price Realized: $ 250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(MEXICO.) Guard House at Agua Prieta after Capture by Red Lopez Apr 13. Real Photo postcard, 5 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches, captioned in negative; unused, pencil mark on recto, foxing marks on verso only, stamp box corner reading "AZO" with four triangles. Np, circa April 1911
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Arturo "Red" Lopez was a Mexican-American revolutionary who led an assault on the far northern Mexican city of Agua Prieta, and defeated the Mexican federal troops in a pitched battle. Some bullets strayed across the border into Douglas, AZ. Agua Prieta would also be taken by Pancho Villa four years later. with--another Real Photo postcard captioned in the negative "Gambling Devices Burned by Federals, Naco Sonora, Mexico." Inscribed on verso and postmarked Tucson, AZ, 1929.