Oct 22, 2009 - Sale 2191

Sale 2191 - Lot 131

Price Realized: $ 2,460
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(MURDER INC.)
Group of 7 photographs of the top Murder Inc. killers, including a lineup photograph with Harry Strauss, Harry Maione and Frank "Dasher" Abbandando in Borsalino hats and 6 mug shots of Abbandando, Emanuel Weiss, Maione, Louis Capone, Albert Tannenbaum and Abraham "Pretty" Levine. Silver prints, 2 3/4x5 to 6 1/2x6 3/4 inches (6.9x12.7 to 16.5x17.1 cm.), each with notations on verso. 1936-1940

Additional Details

From the files of Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney Burton Turkus, who prosecuted Murder Inc. cases; to organized crime historian and collector John Binder.