?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(RETOUCHED PRESS PRINTS--CRIME) A group of approximately 60 press photographs with period painting and retouching. All related to criminal acts and trial proceedings involving murder, gambling raids, and corruption charges. Silver prints, most ferrotyped, the images measuring from 7 3/4x5 1/2 to 10 1/2x8 1/2 inches (19.7x14 to 26.7x21.6 cm.), the sheets slightly larger, all with period retouching and hand painting, on recto, and most with typed press captions, handwritten notations, and various press agency hand stamps, on verso. 1920s-50s
