Dec 11, 2012 - Sale 2298

Sale 2298 - Lot 128

Price Realized: $ 36,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
(CRIME)
A San Francisco police department album containing approximately 720 mugshots on 60 pages, with 6 photographs per page, with offenders (some bandaged) arrested for crimes including murder, mayhem, vagrancy, and theft, also including a few women and one marked "Dead." Silver prints, each approximately 2 3/4x4 inches (7x10.2 cm.), sheet size 10 1/4x11 1/2 inches (26x29.2 cm.), mounted recto/verso, each with a stamped number and the offender's name and a caption (including the crime), in ink; a few with an additional mugshot mounted over the original. Small oblong folio, 1/4 leather over cloth with a black-stamped title on the backstrip, lightly worn. 1923