This photo (above) is said to be the only one left of Billy the Kid and it was sold at an auction in Denver, Colorado for 2,6 million US$. The buyer is a collector by the name of William Koch, businessman, sailor, and collector, the son of Fred Koch, the founder of Koch Industries. William or Bill Koch can afford this as he is regarded as one of the richest persons in the USA.
The photo of 'the Kid' is taken in 1879 (the year my grandfather was born) or 1880, in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. Billy the Kid had given this 'tintype' or 'ferrotype' (a sort of photographic tecnhique) to his friend Dan Dedrick and since then it has passed on in his family, only displayed once at a museum during the 1980s'.
Photo below is said to be Dan Dedrick and Billy the Kid
Photo below is said to depict Dan Dedrick,
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
(Photo copied from this site: https://petapixel.com/2011/06/27/lone-photo-of-billy-the-kid-fetches-2-3-million-at-auction/)
(Photo of Dan Dedrick and Billy the Kid, taken from : https://www.newser.com/story/173436/this-photo-may-be-2nd-ever-of-billy-the-kid.html)
(Photo Dan Dedrick, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid copied from: https://www.pinterest.fr/pin/341007003012437074)
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