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Wed Oct 14, 2015, 06:08 AM Oct 2015

Is This Billy The Kid? (New photo) [View all]

A newly uncovered photo bought for $2 by collector Randy Guijarro at a secondhand store in Fresno, California, could be worth millions as authenticators believe it is only the second confirmed image of the famed outlaw.
The image appears to show The Kid ... playing croquet at a wedding in Lincoln County, New Mexico, late in the summer of 1878, according to Kagin's, the numismatic company that authenticated it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/billy-the-kid-photo_561e0612e4b028dd7ea5c4b4

The man identified as Billy the Kid is ... leaning on a croquet mallet and wearing a top hat,
and someone appears to be pointing at him:


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Is This Billy The Kid? (New photo) [View all] left-of-center2012 Oct 2015 OP
The other guy looks like Keanu Reeves packman Oct 2015 #1
Billy has no guns strapped to his waist left-of-center2012 Oct 2015 #3
Incredible find. n/t Beartracks Oct 2015 #2
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