Included in this lot is an Antique Silver City, New Mexico Blacksmith Billhead, framed, 1911. Provenance: Tombstone Western Heritage Museum, Tombstone, Arizona. George Everard was a blacksmith in Silver City and the billhead is for horseshoes for the "Landstroth Bros.", the prominent Langstroth family who operated a successful general mercantile business there during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They were among the influential early settlers of the Silver City boomtown. The Langstroth Store quickly became one of the largest and most successful businesses in Silver City, a key hub for miners, merchants, and other settlers flooding the area. The Town of Silver City was formed in the 1870s, after the discovery of silver in and around the Town. Silver City quickly became a boom town, and our Wild West past includes the first arrest and (brief) incarceration of William Bonney, better know as Billy the Kid. Although Bonney moved on, the Kid’s family lived in the area for many years, and his mother is buried in the Town’s Memory Lane Cemetery. The billhead is mounted in a double-matted wood frame, age tanning noted. Visible art is 6.5"W x 8"L, frame is 14.75"W x 14.75"L x .75"D. Combined weight is 1lb, 10oz.