Lot 129

Stinking Springs, NM Billy the Kid Found Artifacts

Estimate: $1,500 - $2,500

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Featured in this lot is this display of Billy the Kid artifacts excavated near Stinking Springs, New Mexico circa 1880's and were interred in the Tombstone Western Heritage Museum; Provenance: From the Tombstone Western Heritage Museum in Tombstone, Arizona. The artifacts include many different caliber of cartridge a piece of adobe or clay walling and various metal and glass picked up by a metal detector; the display presents a museum copy of an old photograph of Stinking Springs, New Mexico. The plaques on the display are marked as follows: Dec. 23, 1880 Stinking Springs - Billy the Kid's .41 Cal. Cartridge - Stinking Springs, New Mexico - Cartridges .45 colt - .44 Colt - .38 S&W - Dec 23, 1880 - Billy the Kid and PALS surrender to Garrett Posse. The display also comes with paperwork from the Tombstone Western Heritage Museum and reads as follows: "This framed group of iron and metal relics were found by metal detector at Stinking Springs, NM. Stinking Springs was a ranch and an overnight way station for cattle drivers and sheep herders. It is located near the present site of Taiban, New Mexico. On 23 December 1880 sheriff Pat Garrett and his posse found Billy the Kid and the Regulators in a stone hut, where it began a shoot-out which killed Charlie Bowdre and captured Billy, Dave Rudabaugh, Tom Pickett and Billy Wilson. Only the Foundation remains nowadays..." The condition of this artifact display is well preserved with no obvious signs of damage to the display frame and the artifacts inside are well preserved with excavated condition featuring oxidation and general patina due to exposure and age. The measurements of the display frame is 16" x 15 1/4. The collective weight of this artifact display is 1lb 6oz.

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