In 1879, William Henry McCarty Jr., AKA Henry Antrim, AKA William H. Bonney, AKA the notorious outlaw Billy the Kid, stood with his guns at his side in a portrait studio in New Mexico and got his only known photograph made.  Little did Billy know that tintype (an early photography method that leaves an image imprint on thin metal plates) would later be one of the most expensive photos of all time.  The only known picture if Billy the Kid sold at auction for a staggering $2.6 million dollars.

Granted, the auction only fetched $2.3 million before the Denver, Colorado, auction house tacked on its fees, but still; that’s impressive!  The tintype is the inspiration for the movie The Left-Handed Gun starring the late Paul Newman as Billy; tintypes create reverse images, thus Billy looks like a southpaw when he was actually more than likely right-handed.  For the only known photo of history’s greatest outlaw, $2.6 million seems like a bargain.

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