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Lot 705

[CRIME] Trio of Robbery / Stick-Up Photographs. 1920s. Incl...

Estimate: $125 - $225

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[CRIME] Trio of Robbery / Stick-Up Photographs. 1920s. Including one photograph of a simulated ?holdup? at a jewelry shop in New York, where police demonstrated a new type of tear gas shopkeepers could release; an image of a man leaning through a hole in a wall in a bank vault in Cincinnati where burglars stole over $10,000; and a Russian ?scientist? demonstrating a ?diving rod? supposedly detecting ?guilt? in a criminal as well as proximity to gold and oil. Press stamps and slugs attached. Images 8 x 6?.