[WANTED POSTER] LUSTIG, Victor (1890?1947).WANTED FOR GRAND LARCENY.?(Spokane), 1926. Pictorial wanted poster bearing the traditional two-view portraits of this notorious con man, here named as ?Geo. Schobel,? and listing no less than fifteen aliases, including that which he was perhaps best known by, ?The Count? Viktor Lustig. Contemporary police department rubber stamps to recto. 8? ? 5?". Mounting residue to verso, else very good. See?Exemplars, page 134. But Lustig lusted after larger scores, and finally settled on the biggest of them all in 1925, when he sold the Eiffel Tower to a Parisian scrap dealer for a reported $70,000.00. When the fraud went unannounced in the press he tried it again but fled to the United States in fear before consummating a second deal. Once in America permanently, he reverted to the ?money box? scam again, fell in with Al Capone for a time, and finally found his true calling by becoming a counterfeiter on a grand scale, printing so many imitation greenbacks (known as ?Lustig money?) as to give the Secret Service genuine concern for the stability of the monetary system. Victor Lustig was eventually captured by Federal agents in New York City in 1935. He escaped from a holding cell there while awaiting trial but was apprehended again one month later. He died in Alcatraz Prison in 1947.