IT ALSO CONFIRMS THAT ORIGINALLY THE REVOLVER WAS BLUED.īUTTERFIELD & BUTTERFIELD, SAN FRANCISCO, 19TH JUNE 2000, LOT 4662.ĪL CAPONE IS PERHAPS THE MOST FAMOUS MOBSTER OF ALL TIME, JOINING THE EXCLUSIVE RANKS OF LAW-BREAKERS WHO WERE SIMULTANEOUSLY REGARDED A FOLK HEROES AND PUBLIC ENEMIES. SOLD WITH A COLT FACTORY ARCHIVE LETTER CONFIRMING THAT THIS REVOLVER WAS ONE OF 3 POLICE POSITIVES SHIPPED TO FRANKFURTH HARDWARE CO., MILWAUKEE, WI ON 3RD MAY 1929.
THE AFFIDAVIT CONCLUDES WITH THE STATEMENT "THIS AFFADAVIT IS GOVEN FROM THE PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE AFFIANT FOR THE PURPOSE OF AUTHENTICATING THE PRIOR OWNERSHIP OF SUCH REVOLVER BY THE NOTORIOUS AL CAPONE." THE AFFIDAVIT ALSO STATES THAT, ACCORDING TO RALPH'S WISHES, UPON HIS DEATH THE REVOLVER WAS TO BE PASSED TO ONE EDMUND KOESKI WHICH IT WAS IN 1976. 384221, BEING NICKEL PLATES WITH A WOOD HANDLE, WHICH REVOLVER WAS ACQUIRED FROM AND WAS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BROTHER AL CAPONE". A GUN WHICH PREVIOUSLY BELONGED TO AND WAS USED ONLY BY AL CAPONE WHILE HE WAS ALIVE".ĪCCOMPANIED BY A COPY OF AN AFFIDAVIT SWORN ON 25TH MARCH 1990 BY MADELEINE CAPONE MORICHETTI, WIDOW OF RALPH CAPONE, STATING THAT "RALPH CAPONE BECAME THE CUSTODIAN AND OWNER OF A CERTAIN COLT POLICE POSITIVE. IN THE FIRST PARAGRAPH MADELEINE CONFIRMS THE SERIAL NUMBER AND STATES ". IN THE LETTER MADELEINE CONFIRMS IT WAS RALPH'S WISH THAT THE REVOLVER WAS PASSED TO EDDIE. A LETTER FROM MADELEINE CAPONE MORICHETTI TO EDMUND 'EDDIE' KOESKI WRITTEN IN 1976 AFTER RALPH'S DEATH IS ALSO INCLUDED IN THE LOT.
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