Sold for:
$244
$244
A threatening extortion letter, 1 page, on a bifolium, penned in crude print: "Dear Sir / If Wolter is killed it will cost your life. Black Hand," with the original symbol of a cupped right hand clipped from a printed drawing and pasted down." Later script in pencil to top right states: "Murder threat (From FBI files). The Black Hand, or La Mano Nera in Italian, was a type of extortion popularized in Chicago in the early twentieth-century prior to the organized crime gangs of Johnny Torrio and Al Capone.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2010-11-18
