Head of Joaquin and Jack’s three fingers
A live online October 28 sale held by Forum (25/20/12.5% buyer’s premium) attracted a much higher than expected bid for this small and rather browned poster promising that, for one day only, visitors to The ‘Stockton House’ could view not only the preserved head of the renowned bandit Joaquin, but ‘the hand of Three Fingered Jack!’
Joaquin Murrieta Carrillo (1829-53), also known as ‘The Bandit’ or ‘Robin Hood of the West’, was n…