Grant Zahajko's Mob, Gangster, True Crime & Criminal Memorabilia auction will be held on September 10th, online and live in Davenport, Wash
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DAVENPORT, Wash. - Washingtoner -- OK all you crime collectors out there – stick 'em up. On Wednesday, September 10, starting at 9am Pacific Time, Grant Zahajko Auctions will hold a Mob, Gangster, True Crime & Criminal Memorabilia auction, with 223 lots featuring many of history's most notorious crimes and criminals, online and live in the gallery at 510 Morgan Street in Davenport.

"An estate find of Al Capone, "Lucky" Luciano and "Mad Dog" Coll items started the curating of what has turned into a dedicated sale containing fingerprint cards, booking cards, vintage and antique prison keys, Deer Lodge and Walla Walla prison horsehair bridles, letters, postcards, photos, signed books, serial killers, wanted posters and historical memorabilia from infamous individuals," said Grant Zahajko, who curated the sale along with Timothy Gordon Appraisals.

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Lot #16 is a mug shot / fingerprint card for Charles "Lucky" Luciano. A note verso reads, "This subject was with gang that was picked up at Beach. Feb. 1930 with 18 others in $60,000 gambling game with Phillip Mayo." A "Lucky" Luciano signed fingerprint set from his 1946 parole/deportation processing sold at auction for $43,200 (including buyer's premium). It did not have photos. No fingerprints with photos have ever sold at auction. Estimate: $15,000-$20,000.

Lot #10 is Al Capone's original negative and Type II vintage glossy black-and-white photograph of his mug shot, following his arrest in Miami, Florida in May 1930. The mug shot is important to history because it represents one of the rare surviving law enforcement records of Capone at the height of his power, when he was America's most famous gangster. Estimate: $800-$1,200.

Lot #1 is an original negative of a collage photo showing Jewish-American mobster Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel (1906)-1947); Harry "Happy" Maione (1908-1942); Louis "The Duke" Maione; and Joseph Rosen. Siegel was a driving force behind the development of the Las Vegas Strip. He was influential within the Jewish Mob, along with Meyer Lansky. Estimate: $200-$300.

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Lot #7 is a mug shot, fingerprint booking card and records card for Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll (1908-1932), following his arrest for robbery on December 13, 1930. Coll was an Irish-American mob hitman in the 1920s and early '30s in New York City. He gained some notoriety for the alleged accidental killing of a young child during a mob kidnap attempt. Estimate: $500-$800.

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