Announcing: The Truth About Kaloma!
While buyers treat the photo as a valuable rarity, experts interviewed in the book charge that the Josie Earp attribution is bogus. The pin-up style portrait has reportedly sold for as much as $4,500 and often appears in auction sites offered for hundreds. Those who have bought the photo are not going to be heartened by my findings, Elvin said. Its very possible that their hundreds or thousands of dollars bought a photo worth twenty-five dollars — if its in a twenty dollar frame.
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