2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
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Eight pencil sketches, 8” x 10”, each signed by “L. Pierre Bottemer” with the newspaper clipping which shows the sketches published in The Birminham News. The sketches include: “Bruno Hauptmann, The Accused”; “Colonel Lindbergh”, personaly posed; “While On The Stand, Betty Gow” (the Nanny); “Edward Reilly, Chief Councel for Hauptman”; “New Jersey’s Able Attorney General David Wilentz”; “The Most Widely Known Sheriff, John H. Curtis” (hoexer); “One of the Accusers, O.H. Hochmuth;” and NJ State Supreme Justice - Thomas Trenchard” (sketch not in the newspapers). The newspaper clipping descibes each of the subjects L. Pierre Bottemer was a sketch artist at the trial of Lindbergh kidnapper Bruno Richard Hauptmann.
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