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Old 10th July 2019, 01:54 PM   #2
fernando
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Default The Dedrick ferrotype

Jim, i notice that you show a picture of Billy in a let handed posture.
Am i surprised that you miss the fact that he was right handed ?
... and the reason for this recurrent misjudgement is due to such picture having been made with the period ferrotype technique, which produced reversed images. As written by historians James D. Horan and Paul Sann, and confirmed by former curator Clyde Jeavons, William Bonney was right handed. Not to speak that knowledge people have attended to the Winchester positioning (loading gate/receiver) and have come to the same conclusion

... Unless you know of some opposing evidence ...

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