The Metropolis

For sale today in Mayfair: the gun of notorious tax evader Al Capone

Mike Pollitt | Wednesday 22 June, 2011 12:23

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capone on top of a flagpole dancing the charleston
Christies are selling it at 1.00pm, so rustle up that £50,000 pretty sharpish. Here’s the lot.

And here’s a bonus list of some great gangster monikers from the period, plucked from his wikipedia page.

Alphonse “Scarface Al” Capone
Richard Two-Gun Hart
Ralph “Bottles” Capone
Salvatore “Frank” Capone
James “Big Jim” Colosimo
Dean O’Banion
William “Big Bill” Hale Thompson
Hymie Weiss
Bugs Moran
Frankie Rio
Johnny Torrio
Owney “The Killer” Madden

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