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A detail from a 4×5-inch photo depicting Billy the Kid, left, playing croquet in New Mexico in 1878
Croquet tintype
A 4-by-6-inch (100 mm × 150 mm) ferrotype purchased in 2010 at a memorabilia shop in Fresno, California, has been claimed to show Bonney and members of the Regulators playing croquet. If authentic, it is the only known photo of Billy the Kid and the Regulators together and the only image to feature their wives and female companions.[130] Collector Robert G. McCubbin and outlaw historian John Boessenecker concluded in 2013 that the photograph does not show Bonney.[131] Whitny Braun, a professor and researcher, located an advertisement for croquet sets sold at Chapman's General Store in Las Vegas, New Mexico, dated to June 1878. Kent Gibson, a forensic video and still-image expert, offered his facial recognition software and stated that Bonney is indeed one of the individuals in the image.[130]
In August 2015, Lincoln State Monument officials and the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs stated that, despite the new research, they could not confirm that the image showed Bonney or others from the Lincoln County War era, according to Monument manager Gary Cozzens. A photograph curator at the Palace of the Governors archives, Daniel Kosharek, said the image is "problematic on a lot of fronts", including the small size of the figures and the lack of resemblance of the background landscape to Lincoln County or the state in general.[130] Editors from the True West Magazine staff said, "no one in our office thinks this photo is of the Kid [and the Regulators]."[131]
In early October 2015, Kagin's, Inc., a numismatic authentication firm, said the image was authentic after a number of experts, including those associated with a recent National Geographic Channel program,[132][133] examined it.[134][135]
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