Press Release

Davenport, WA, USA, August 29, 2025 -- OK all you crime collectors out there – stick ‘em up. On Wednesday, September 10, starting at 9am Pacific Time, Grant Zahajko Auctions will hold a Mob, Gangster, True Crime & Criminal Memorabilia auction, with 223 lots featuring many of history’s most notorious crimes and criminals, online and live in the gallery at 510 Morgan Street in Davenport.

“An estate find of Al Capone, “Lucky” Luciano and “Mad Dog” Coll items started the curating of what has turned into a dedicated sale containing fingerprint cards, booking cards, vintage and antique prison keys, Deer Lodge and Walla Walla prison horsehair bridles, letters, postcards, photos, signed books, serial killers, wanted posters and historical memorabilia from infamous individuals,” said Grant Zahajko, who curated the sale along with Timothy Gordon Appraisals.

Some of the gangster-related items are from the estate of Gordon Pouliot (1927-2004), a motorcycle police and patrol officer in Southern Florida in the 1950's-1970's. Mr. Pouliot saved some of the items while working in law enforcement and collected others in his travels. All of Pouliot’s items are guaranteed originals and are not reprints, photocopies or facsimiles.

Lot #16 is a mug shot / fingerprint card for Charles “Lucky” Luciano. A note verso reads, “This subject was with gang that was picked up at Beach. Feb. 1930 with 18 others in $60,000 gambling game with Phillip Mayo.” A “Lucky” Luciano signed fingerprint set from his 1946 parole/deportation processing sold at auction for $43,200 (including buyer’s premium). It did not have photos. No fingerprints with photos have ever sold at auction. Estimate: $15,000-$20,000.

Lot #17 is also a “Lucky” Luciano mug shot / fingerprint card, with image, dated Feb. 2, 1931, after his arrest for felony assault in New York. The photo captures Luciano right before he made the Mafia, a rising lieutenant on the threshold of power (estimate: $15,000-$20,000). Lot #18 is “Luck”y Luciano’s two-page FBI “rap sheet” from 1936, issued at the time of his conviction for compulsory prostitution, one that sentenced him to 30-50 years in prison (estimate: $400-$600).

Lot #10 is Al Capone’s original negative and Type II vintage glossy black-and-white photograph of his mug shot, following his arrest in Miami, Florida in May 1930. The mug shot is important to history because it represents one of the rare surviving law enforcement records of Capone at the height of his power, when he was America’s most famous gangster. Estimate: $800-$1,200.

Internet bidding is available on the popular platforms LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com, Auctionzip.com, Connect.Invaluable.com (Grant Zahajko’s branded version of Invaluable) and https://bid.gzauctions.com (Zahajko’s platform). Telephone and absentee bids will be accepted. Register here for absentee bidding: https://www.gzauctions.com/other.html#tab_Absentee

To learn more about Grant Zahajko Auctions and the Mob, Gangster, True Crime & Criminal Memorabilia auction planned for Wednesday, September 10th, at 9am Pacific time, visit https://bid.gzauctions.com. Updates are posted often.

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