Dillinger 'death mask' sells for $3,660
A Chicago businessman is now the proud owner of John Dillinger's "death mask."
Businessman Ed Hirschland on Thursday bought the cast of the famed Depression-era bank robber's face at an auction in Chicago. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the mask was made after the FBI gunned Dillinger down in an ambush outside the Biograph Theater in 1934.
Hirschland paid $3,000 for the mask, plus $600 in fees. He says he wanted the mask because he's "a Chicago aficionado."
The mask was among dozens of items related to Chicago history that went up for auctioned Thursday. A first-edition copy of Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago went for $1,800. But some items — including Al Capone's monogrammed scarf — didn't sell.
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