GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY: Lot n° 1027

GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY: Ronnie Biggs (1929-2013) English criminal who helped plan and carry out the Great Train Robbery of 1963. A.L.S., Ronnie Biggs, to one side of a plain correspondence card, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, [30th May] 1997, to Alain Raboud. Biggs writes, in full, ´These International Reply Coupons are not worth shit in Brazil; please feel free to send me a present of some kind! In case you are wondering who is singing (?) beside me, it´s the lead singer, Campino, of the punk group "Die Toten Hosen". My kind of luck!´. Together with the signed colour 6 x 4 photograph referred to, the image depicting Biggs in a head and shoulders pose wearing a t-shirt with the slogan Old fart, singing into a microphone alongside the vocalist Campino. Signed by Biggs in black ink to a clear area of the image, ´The Old Fart´s still rockin´ Ronnie Biggs´ and dated Rio, 1997 in his hand. Also including the printed oblong 12mo International Reply Coupon referred to, signed by Biggs and again dated Rio, 1997 in his hand. Accompanied by the original envelope with the return address in Biggs´s hand to the verso, amusingly using the name of the fictional fugitive, Richard Kimble, as the remitter; Buster Edwards (1931-1994) English criminal, a member of the gang that carried out the Great Train Robbery of 1963. Signed colour 4 x 6 photograph of Edwards standing outdoors in a full-length pose alongside his flower stall. Signed in black ink to a light area of the image (his signature running across an earlier attempt in light blue ink which did not adhere well to the glossy surface) and again signed and inscribed in blue ink to the verso. VG to EX, 4