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245 Jeffries Championship Souvenir Playing Cards,
copyrighted in 1909 by W.P. Jeffries Co., Los Angeles, each playing card with a photographic printed of a champion boxer or a famous fight scene, portrait of James J. Jeffries to the reverse, complete with original printed synopsis of the subjects illustrated, and slip case £100 - 150
246 An archive of boxing memorabilia relating to Dick Walsh of Warrington described on the front cover of Boxing Magazine (21st August 1918) as Manager of the Largest Boxing Stable in England, including a long handbill for an Easter Grand Boxing Tournament at the Grand Theatre, Douglas, Isle of Man, the bill including “Fighting” Dick Walsh of Liverpool v “Demon” Hawkins of Douglas at 9st., the aforementioned Boxing Magazine featuring Walsh on the cover, a pass issued to Walsh from A H Taylor Director of Liverpool Stadium allowing him to ringside at anytime, a letter from Jack Hunter the boxing P.T.I., hand written accounts for boxing tournaments in 1919-1920; a Welterweight Championship of the World fight ticket Henry Armstrong v Ernie Roderick at Harringay 25.5.39, and over 50 real photo postcards of boxers of the period that includes signed examples for Jimmy Wilde Flyweight Champion of the World, the French woman Mlle. Marthe Carpentier Female Champion of the World, Jerry Walker of Long Eaton active 1915 to 1933 & Fred Stanley of Birmingham active 1911-1928, the lot also has a few photographs (a qty.) £250 - 350
247 Five boxing prints issued as fold out supplements to Famous Fights Magazine,
Portraits of 30 Ancient Prize Fighters, Tom Sayers In All His Battles, Herbert A Slade, John L Sullivan & Charles Mitchell; sold together with a supplement published by the Illustrated London News, titled Boxing Performance at Her Majesty’s Theatre; and a George Belcher signed print ‘Two Veterans of the National Sporting Club’ dated 1918 (7) £200 - 300
248 Miles (Henry Downes) Pugilistica,
The History of British Boxing, in 3 volumes with 100 portraits and illustrations, John Grant, Edinburgh, 1906; sold together with Bettinson and Outram Tristram’s The National Sporting Club Past and Present, Sands & Co., London, 1901; and A F Bettinson & B Bennison’s The Home of Boxing, London, 1933 (5 vols) £100 - 150
250 Wilde (Jimmy) Fighting Was My Business,
autobiography with original d/j, published by Michael Joseph, 1st edition, 1938 £180 - 220
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249 Six volumes on boxing, Bohun Lynch’s limited edition The Prize Ring, numbered 617 of 750, published 1925; Famous Sporting Prints: Boxing, by The Studio; Charles Donaldson’s From Figg to Tunney, Who’s Who in Sport etc., paper wrappers; Jimmy Wilde’s The Art Of Boxing, paperback; Sporting Life Boxing Records to October 1910; and Vo.1 No.1 of The Ringsider, September 1946 £150 - 200
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