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(SPORTS—BOXING.) JACK JOHNSON.
Jack Johnson * Sam Langford *
Al Brown, and more.
Police Gazette “Supplement” posters, 15 x 11 inches, mounted to
larger 17 x 14 inch sheets with small, black corner tabs; a huge scrapbook, containing 47
other Police Gazette “supplement” posters of boxing greats, plus additional clippings etc.
Folio, bound in quarter cloth and paper-covered boards; binding worn, but all posters
therein in very good condition.
SHOULD BE SEEN
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New York: Police Gazette, circa 1917-1918
[3,000/4,000]
AN EXCEPTIONAL SCRAPBOOK OF ALL THE THEN CURRENT CHAMPIONS
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BLACK AND WHITE
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assembled by the legendary editor of Ring Magazine, Nat Fleischer (1887-1972). Includes early
images of Jack Johnson, Sam Langford, and Al Brown, plus 47 other posters, including a very young
Jack Dempsey, John L Sullivan, Jim Corbett et al. These posters were “supplements” to the Police
Gazette, which contrary to its title was a sporting magazine, featuring boxing. They were all carefully
mounted, at the corners, not glued. Many of the images are of boxers who were well-known at the
time, circa 1900 to 1920, but little known today. All of the posters are uniform in format, with the
image within a plain four line border
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(BOXING.) LOUIS, JOE.
Large gelatin silver print proof sheet of 15
images of the Joe Louis-Primo Carnera fight.
Slightly sepia toned, otherwise excel-
lent condition.
Np, 25 June 1935
[400/600]
Louis dispatched the Italian giant (6 feet, 6 inches) in the sixth round having knocked him down
three times. The fight was called as a “humanitarian act.” Louis was cheered as a hero, in that
Carnera was Benito Mussolini’s favorite.