ccassiuss
10-15-2013, 01:18 PM
Hi,
Hope you guys can help, I am looking for vintage Cassius Clay autograph card,
I believe it was the first ever promo photo of Cassius Clay and was taken by boxing historian Hank Kaplan.
If you can help then please send a reply and images,
Exhibitman
10-15-2013, 04:41 PM
Here is a prior thread in which one of our members sheds some very interesting light on the item and which shows a few of them.
http://www.net54baseball.com/showthread.php?t=163890
Also thought you might enjoy seeing these Clay/Ali pieces:
http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibitman/boxingpremiums/websize/Letterhead%201964%20Clay%20v%20Liston%20II.jpg
1969 NY Weekly Boxing News premium:
http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibitman/boxingpremiums/websize/1969%20NYWBN%20Ali.jpg
Dean Martin Celebrity Roast [would have been part of a kit for local tv stations to promote the show]:
http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibitman/boxingpremiums/websize/1976%20Ali%20Dean%20Martin%20Celebrity%20Roast.jpg
1967 press photos:
http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibitman/boxingphotographsandephemera/large/Ali%202.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibitman/boxingphotographsandephemera/large/Ali%201.jpg
Israeli issue from the late 1960s or early 1970s:
http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibitman/rareboxingcards/websize/1960s%20Israeli%20Clay.jpg
1967 Crack Golazo:
http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibitman/rareboxingcards/websize/1967%20Figuritas%20Sport%20Ali.jpg
ca. 1970 Shindana Afro American History Mystery:
http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibitman/rareboxingcards/websize/Shindana%20Ali.JPG
1975 TEKS Ali-Frazier:
http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibitman/rareboxingcards/websize/1975%20Phillipines%20TEK%20Ali-Frazier%201.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibitman/rareboxingcards/websize/1975%20Phillipines%20TEK%20Ali-Frazier%202.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibitman/rareboxingcards/websize/1975%20Phillipines%20TEK%20Ali-Frazier%203.jpg
http://photos.imageevent.com/exhibitman/rareboxingcards/websize/1975%20Phillipines%20TEK%20Ali-Frazier%204.jpg