I'd like untrimmed cards to replace them, but can't say no to filling holes cheaply. 3 T229 Pet's and then a mostly complete E80 Tommy Murphy. Johnson is going to be a pain in my rear to finish both sets...

161, 162 and 163 for the master set. The Sharkey is the cool one, as you can see part of the card back on the front from wet sheet stacking. Sharkey is also now my first completed fighter run, all 10 of his backs down.

An obscure 1930s Chilean card:

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Getting increasingly difficult to locate cards I need in my main wheelhouse, but life is too short not to buy cool boxing cards. It's not a T card or an N card, but its an American Tobacco card of a boxer, so I think this counts. Couldn't resist at $10 after shipping and tax. Now I have to pick up the 2-line version. There was also a really gorgeous color store display of Louis promoting Chesterfield. I'm not sure if the 3-line or the 2-line postcard was produced first, but the 3-line seems slightly more common.

There's also a postcard back.

There always turns out to be something else I have to go buy :(

I think I can hook you up.

I dont collect much boxing but Joe Louis and his fight against Schmelling is something that has always had meaning to me. My Dad's favorite fighter. When I was a kid my parents would go to library and you could take out silent films like Charlie Chaplin etc. And he would bring home Louis fights to watch. So when I saw these on Ebay for a very reasonable price I picked them up. 2 Louis vs Schmelling and one Louis vs Sharkey. I thought the ringside messenger ticket was very cool. All have back damage from scrapbook but I ain't looking at the backs..

After sitting out on the periphery for a few months, I am back full swing into building my boxing collection. I still gravitate towards looking at prewar first, but I have been looking at the early 70s and late 80s Panini Stickers of fighters I loved growing up (just grabbed an '86 Supersport Donald Curry).

This is the latest pickup - a quick and cheap local pickup from 1956 Gum Adventure. Nine cards in total. I have looked around for the Schmeling and while they are abundant on eBay - nobody is giving them away and they are all priced too high. Just given the shock factor of the card itself alone is one reason I'd love to own it, however Schmeling's own story and the friendship he had with Louis until his death makes it a coveted card.

Not a rare card, but a definite short print for that particular set. There was a big vending find of these back in the 80's or 90's or so, to the point these were almost considered junk wax for a bit, even though it was a 50's issue.

You could pick up near sets of these in top shape for a song. The find was missing the Schmeling card however.

Don't recall the exact reason for the short print, but I believe Max didn't exactly appreciate being associated with the Swastika. He was a considered a German hero and revered by Hitler after beating Louis in the first fight, but by the middle of the War, Hitler considered Schmeling a liabilty and "disloyal" to the cause...and eventually had Schmeling put on the front lines in a paratrooper division, and then blasted the news out to the world media, putting a huge target on Schmeling's back. Somehow he survived the war and redeemed himself quite well to the outside world.

Yes I have read the same, but you noted a couple things I didn't read about. Seems like he was a great man. When you see the card with the swastika on it, you just can't help but stare at it, but that could also be because I am in the middle of reading WWII books haha

I just picked this up.