Originally Posted by G1911 (Post 2309269)

My collecting year has been made. I doubt I'll get something as big to me as this pretty much ever. I started my T220 Silver set when I was 12 in Christmas 2003, when my Dad bought me my first 7 boxing cards because they looked cool with the silver borders and he thought I might like them even though they weren't baseball. Probably a mistake, I've been addicted to the T220 Silver's and from there the whole c. 1910 E/T/C card period of boxing ever since. 6,975 days later my favorite set is finally complete, and in spectacular fashion for I completed my first set, my second set, my third set, my fourth set, my fifth set, my sixth set, my seventh set, and my eighth set all at once. It was peak hobby enjoyment to take this box over and open it up with my Dad like we did with my first T220 silvers.

I don’t know how many Corbett’s are out there, I have not tracked them as religiously as I have the 4 Donovans (a lot easier to track, as they have all been discovered during my time in the hobby and in the scan era) but these 8 probably represent around 50-66% of the total population now. PSA has 4 graded, SGC’s registry produces 0 Corbett’s and 0 Donovan’s and just 1-3 of the commons so it is clearly useless still but I don't believe they've ever had one. I've heard of a couple raw ones out there, but rumors aren't photos.

I don't want to out anyone who might want to remain anonymously private but I got a call from the original buyer, who didn't have to do this at all as I have no entitlement to these whatsoever, and structured a deal specifically just to get the Corbett sheet into my silver-loving collection. Even after we discussed bids and valuations, that it might one day be a Graziano type item in an open and properly listed sale, and his original intent to quietly keep it, he offered it to me because reconstructing this sheet is my passion project at a generous price in one heck of a gesture. Not only did he do this great kindness, he then shipped me the sheet immediately before we had even finished the logistics of payment. I've arranged for certain unique items to end up in certain peoples collections because they really care about them, but this is a value range I don't typically even play in at all. Wow!

I will also insert a plug for the remaining 2 panels that have survived to the present. To whoever owns the Randall/Belasco, I will pay you stupid money for it. Same for the Choyinski if its owner ever gets bored of looking at it. And with the Corbett printing proofs, I still need a final production normal Corbett to go along with them. I’m going to keep building some side sets of 23 (One side set I’m doing is fully beaters, trying to find the worst condition examples of each of the 23 base cards I can) of it as it is my favorite release, but I’m almost wrapped up here with as complete a collection as can be made. I’m not aware of any extant oddities I don’t own, but who knows what is out there (hint hint ;)). Maybe a Jack Goodman really will crop up one day and give me a new white whale.

Originally Posted by Bill77 (Post 2309782)

Probably belongs on a non-sport site but I'll put my Reginald Denny here.

Originally Posted by Exhibitman (Post 2309907)

Chad, there is a 1991-1992 copyright on the Douglas, so I do not think it is a 1990 card.

Originally Posted by wicker56 (Post 2309909)

Adam, I just assumed it was the same year as the cabinet card. I guess I should have looked a little closer. Lol..

Originally Posted by wicker56 (Post 2309895)

This card is sure to be on ever boxing collectors “must have” list. This one is just a standard size card that fits in a 3 X 4 top loader, not the larger cabinet sized card.

Originally Posted by Exhibitman (Post 2310973)

Readily available on ebay uk. The big point of sale card is genuinely tough.

Originally Posted by Exhibitman (Post 2311139)

I didn't even know there was a Buster Douglas checklist...

Originally Posted by Exhibitman (Post 2311187)

Boxing's version of Tommy Aaron...

Originally Posted by G1911 (Post 2311190)

They even had a third brother, Jim, that was a professional boxer. I don't think he was around for long. Boxrec doesn't seem to know of him.

Originally Posted by D. Bergin (Post 2311313)

Here's brother Jim Coburn in his later years, seconding forgotten 4th brother Charlie in an underground fight.

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ps1fv136z...ull-500-sg.gif

Originally Posted by G1911 (Post 2311385)

You usually have the answer when there's some question of boxing history I don't know, but I'm pretty surprised you were able to unearth such high quality color film of the 19th century!

Originally Posted by D. Bergin (Post 2311409)

It's amazing what modern technology can do to bring this old footage back to life. Here's what the original footage looked like, before Industrial Light and Magic got involved in the restoration process.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GRjJ9o4cl5...lr_Corbett.gif

Originally Posted by G1911 (Post 2311419)

Seriously now, it's amazing how well some of the old video has been preserved and improved with time. It's a ton of fun to put on some of the old video when sorting through a stack of T or N cards while seeing these guys in action. Baseball and boxing have the best and longest histories of the sports, but unlike baseball, boxing mostly forgets its past. Jack Johnson, Joe Louis, Jack Dempsey and Russell Crowe as James J. Braddock are about all that get mentioned before Ali.

Originally Posted by G1911 (Post 2311776)

Today was a good day. 22 of the 23 fragments are now reunited back together, the last remaining is the torn Choyinski in another board members collection. Thank you to the private collector who worked a deal with me!

Thought the odds of doing this were near 0 after the original seller finally clued on, happy to get this close to restoring it.

Originally Posted by wicker56 (Post 2312059)

Greg,

I can’t believe the condition of these panels. It’s really impressive.

Originally Posted by G1911 (Post 2315980)

Great color on that example

Originally Posted by D. Bergin (Post 2310412)

Is this Buster Douglas card actually a tough card? I've got at least a couple stashed away in an album and never thought twice about them before, but there doesn't seem to be much of a history of them on-line. I figured they were mass produced like the Muhammad Ali AW Sega card.....but maybe not so much.

Originally Posted by G1911 (Post 2317573)

Barry and Sullivan are from the Heroes of the Ring set, the 3rd card from numbered series F. Loving these Ogden's, up to 31 different boxing cards across the series that constitute these closely related black border issues.

Originally Posted by sthoemke (Post 2317288)

Just picked up the French version. Add this to the Buster Douglas checklist.

Originally Posted by Exhibitman (Post 2317723)

Tres bien.

Originally Posted by D. Bergin (Post 2317690)

If I remember correctly, that last card is Bob Fitzsimmons and Peter Maher re-enacting their bout near the Texas border for the cameras. This time on higher ground and with a bigger crowd, then their original mostly secret location of a sand bar, just on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande.