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Posted By: D. Bergin

As a Boxing collector I love all the old Woodcuts and Steel engravings. It's the only way to get an image of most of the old Bareknuckle fighters.

The most well known is probably the Harper's and Leslies full centerfold spread of the John C. Heenan vs. Tom Sayers fight of 1860 (actually the Leslies was actually a huge multi-page fold-out). Amazing that an almost 150 year-old piece of memorabilia like this can often be had for under 75 bucks.

The Illustrated Sporting News of London actually had some beautiful large woodcuts/engravings of boxers going all the way back to around 1840 or so in their weekly periodicals.