N174 Old Judge 'Master Set' checklisting and images

[G1911]

Type 7 is probably the worst understood in the states. It is a set of 76 cards released in Australia c. 1889/1890, counting 2 different poses of a non-boxing subject and the Slavin variation.

1) The OJ cards have the "Cigarette factory" caption at bottom.

2) They also come in a pink tint variation - I have observed that the ugly pink colored cards have tended to age even worse than the black and white OJ's. Some categorize this as damage peculiar to only certain OJ issuances.

3) The third type comes with a Dog's Head branded back instead of the blank back of all other cards, and remove the bottom branding. All of the boxers probably exist/existed in this type based on what has been observed of the subjects the Australian's care about a lot more than the prize fighters. These are very tough.

4) I am not clear yet if the Dog's Heads also had a pink tint print run.

My list had 8 pugilists until recently, where I am told that Jennings and Jack Thompson exist. I am not sure which boxer "Jennings" is.

In addition, Joe Thompson was a booker/manager/promoter/sports businessman who might be of interest to boxing fans but I do not think he belongs in the boxing subset. Professor William Miller was a fine boxer, but was more known as a wrestler so I have checklisted him as a wrestler - others may not agree with that categorization.


I have seen 3 additional boxers claimed but highly doubt this is actually true and these will ever be shown: Dempsey, Kilrain and Jem Smith.

Boxing Checklist:
# Name, Caption (variation)
1 Jac’ R. Burke, Pugilist
2 Martin Costello
3 Mick Dooley, Pugilist
4 Bob Fitzsimmons, Champion Middle Weight
5 Larry Foley, Ex champion. Boxer of Australia
6 Peter Jackson
7 Jennings
8 Frank E. Slavin (name left)
9 Frank E. Slavin (name right)
10 Jack Thompson


Here's the Dog's Heads I have saved