Buy/Sell/Trade - July 2004

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Posted By: warshawlaw

My book is still available, although the first printing is nearly gone.

One of the last areas of sports card collecting left without a decent guide is boxing cards. No more. I have written a comprehensive guide to American boxing cards from 1886 to 1966. Boxing Collectors News urged its readers to buy the book.

This book was literally five years in the making. I started compiling lists of prices and data on boxing card sets in 1999. The guide is over 160 pages long and includes virtually every major set issued from 1886 to 1966. Items are given an encyclopedic treatment, with extensive written commentaries on the cards and hundreds of illustrations. Checklists that are more comprehensive than anything ever before published are included, as are real prices on cards compiled over the years from private sales, ebay and auctions. The first third of the book is devoted to 19th century issues, including Old Judge and Gypsy Queen, Mayo, Allen & Ginter, Newsboy, Lorillard, etc., and sets like N162, N43, N28, N29, N150, etc. Also included is a big section on cabinet cards from various photographers of the era like Fox, Morris, Hall, Sarony, Chickering, etc. The middle third of the book covers 20th century cards, including virtually all of the T cards (Red Sun, Turkey Red, Tolstoi, Mecca, Hassan, Kopec, Pet, Miners Extra, Red Cross, Honest Long Cut, Dixie Queen, etc.) and E cards (Scrappers, American Caramel, etc.) as well as Goudey, York, Leaf, Topps, etc. I am especially proud of the third section, which catalogues and exhaustively checklists the issues of the Exhibit Supply Company. Special Exhibit card sections include a visual catalogue of Jack Dempsey cards, images of boxers in the movies, and a comprehensive set of matrices indexing and checklisting every known boxing-related Exhibit card.

The book is $40.00 and is shipped via priority mail for $3.85.