Favorite boxing related memorabilia

[wicker56]

This is one of my favorite boxing related photos. The back states it was taken at the Cypress St. Jeffries family home in L.A.. Many years ago, I recall a paper weight that sold in a Leland's auction with the same image.

[wicker56]

This is an 8x10 of Benny Leonard from 1918

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Writehooks


That McCarty Romeo & Julieta card is really nice. You definitely don’t see many Of those. I actually wasn’t aware that he was in the Romeo & Julieta set. I have a couple of McCarty post cards in a box somewhere. McCarty is buried just a couple of hours away from where I live.

I also really like the Ali record. I’m not an Ali fan, but I’d still buy a copy of that record, if I ever get a chance.

[wicker56]

Gregg,


I wondered if you would post a pic of the Donovan panel. It really is a great piece. Do you plan on framing it?

[G1911]

I only collect the trading cards, have to draw the line somewhere or I'll never have a clean home again. I have more books than I do cards it seems sometimes, but not as a collectible, just reader copies for my library. I'd love too see what others have.

My present favorite single item is probably still this piece, but this thread will be a good excuse to dig through my boxes in the back of the safe and pull some more obscure favorites. I guess my favorite is often what's come in most recently and I haven't looked at 300 times yet.

[wicker56]

I have had these Susini's for years and not thought much about them. For some reason they caught my eye yesterday, when I was going through some scans.

[G1911]

I have not got it framed yet; I wanted to piece together and frame the whole sheet but that's not going to happen. Still, I want to wait for the others to come to market and to try and connect with whoever it was that bought the Beecher and Moore sheets, so that they can perhaps, even if momentarily, be reunited all together so that someone may piece each panel into it's slot by comparing the edges, so we can know the total sheet layout.

I also need to compare the 8 images on the panel to the 4 known Donovan final-production cards. On all the panels, there are differences between of the 8 image slots (some major, like the 'stain' looking dark mark in the upper right of 1 of the Driscoll slots, and some very minor and hard to spot), it may prove useful to connect each Donovan to it's slot to perhaps get some idea what may have happened that led to the extreme SP'ing.

Eventually I'll give up on repiecing the sheet and frame it to protect it, It's in a big top loader right now inside a soft sleeve designed to hold an 8x10 piece of paper, but that's not ideal for the long term.

Very nice Susini's, I love that image of Johnson. Greatly regret not getting one when they were more affordable

[wicker56]

Johnson Polin Brothers postcard

[wicker56]

Out of all of the Johnson postcards out there, this has to be the most popular image. I think it really shows how many people actually despised Johnson.

[wicker56]

This is a blank back panel. Johnson and Greb are two of my favorite boxers to read about. I'll share some of the books that I have of each, some time tomorrow. I know most don't like the 48 Leaf set , but it happens to be one of my favorites. I have to admit that the 48 Leaf of Johnson is probably one of his worst cards though.