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[G1911]

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.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by G1911

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.

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.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

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.

Thanks Dave. I thought I recognized the back of Bob Fitzsimmons head, but no clue on the other gent. The card appears in series B as well, with a different tint and a differently cropped photo. I believe its the only fight card in the Ogdens' series.

[G1911]

Nothing gold can stay. But silver lives forever.

Young Corbett's T220 card sometimes feels like the only time he was ever depicted differently from the photo used for this T218/T225.

[G1911]

The image is from Gans' audition for the original stage version of The Karate Kid.

[searching]

2 x mid 1920 boxer cards, dont know which set they are from, the backs are blank
Rose and Smith.jpg

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by searching

2 x mid 1920 boxer cards, dont know which set they are from, the backs are blank
Attachment 561072

c. 1923-24 Willards Chocolates V137

Canadian issue.

From a series of 56 boxers

[Writehooks]

Those two cards are from the mid-1920s Willard's Chocolates set (V137), an unnumbered, blank-backed 56-card issue from Canada. They can be found in both sepia or black and white. Biggest names in the set are Dempsey, Jeffries, Fitzsimmons and Ketchel.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by G1911

The image is from Gans' audition for the original stage version of The Karate Kid.

I always thought that Hong Kong Phooey thing was such a weird pose that they had to be making it up. I was wrong.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

I always thought that Hong Kong Phooey thing was such a weird pose that they had to be making it up. I was wrong.

Never get tired of this photo. Still don't know what he was doing, or why but it's hilarious. This card, the E77 Kaufman with half his top inexplicably missing, the E79 Sharkey 'bare ass', there's some funny old pictures and artwork.