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[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by AMPduppp

Picked these up off the BST about two weeks ago. They were listed as 1922 Caramelos la Colmena. Has anyone ever seen any other cards from this issue before?

The set would be from Spain; doesn't look like them, though.

https://www.classicsoccercards.com/p...tistas-de-cine

[G1911]

150 out of 250 down. The early 1910 Jeffries card uses a pre-Johnson fight prep picture. This issue is almost certainly the first of the ATC boxing issues.

[Exhibitman]

That photo is actually from around 1899. He had hair



A few years later, not so much



By 1909



Scary, isn't it?

[AMPduppp]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

The set would be from Spain; doesn't look like them, though.

https://www.classicsoccercards.com/p...tistas-de-cine

Agreed that it doesn't resemble any of the soccer issues there, but I'm kinda lost as to what other set they could be from then.

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by AMPduppp

Agreed that it doesn't resemble any of the soccer issues there, but I'm kinda lost as to what other set they could be from then.

No way to know for sure. There are so many uncatalogued or barely catalogued issues from countries other than the USA and UK. I've got prewar types from all over Europe that have zero information.

[G1911]

An E78. Not a pretty one, but they are fairly tough.

[G1911]

More Mayo's, getting closer to a 70 card run. The Van Heest is an excellent example of the toning variations in the name at bottom cards. Carney and Plimmer next to him are not the super tough true black and white versions, they just have the slight sepia filter instead of the red one on Van Heest here. The number of actual different versions is still a mystery to me as it becomes hard to separate the less obvious ones.

Edwards and Carney are the 'good ones' in my eye as they appeared in the T220 silver series. Griffo, Plimmer and Edwards held legitimate claims to world championships in their weight classes. Carney was the lightweight champion of England for a time in the 1880's.

[G1911]

Fitzsimmons, x2. The cards are from around the time he vacated the Middleweight world title to fight at Heavyweight.

[G1911]

Added a C52 of Bert Keyes. Puts me at 93 down, not an easy set. Keyes was one the east coasters in the no decision era who has a small record if you look up his W/L credits, but appears to have been fighting almost constant 6 round bouts. He fought Summers, Murphy, Hyland, Cross, McFarland, Baldwin, Frayne, Marto and pretty much every other lightweight who appears in the sets of this time.

[Musashi]

Picked these up at different times, but they all just came back from SGC today:

[Exhibitman]

Nice. Are you mixing the silvers and whites or do you have a set of each?

[G1911]

If you build one border color, you have to build the other!

And then, you need to add the Tolstoi's too for a bit more fun.

At that point you might as well get both Mecca factories.

[CobbSpikedMe]

Recently picked up these two W529s. I think the O'Dowd is a type 6 and the Britton is a type 7. Can anyone confirm this for me please? I really like these "big head" boxing cards and was thrilled to get these from a Greg Morris auction. I never seem to win his auctions. (I'm too cheap I think )




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[Exhibitman]

Looks right.

[G1911]

Speaking of rare Mike Donovan's...

Acquired from the BST. I like Mike Donovan stuff since his T220 Silver is my favorite card and he has very few cards of any kind. This is larger than an Imperial Cabinet. 7 9/16's wide and 9 and 15/16's tall, just a hair smaller than an 8x10.

This might be the picture used on Donovan's T220 from wave 2, portraying him in his prime as a boxer instead of as an old man. It's just a hair different, the orientation of the clenched fist, slightly different angle of the foot. The differences may be artistic license or it may have been based on a photograph that is almost the same as this but not quite.

[Musashi]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Nice. Are you mixing the silvers and whites or do you have a set of each?

Just a set of whites. Not really trying for a set of silvers. Even if money was no object, the big two just don't come up for sale often enough to tempt me to try.