Your oddest memorabilia

[ksfarmboy]

Here’s an early to mid 1920’s sweater with the first inception of the Pitt State Kansas Gorillas mascot. Looks more like Sasquatch🤣.

[Exhibitman]

This mailer was intended to be hung on doorknobs of newsstands to solicit sales of a newspaper special on the fight. Someone saved this circular all these years...

Honorable mention:




From the same fight. This is an entirely illegal betting slip. There was no State of New York Betting Commissioners. Great art for a bookie's device. I've been collecting others too, from other sports and other fights. Here are a pair of 1959 betting slips for football and basketball:

[Vintagedeputy]

I have the signed construction contract and sub-contractor payment checks for the house that Phillies Whiz Kid Granny Hamner and his wife had built in 1958 in Richmond, Va.

[Writehooks]

1915 brass watch fob commemorating Jess Willard's dethroning of Jack Johnson for the world heavyweight championship. Shaped like a boxing glove, the 2-inch design has Willard's name and likeness flanked by two American flags on the front, while the inscription on the reverse reads: "Redeemer of the White Race, April 5, 1915, Havana, Cuba."