December Pickups

[Exhibitman]

It is as American as chop suey. Just extremely rare. It was made using the art from the first issue of Exhibit 4 on 1 cards, the mixed baseball-boxing-entertainment group. It is only the third example I've ever seen from the boxing set. I have seen a few baseball cards as well. Thinner stock than a cut-down 4 on 1 (those exist too). Interestingly, the three known strips are in different colors: green, light blue and purple.

[Exhibitman]

Collect.com just closed a very strong boxing auction. The group of boxing autographs they had was great. The finest Sonny Liston autographed item I've ever seen--a PC sized self issued promo card--went for $1600 plus juice and a great Ezzard Charles PC went for $375 plus juice. Both those guys died young and before the autograph craze. I did manage to snag one good one, a PC of Marcel Cerdan, the great middleweight champ who died in a plane crash in 1949 on his way here to fight Jake La Motta:

[Robextend]

[Exhibitman]

[Brian Van Horn]

I don't often pick up boxing, but here is one that just arrived and another one I picked up last month. If you have original pictures of Billy Conn, Fritzie Zivic, Harry Greb or Charley Burley, please let me know.

[wake.up.the.echoes]

It's no longer December, but I wanted to bump this thread to include a scan of two Felix Potin album pages that contain the spaces for the boxers (a space for boxer Jo Ventaja can be found on a page with fellow Olympians). Please note: I do not own the album or the scans.