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Lot 1631: Beautiful Boxing Card Collection with 1948 Leaf Set (177)

ITEM DESCRIPTION

 
Reserve: $500.00
Winning Bid: $3,307.51
Price Realized: $3,952.48
Auction Date:6/26/2005 9:00 PM EST

Fresh set of cards from an old time boxing collector includes some stuff we have never seen before. Includes: 1) 1948 Leaf boxing set of 49 cards minus the impossible Graziano. Beautiful colors and good centering. Dempsey EX-MT, Johnson NRMT, Corbett NRMT, Robinson NRMT, Tunney EX-MT, Sullivan EX-MT, Louis (scratch o/w EX-MT). Otherwise EX-MT with many NRMT cards. 2) Exhibit cards (1930s?) we have not seen. Green, cream and yellow backgrounds with the fighters pictured and their biggest fight named on the bottom: Hart, Burns, Willard, Tunney, Sharkey, Schmeling, Louis (back damage), Baer, Carnera and 5 others trimmed o/w EX-MT (14). 3) 53 boxing exhibit cards (1950s): Louis, Marciano, Robinson (2). Overall EX-MT. 4) T218/T220/T223: total of 7 cards of all blacks (Langford, Jeanette, Jackson, Gans & Dixon. Good. 5) T219 Jack Johnson (Miner’s Extra back) GD-VG. 6) Complete set of 50 Boxing Personalities by Churchman (1938). Overall EX.

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