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Lot 877: Jack Dempsey in Action (7 photos)

ITEM DESCRIPTION

 
Reserve: $100.00
Winning Bid: $225.00
Price Realized: $268.88
Auction Date:11/30/2007 9:00 PM EST

Exceptional quality Wide World News photos show great ring action: three brilliant shots of the 1923 Tommy Gibbons fight including definitive image of the referee holding JD's arm aloft proclaiming him the winner, three of Firpo on the canvas with Dempsey hovering (1923), unusual shot of him training for the 1919 Jess Willard with the African-American "Jamaica Kid" (a bigot, he refused to fight blacks). Overall 7x9 and strong EX+.

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