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Click here to subscribeBOXING-CARDS Miscellany of part sets relevant to boxing. 6/43 British Army Boxers issued in 1913, 16 x Boxers issued by Cope Bros circa 1915 catalogued at £16 each, James J Corbett issued by Ogdens circa 1915, Jess Willard card issued by Cope Bros titled New Worlds Champion, number 126 of the 1915 set and valued at £50. Fair-generally good
BOXING Small collection of boxing programmes and also included is a ticket for Sugar Ray Robinson V Terry Downes , 25/9/62 at Wembley , (torn along fold) and a flyer for Winstone v King at Wembley 24/3/64. Programmes are Conteh v Ahumada 1/10/74 World Light-Heavyweight Championship, Downes v Pusateri 25/11/63, Spider Webb v Terry Downes 9/12/58, Richardson v Cleveland Williams 25/3/58 also features Floyd Patterson, Curvis v Graham 11/1/60, Cooper v Folley 5/12/61 and Walker v Prescott 10/9/63 also featuring Sonny Liston. Some folds, creases etc, some results noted. Fair-generally good
BOXING - 1948 BELGIUM Programme for boxing gala at Heysel Stadium, Brussels, 23/5/48, Bouts include European Middleweight Title fight between Cyrille Delannoit , champion of Belgium and Marcel Cerdan , Champion of France. Delannoit won on points. Other fights included Dussart v Famechon. Cerdan later regained the title and on 16/6/49 he defeated Tony Zalein Jersey City to win the world title but was tragically killed in a plane crash in the Azores in November 49 whilst en route to America to fight La Motta. Pencil notations. Generally good
PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS 1960s Fifteen press photographs, majority 1960s, various sports with captions and photographer stamps on reverse sides, all black/white and most measure 10" x 8". Includes Tony Jacklin playing a shot, boxing, Cooper v Erskine, Jackie Stewart, Piggott and Carson (1982), David Hemery, Boycott, Jim Cooper and Henry Cooper, 3 photographs of Henry Cooper in training, Bugner v Talhami (1969), Stanley Matthews with Brian London, and three pictures of Roger Taylor playing different opponents at Wimbledon in the 1960s. Generally good
EDWARD PRENTISA Throng in Leicester SquareOil on canvasSigned and dated 182583 x 107cm.An important work by the English Genre painter.Prentis was a popular artist during his lifetime and known for his domestic interiors. This, an exterior scene, is an unusual work for the artist, portraying a large crowd of people in Leicester Square. On the right hand side of the painting we can identify the Sablonniere Hotel, run by an Italian named Pagliano which was a popular establishment with foreign visitors to London and was situated on the South-East side of the square, in a building in which the artist Hogarth had lived for many years. In the foreground two wealthily dressed women in silks and bonnets look wholly out of their depth whilst surrounded and jostled by a melee of all manner of people; spectators of a Punch and Judy show, tradespeople selling pies, cabbages, brooms and brushes, gentlemen in top hats, a beggar with outstretched hand and a blacked-up man or sweep are just some of the characters that make up the crowd. Between the two wealthy women marches a smartly dressed black boy. The larger of the two women looks down in dismay as a terrier aggressively tugs at her expensive paisley shawl, she has dropped a purse out of which her aperient pills (laxatives) have rolled onto the ground before her. Placards advertising the plays in London's theatre land and boxing matches are held aloft. The boxing placard or 'Noble Science of Self-Defence' as it is described in the painting, was for an exhibition at Fives Court. "FIVES-COURT. A place distinguished (in addition to the game of fives) for sparring matches between the pugilists. The combatants belonging to the prize-ring exhibit the art of self-defence at the Fives-Court with the gloves; and it is frequently at this Court where public challenges are given and accepted by the boxers. The most refined and fastidious person may attend these exhibitions of sparring with pleasure; as they are conducted with all the neatness, elegance and science of FENCING. Admission, 3s. each person. It is situated in St. Martin's Street, Leicester-fields."(Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, revised and corrected by Pierce Egan 1823) Interestingly, the Fives-Court operated as a boxing venue from 1802 until it closed in 1826 and was demolished as part of the redevelopment of the Royal Mews area into what became Trafalgar Square. The site is now under the northern edge of the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery.The quality of this painting is particularly pleasing, the colour and brightness of the oil being extremely good. Rich in character and detail, pathos and humour, this is a particularly fine work by Prentis. (See illustration) Condition report: The following report has been commissioned from a painting conservator. The painting has a light biscuit-coloured ground. In the foreground and buildings a second resin-rich preparatory layer has been applied to mark out the composition. This layer varies in colour according to the buildings and figures but is always thin, transparent, high resin content. This layer has been vulnerable to cleaning.There are areas where drying cracks have developed during the painting process, eg. trees, areas of black paint, shadows in the foreground. The underlying rennais layer is the cause of these crack. The cracks have been widely overpainted.Buildings: the windows and roofs have been somewhat overpainted.Tree, left: extensive drying cracks - overpainted.Figures: Many of the faces remain in good condition with a high degree of detail. There is overpainting in the hair (black paint) and thinners around some of the faces where the preparatory layer has been removed by over cleaning. The central figure in the lilac dress is quite well preserved, as are the figures standing to the left, aside from the blacks and browns. The basket of vegetables and umbrellas are good.Overall: Many areas well preserved but matt areas are overpaint, covering drying cracks and wear.
An autograph book, containing signatures collected by Hugh 'Pat' Floyd over his boxing career, includes numerous opponents and other boxing greats, to include, but not limited to: Ted 'Kid' Lewis, Harry Mallin, J J Braddock, Jack Dempsey, Joe Bowker, Primo Carnera, Alex Buxton, Tommy Farr, Petey Sarron, Mohammed Ali, Jim Watt, Henry Cooper, Eddie Thomas, John Conteh, Terry Downes and others
MIXED, part sets & odds, inc. mainly Wills, Churchmans, Phillips, Players, Gallaher, Lambert & Butler, Ogdens, Scottish Co-Op Soc., Oxo, Turf, Carreras, Typhoo etc; inc. Shakespeare, flowers, birds, military, sealife, buildings, boxing, flags, military, arms etc., duplication, in two modern albums, FR to VG, 705*
MIXED, part sets & odds, inc. Lambert & Butler Interesting Sidelights; Millhoff; Mitchell; Wix Henry; Amalgamated Press Sporting Champions; Ardath Cricket Tennis & Golf Celebrities; Bocnal Luminous Silhouettes; Carreras, Film & Stage Beauties, Turf Slides; Churchman, Boxing Personalities, Howlers, Association Footballers; Kensitas silk flags etc., slight duplication, in two modern albums, slight a.m.r., P to VG, 570*
ALI MUHAMMAD: (1942-2016) American Boxer, World Heavyweight Champion. Large signed colour 16 x 19 photograph of Ali standing in a half-length pose in a boxing ring, during a training session in a gym. Signed ('Muhammad Ali') in bold black ink with his name alone to a clear area at the base of the image. About EX
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