Jun 21, 2016 - Sale 2420

Sale 2420 - Lot 54

Unsold
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(ARIZONA.) Fly's Gallery. Cabinet card of Tombstone wrestler Ed Wilson, inscribed on verso. Albumen photograph, 5 3/4 x 4 inches, on original Fly mount with credit on recto and verso; several pinholes in corners, slight loss to two corners; inscribed on verso "To William Muldoon, with compliments of Ed. S. Wilson." Tombstone, AZ, circa 1880s
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In frontier Tombstone, wrestling was the big spectator sport, and Ed Wilson was one of the local heroes. He is mentioned in sources like the George Whitwell Parsons diary and a December 1885 issue of the Daily Epitaph. The card was inscribed to William "Solid" Muldoon (1852-1933), the leading wrestler of his time, holding the world Greco-Roman championship from 1880 to 1890. The photograph was by Camillus Fly, Tombstone's leading photographer of this period.