Mar 30, 2017 - Sale 2441

Sale 2441 - Lot 515

Price Realized: $ 1,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(SPORT--BOXING.) RING MAGAZINE. 16 black and white photographs of African American boxers from the archives of Ring Magazine. uniform 8 x 10 glossy photos, mostly sepia toned; remnants of black album paper on the reverse of some; a couple with small chips from the top corner margin; generally very good condition, but should be seen. Vp, circa 1890's to 1910

Additional Details

rare photographs from the files of ring magazine, 'the bible of boxing.' Includes Sam Langford, Jack Johnson, Joe Walcott, Joe Gans, Willies Jackson, Joe Rivers, Chick Suggs, Jack McVey, Joe Butler, Kid Norfolk, Jack Blackburn, Peter Jackson (two copies), Bob Armstrong, (The 'Black Adonis'), and Joe Jeanette. Ring magazine was founded by Nat Fleischer in 1922, and is still published today.