(SPORT BOXING) Silver print photograph of Joe Louis with Ma

Sale 2105 - Lot 357

Price Realized: $ 600

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

(SPORT--BOXING.) Silver print photograph of Joe Louis with Marshall Miles and another person [possibly Julian Black,] sepia toned, 8 1/2x11. Photographer's name "Gus Jansen, [Chicago?] 1934" in the negative.

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Marshall Davis Miles first met Louis when he was a young fighter in Detroit. Marshall and his brothers Percy and Mitchell were successful businessmen in the city. He took over management of the boxer in 1946 when Louis's manager John Roxborough went to prison.