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Graham Budd Auctions Sotheby's 34-35 New Bond Street Sporting Memorabilia London W1A 2AA United Kingdom Started 04 Nov 2013 14:00 GMT Lot Description Lots 1 to 7. Frank Duffett . Frank Duffett was one of Britain`s greatest boxing trainers. He was born and lived all his life in the 1 Camberwell area of London and worked with many British champions, including Jack Doyle, Len Harvey, Freddie Mills and Billy Walker. Duffett produced his own British tit ...[more] Selected volumes from Frank Duffett`s boxing library, Vincent George Dowling`s Fistiana or The Oracle of the Ring 1841; Bells Life`s 2 Fights For The Championship and Celebration Prize Battles 1855; Pierce Egan`s Boxiana in 5 vols, undated; Henry Downes Miles`s Pugilistica in 3 vols 1906; Bohun Lynch` ...[more] 3 Frank Duffett`s library of boxing books, a large quantity of 20th century publications (qty. in 4 cartons) Frank Duffett`s extensive collection of boxing annuals/yearbooks, with examples from the pre-war era, plus continental publications, also 4 magazines and a bound volume of Boxing News from 1909-10, bindings in need of repair (a qty. in two cartons) Frank Duffett`s index of fighters and their records, a wooden box containing index cards of boxer held alphabetically, with details in 5 manuscript of the boxer`s name, salary, opponents, results and purses, invaluable for research purposes Nine antiquarian boxing prints, comprising: portraits of Dutch Sam, Thomas Spring, Jack Randall, Edward Stockman plus fight scenes 6 for Thomas Johnson v Isaac Perrins, Molineux v Cribb, Mendoza v Humphreys, one titled "Prize Fight", and vignettes featuring Thomas Sayers, all framed, various ...[more] A collection of 20 small antiquarian boxing prints, including fight scenes and venues and portraits of pugilists, the lot including a printed 7 poem "Tom Sayers and Benicia Boy" and a printed illustrated report "Undeniable Mill Between Gammon and Dandy The Black", mostly framed; to ...[more] 8 A French spelter figure of a boxer in training circa 1920s, signed to the base H. FUGERE, height 34cm., 13 1/2in. A silver-mounted ebonised walking stick associated with the bare knuckle prize fighter Jem Smith, hallmarked London, 1887, the handle 9 end inscribed PRESENTED TO J. HARPER, BY J. ARCHBELL & J. EMLER ESQRES., OF THE JACK OF NEWBURY FOR SERVICES RENDERED TO JEM SMITH IN THE INTERNATIONAL FIGHT FOR ...[more] An Elgin National Watch Co. gold-plated size 16 open faced boxing pocket watch with an engraving on the back plate reading 10 "Welterweight Championship `05", Class 110, 15 jewels pendent wind and set, grade 313, Movement Serial number 15178020., Nickel plated damaskeened movement, movement r ...[more] Italian movie poster for the film `The Greatest` featuring Muhammad Ali, `io sono il piu grande`, published in Rome, 1977, 70 by 11 33cm.,27 1/2 by 13in. A rare Muhammad Ali signing of the movie poster for Will Smith`s "Ali", signature in gold marker pen, COA attached to the reverse 12 relating to the signing for The Food Bank of Indiana, mounted and framed under Perspex, 102 by 72.5cm., 40 by 28 1/2in. A signed Muhammad Ali boxing gloves presentation, a pair of Everlast boxing gloves, the right hand glove signed in black marker pen. 13 housed upright in a perspex display case, the base set with a title plaque, 34 by 40cm., 13 1/2 by 15 3/4in. `Champions Forever` multi-signed photographic boxing print, signed by all the subjects, comprising Muhammad Ali, Ken Norton, George 14 Foreman, Larry Holmes & Joe Frazier, framed & glazed, 54 by 42cm., 21 1/4 by 16 1/2in. `Champions Forever` multi-signed photographic boxing print, signed by all the subjects in gold marker pen, comprising Muhammad Ali, 15 Ken Norton, George Foreman, Larry Holmes & Joe Frazier, COA taped to the reverse, mounted, framed & glazed, 71 by 58cm., 28 by 23in. A signed "Iron" Mike Tyson framed display, a 16 by 12in. colour photograph signed by Tyson in black marker pen, mounted above a 16 replica WBC World Championship medallion, framed & glazed, 97 by 67cm., 38 by 26 1/2in., dealer`s COA taped to the backboard A Mike Tyson/Frank Bruno signed boxing gloves presentation, two red right-hand Everlast gloves, one signature per glove, mounted 17 with a colour action photograph and contained within the frame by an unusual and creative domed perspex cover, 72 by 92cm., 28 1/4 by 36in. A double-signed Evander Holyfield v Larry Holmes 1992 fight poster, for the World Heavyweight Championship bout at Caesars Palace, 18 18th June, both signatures in black marker pen, framed & glazed, 79 by 63.5cm., 31 by 25in. Charles Griffin (born 1946). BOXING HEROES. Barry McGuigan, Mike Tyson, Steve Collins, Chris Eubank, Frank Bruno, Lennox Lewis, 19 Joe Louis, Henry Cooper, Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Rocky Marciano, George Foreman, Nigel Benn, Gene Tunney & Audley Harrison, outside of the ring can be seen the comme ...[more] Souvenir mini boxing gloves and pin badges for the Randy Turpin v Sugar Ray Robinson World Middleweight Championship fight in 20 1951 Souvenir mini boxing gloves and pin badges for the Ingemar Johansson v Floyd Patterson World Heavyweight Championship fight in 21 1959 A signed copy of the 10th Marquess of Queensberry`s book `The Sporting Queensberrys`, with additional signatures including the 22 boxers Ronnie James, Arthur Danahar, Mark Hart, Bob Ramsey, Gwyn Williams & Norman Lewis, second impression, published 1942, with d/j A very rare programme for the first ever boxing event held at Wembley Stadium, Tom Gibbons (USA) v Jack Bloomfield (England) Great 23 International Heavy-Weight Contest 9th August 1924, sold together with Tom Morgan`s `Wembley Presents 25 Years of Sport` carrying a report on p.9 and explaining that the ...[more] Three Vanity Fair prints of sportsmen, comprising: the billiards players John Roberts and W H Stevenson, both by Spy, and the boxer 24 Captain Edgeworth Johnston, titled `Hard Hitter`, all unframed An England v Australia 1926 Oval Test Match autographed display, with a sheet signed in ink by the 11 England players Hobbs, 26 Sutcliffe, Woolley, Hendren, Chapman, Stevens, Rhodes, Geary, Tate, Larwood & Strudwick, and two others, mounted together with a postcard of the England captain A P F Chap ...[more] Autographed cricket memorabilia, comprising a framed official autograph sheet for the 1961 Australians; three signed letters from the 27 commentator Brian Johnston on BBC stationery addressed to a young boy by the same name; and an autograph book with a selection of cricketers including Worrell, Lindwa ...[more] A multi-signed 1980 Centenary Test souvenir brochure, bearing 56 signatures throughout, a full hand written list is available in the lot, 28 signatures including Titmuss, Lock, Cowdrey, Graveney, Barrington, Voce, E Bedser, Ames, Boycott, Jackman, Gower, O`Reilly, Massie, Walters, Yardley, Gooch, Close ...[more] A signed `Atherton`s Barmy Army Down Under` 1994-95 T-shirt, 14 signatures of the England team including Gatting, Thorpe, Gooch, 29 Russell etc. ONE OF THE EARLIEST ARTEFACTS WITH AN ASSOCIATION BETWEEN ENGLISH AND AUSTRALIAN CRICKET . A prize bat 30 presented by Fred Lillywhite to George Marshall in 1861, the bat with specially selected ringed grain, stamped M. Dark and Sons, Lords Ground, the reverse stamped PRIZE BAT, FROM FRED LILLYWHITE, T ...[more] A cricket bat extensively signed by cricketers in 1931, the signatures including the first full New Zealand touring team to England and 14 31 county cricket teams, there are a total of 173 signatures of which 76 played for England, 14 for New Zealand and 1 for Australia, there are also 55 Wisden Cricke ...[more] 2 volumes of James Lillywhite`s Cricketers` Annuals formerly owned by Sir Pelham `Plum` Warner, for 1879 and 1885, ownership 32 signature to each title page, rebound in green cloth Grace (W.G.) Cricket, the Crown Quarto Edition de Luxe limited edition signed by W.G. Grace and numbered 40/652, J.W. Arrowsmith, 33 Bristol, and Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., London, 1891 4 volumes on cricket, comprising a rare survival to have the original dust jacket of Lord Hawke`s `Recollections and Reminiscences`, 34 1924; two by P.F. Warner `How We Recovered The Ashes`, 1904 and `England v Australia`, 1912; and `The Memorial Biography of Dr. W.G. Grace` by the Lords Hawke & Ha ...[more] A signed copy of The Larwood Story, signed on the first right-hand page in blue biro BEST WISHES, HAROLD LARWOOD, SEPT 27th 35 83, paperback by Harold Larwood with Kevin Perkins, revised edition, published in Sydney, 1982 Two rare and early cricket scorecards for the Grand Cricket Matches at Canterbury in 1866 and 1867, mounted side-by-side in a picture 36 frame, both fixtures being for North v South of The Thames, both printed by S. Hyde of Canterbury, 28 by 37cm., 11 by 14 1/2in. The 1866 match is interesting in that ...[more] A large collection of cricket scorecards, three pre-wars comprising Worcestershire v South Africans 1935 and two Leicestershire county 37 matches from 1938, otherwise a post-war collection dating from the late 1940s onwards, mostly for Lord`s and The Oval, at county & one day level, also tour match ...[more] A programme for the first ever floodlit cricket match 11th August 1952: Arsenal Football Club v Middlesex County Cricket Club, in aid of 38 Jack Young`s Benefit Fund, played at Highbury Stadium Printed sheet music for H J Snelling`s `The Cricketana Galop`, composed and dedicated to the president & members of the Mauritius 39 Cricket Club and mounted with an albumen photograph, published in London circa 1865. A Seemingly uncatalogued piece of music to be played Allegro in a 2/4 time signat ...[more] A commemorative handkerchief celebrating the cricket career and achievements of J.B.

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