Autograph Auction Saturday 14 December 2013 11:00
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Autograph Auction Saturday 14 December 2013 11:00 International Autograph Auctions (IAA) Radisson Edwardian Heathrow Hotel 140 Bath Road Heathrow UB3 5AW International Autograph Auctions (IAA) (Autograph Auction) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 1 slight corner creasing and a few minor faults. G to generally GULLY JOHN: (1783-1863) English Boxer, Sportsman and VG, 5 Politician. Signed Free Front envelope panel, addressed in his Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 hand to Thomas Clift at the Magpie & Stumps, Fetter Lane, London and dated Pontefract, 27th September 1835 in his hand. Signed ('J Gully') in the lower left corner. Very slightly Lot: 7 irregularly neatly trimmed and with light age wear, G. The ALI MUHAMMAD: (1942- ) American Boxer, World Magpie & Stumps public house is situated opposite the Old Heavyweight Champion. Signed First Day Cover Bailey and was famous for serving execution breakfasts up until commemorating the boxer and featuring an image of Ali in a 1868 when mass public hangings were stopped. boxing action pose, with brief gold printed text alongside. Post Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00 marked at Rome, 5th September 1990. Signed ('Muhammad Ali') in blue ink with his name alone to a clear area. With a small oval authentication sticker neatly affixed. VG Lot: 2 Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 WILLARD JESS: (1881-1968) American World Heavyweight Boxing Champion 1915-19. Blue fountain pen ink signature ('Yours truly, Jess Willard') on a slim oblong 8vo piece. Willard Lot: 8 has added his address in Glendale, California, and the date, ALI MUHAMMAD: (1942- ) American Boxer, World 19th February 1939, in his hand beneath his signature. Some Heavyweight Champion. Signed 8 x 10 photograph, a close-up light age wear and creasing, just touching the very conclusion portrait of Ali in semi-profile speaking on a telephone. Signed of the signature, G ('Muhammad Ali') in bold black ink to a light area of the image Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 and dated 20th February 1989 in his hand. Ali has added an additional statement in his hand beneath his signature, 'Serve God, He is the Goal'. About EX Lot: 3 Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 DEMPSEY JACK: (1895-1983) American Boxer, World Heavyweight Champion 1919-26. An exceptional, vintage signed and inscribed 7.5 x 9.5 photograph of the young Lot: 9 Manassa Mauler standing in a three quarter length pose ALI MUHAMMAD: (1942- ) American Boxer, World wearing a dapper suit, waistcoat and with a cap upon his head. Heavyweight Champion. Signed colour 8 x 10 photograph of Ali Photograph by Woodbury of Los Angeles. Signed in dark in a full length pose in a boxing ring, standing over Sonny fountain pen ink across a light area of the background, 'To my Liston who lies flat on the canvas before him. Signed friend Charlie Quinn, with Sincerest Best Wishes From Jack ('Muhammad Ali') in bold black ink with his name alone to a Dempsey, World's Champion'. Signed photographs of light area of the image. Mounted beneath perspex to a black Dempsey from this early stage of his career, as World marbled wooden board and with an engraved plaque beneath Champion, are rare. Some light age wear and slight surface the photograph. 12 x 15 overall. VG and corner creasing, G Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Lot: 10 Lot: 4 ALI MUHAMMAD: (1942- ) American Boxer, World CARNERA PRIMO: (1906-1967) Italian Boxer, World Heavyweight Champion. Signed colour 12 x 16 print entitled Heavyweight Champion 1933-34. Bold blue fountain pen ink The Greatest by artist Leon Evans, featuring multiple images of signature ('Primo Carnera') on a page removed from an Ali. Signed by Ali in bold black ink with his name alone across a autograph album. One very slight smudge at the very clear area at the centre of the image. Also signed in pencil by conclusion of the signature and some slight show through from the artist to the lower white border. Limited edition number 378 the signature to the verso. VG of 850. About EX Estimate: £60.00 - £80.00 Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Lot: 5 Lot: 11 BOXING: Small selection of vintage signed postcard ALI MUHAMMAD: (1942- ) American Boxer, World photographs by the boxers Gene Tunney (World Heavyweight Heavyweight Champion. Signed colour 15 x 23 print entitled Champion 1926-28), Max Baer (World Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali - The Peoples Champion by artist Paddy 1934-35) and Ken Overlin (World Middleweight Champion 1940- Monaghan. The image depicts Ali standing in a full length 41; signed to verso). Each of the images depict the subjects in boxing pose, with a number of smaller images in the full length boxing poses and all are signed in fountain pen inks. background. Limited edition number 635 of 850. Signed by both Some slight corner creasing, G to VG, 3 Ali ('Muhammad Ali') and Mongahan in bold pencil to the lower Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 white border. Accompanied by the original certificate of guarantee. Rolled, VG Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Lot: 6 BOXING: A good, small group of signed postcard photographs and slightly larger, 8 x 10 (1) by various boxers, most of them Lot: 12 World Heavyweight Champions, comprising Max Baer, Max BOXING: A printed 4to brochure, being the International Boxing Schmeling, Jack Dempsey, Jack Sharkey and Gene Tunney. Hall of Fame's official press kit for the sixth annual Induction Most of the images show the subjects in boxing poses. Some weekend, 8th - 11th June 1995, signed in bold black inks to the 1 of 73 International Autograph Auctions (IAA) (Autograph Auction) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com front cover by the boxers Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Ken United Footballer & LAW DENIS (1940- ) Scotland & Norton, Leon Spinks and Floyd Patterson. All have signed with Manchester United Footballer. Signed 8 x 10 photograph by their names alone to clear areas. About EX both Best and Law individually, the image depicting the two Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 players in an action shot during a Manchester United match, Best finding the back of the net. Signed by both with their names alone in bold black ink to the lower white border. EX Lot: 13 Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00 HAGLER MARVELOUS MARVIN: (1954- ) American Boxer, World Middleweight Champion 1980-87. A pair of red Lonsdale boxing gloves, each signed ('Marvelous Marvin Hagler') in bold Lot: 19 black ink with his name alone. VG, 2 BEST GEORGE: (1946-2005) Northern Ireland & Manchester Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00 United Footballer. Signed colour 8 x 12 photograph of Best crouching in a full length pose wearing his red and white Manchester United football strip. Signed in bold black ink with Lot: 14 his name alone to a light area at the centre of the image. HEARNS THOMAS (1958- ) American Boxer, the first in Together with a signed 10 x 8 photograph by both Bobby and history to win five world titles in five different divisions & Jackie Charlton individually, the image depicting the two HAGLER MARVELOUS MARVIN (1954- ) American Boxer, brothers standing alongside each other in three quarter length World Middleweight Champion 1980-87. A red Lonsdale boxing poses, wearing identical football strips, and Bobby holding a glove individually signed by both Hearns and Hagler, each with football in one hand. Signed by each with their names alone in their names alone in bold black inks. VG Hearns and Hagler blue and black inks to clear areas of the image. EX, 2 fought each other for the World Middleweight Championship on Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00 15th April 1985 in a bout (billed as 'The War') which is considered by many to be one of the finest boxing matches in history, despite only lasting three rounds. Hagler proved Lot: 20 victorious and the win cemented his legacy as one of the BECKHAM DAVID: (1975- ) English Footballer. Signed greatest middleweights of all time. colour 11.5 x 8 photograph of Beckham in a full length action Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 pose alongside Diego Placente during England's match against Argentina at the World Cup 2002. Signed by Beckham in bold black ink to a clear area of the image, adding his squad number Lot: 15 7 beneath his signature. EX BOXING: Selection of signed postcard photographs and slightly Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00 larger, a few 8 x 10s, by various boxers including Henry Cooper (3), Terry Downes, Dave 'Boy' Green, Frank Bruno, Max Schmeling, Kid Gavilan, Lennox Lewis etc. G to generally VG, Lot: 21 11 BECKHAM DAVID: (1975- ) English Footballer. Signed Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00 colour 8 x 12 photograph of Beckham crouched in a full length pose wearing his Real Madrid football kit. Signed in bold black ink across a light area at the centre of the image, adding his Lot: 16 squad number 23 beneath his signature. Matted in black and MOORE BOBBY: (1941-1993) English Footballer, Captain of white and framed and glazed in a black and gold coloured the England World Cup winning team, 1966. Signed 5 x 7 frame to an overall size of 14.5 x 23.5. VG photograph of Moore in a smiling head and shoulders pose. A Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00 printed caption at the base of the image states 'Follow the Blues with the Evening Echo'. Signed by Moore in blue ink to a light area at the centre of the image. Some extremely minor, Lot: 22 light creasing, otherwise VG BECKHAM DAVID: (1975- ) English Footballer. An official Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 souvenir Umbro red England short sleeved football jersey, signed by Beckham in black ink with his name alone.