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Lot Type Grading Description Est $A BOXING 19 Trophy shield with brass boxer and plaque 'Bomber Command, Boxing Championships 1938, Fly, Runner Up, EH Richards'; plus boxing posters (12) including 'Fenech v Calvin Grove' (1993) signed by Jeff Fenech. 100
Ex Lot 20 - Extract 20 Photographs including Bob Fitzsimmons, Les Darcy (5 - including one of Darcy as a blacksmith's apprentice and another of Darcy's funeral cortege), Dave & Clem Sands, Joe Louis, Vic Patrick (4), and a bloodied Jimmy Carruthers. (14) 350 21 Share Certificate 'The National Sporting Club Limited', share certificate No.12 for one share owned by B Glass, dated 11th Feb.1905. Signed by Sec R Isaacs & Director S Myers, with handstamps 'The National Sporting Club Limited, Melbourne'. Folded up into small green leather holder with a diamond faced window. [The club opened in Sydney in October 1902 with the heavyweight boxing championship of Australasia, McColl v Doherty, but collapsed in 1906]. 100
Ex Lot 22 22 Photographs signed by Jersey Joe Walcott, Don King, Larry Holmes, Ingemar Johansson, Floyd Patterson, Joe Frazier, Archie Moore, Sugar Ray Leonard & Johnny Famechon. (9) 200 Page:2 www.abacusauctions.com.au Apr 18, 2020
BOXING (continued) Lot Type Grading Description Est $A
Ex Lot 23 - Extract 23 JOHNNY FAMECHON: Original fight poster for Featherweight Championship of the World, Jose Legra v Johnny Famechon, at Royal Albert Hall in London on 21.1.1969 (also includes Joe Bugner v Rudolph Vaughan), laminated, framed & glazed, overall 49x68cm; together with flyer for fight signed by Johnny Famechon (with originally scheduled date 3.12.1968) & ticket to this fight. Rare. (3) 200 24 VIC PATRICK: Attractive hand-coloured 1940s photograph, with 'Vic Patrick, Light-weight Champion of Australia', on mount, framed & glazed, overall 49x60cm. A couple of tone spots on mount. Together with scrapbook of 1940s-60s boxing press clippings. (2 items) 150 25 RON RICHARDS: Large b/w photograph, with 'Ron Richards', attached to mount, framed & glazed, overall 44x54cm. [Ron Richards was an indigenous middle/light-heavyweight boxer who won several Australian titles, and was inducted into the Australian National Boxing Hall of Fame in 2003] 100