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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 Lot: 4 GULLY JOHN: (1783-1863) CARNERA PRIMO: (1906-1967) English Boxer, Sportsman and Italian Boxer, World Heavyweight Politician. Signed Free Front Champion 1933-34. Bold blue envelope panel, addressed in his fountain pen ink signature ('Primo hand to Thomas Clift at the Carnera') on a page removed Magpie & Stumps, Fetter Lane, from an autograph album. One London and dated Pontefract, very slight smudge at the very 27th September 1835 in his conclusion of the signature and hand. Signed ('J Gully') in the some slight show through from lower left corner. Very slightly the signature to the verso. VG irregularly neatly trimmed and Estimate: £60.00 - £80.00 with light age wear, G. The Magpie & Stumps public house is situated opposite the Old Bailey Lot: 5 and was famous for serving BOXING: Small selection of execution breakfasts up until vintage signed postcard 1868 when mass public hangings photographs by the boxers Gene were stopped. Tunney (World Heavyweight Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00 Champion 1926-28), Max Baer (World Heavyweight Champion 1934-35) and Ken Overlin (World Lot: 2 Middleweight Champion 1940-41; WILLARD JESS: (1881-1968) signed to verso). Each of the American World Heavyweight images depict the subjects in full Boxing Champion 1915-19. Blue length boxing poses and all are fountain pen ink signature ('Yours signed in fountain pen inks. truly, Jess Willard') on a slim Some slight corner creasing, G to oblong 8vo piece. Willard has VG, 3 added his address in Glendale, Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 California, and the date, 19th February 1939, in his hand beneath his signature. Some light Lot: 6 age wear and creasing, just BOXING: A good, small group of touching the very conclusion of signed postcard photographs and the signature, G slightly larger, 8 x 10 (1) by Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 various boxers, most of them World Heavyweight Champions, comprising Max Baer, Max Lot: 3 Schmeling, Jack Dempsey, Jack DEMPSEY JACK: (1895-1983) Sharkey and Gene Tunney. Most American Boxer, World of the images show the subjects Heavyweight Champion 1919-26. in boxing poses. Some slight An exceptional, vintage signed corner creasing and a few minor and inscribed 7.5 x 9.5 faults. G to generally VG, 5 photograph of the young Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Manassa Mauler standing in a three quarter length pose wearing a dapper suit, waistcoat Lot: 7 and with a cap upon his head. ALI MUHAMMAD: (1942- ) Photograph by Woodbury of Los American Boxer, World Angeles. Signed in dark fountain Heavyweight Champion. Signed pen ink across a light area of the First Day Cover commemorating background, 'To my friend the boxer and featuring an image Charlie Quinn, with Sincerest of Ali in a boxing action pose, Best Wishes From Jack with brief gold printed text Dempsey, World's Champion'. alongside. Post marked at Rome, Signed photographs of Dempsey 5th September 1990. Signed from this early stage of his ('Muhammad Ali') in blue ink with career, as World Champion, are his name alone to a clear area. rare. Some light age wear and With a small oval authentication slight surface and corner sticker neatly affixed. VG creasing, G Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 1 of 128 International Autograph Auctions (IAA) (Autograph Auction) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 8 in bold pencil to the lower white ALI MUHAMMAD: (1942- ) border. Accompanied by the American Boxer, World original certificate of guarantee. Heavyweight Champion. Signed Rolled, VG 8 x 10 photograph, a close-up Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 portrait of Ali in semi-profile speaking on a telephone. Signed ('Muhammad Ali') in bold black Lot: 12 ink to a light area of the image BOXING: A printed 4to brochure, and dated 20th February 1989 in being the International Boxing his hand. Ali has added an Hall of Fame's official press kit additional statement in his hand for the sixth annual Induction beneath his signature, 'Serve weekend, 8th - 11th June 1995, God, He is the Goal'. About EX signed in bold black inks to the Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 front cover by the boxers Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Leon Spinks and Floyd Lot: 9 Patterson. All have signed with ALI MUHAMMAD: (1942- ) their names alone to clear areas. American Boxer, World About EX Heavyweight Champion. Signed Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 colour 8 x 10 photograph of Ali in a full length pose in a boxing ring, standing over Sonny Liston who Lot: 13 lies flat on the canvas before him. HAGLER MARVELOUS Signed ('Muhammad Ali') in bold MARVIN: (1954- ) American black ink with his name alone to Boxer, World Middleweight a light area of the image. Champion 1980-87. A pair of red Mounted beneath perspex to a Lonsdale boxing gloves, each black marbled wooden board and signed ('Marvelous Marvin with an engraved plaque beneath Hagler') in bold black ink with his the photograph. 12 x 15 overall. name alone. VG, 2 VG Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00 Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Lot: 14 Lot: 10 HEARNS THOMAS (1958- ) ALI MUHAMMAD: (1942- ) American Boxer, the first in American Boxer, World history to win five world titles in Heavyweight Champion. Signed five different divisions & HAGLER colour 12 x 16 print entitled The MARVELOUS MARVIN (1954- Greatest by artist Leon Evans, ) American Boxer, World featuring multiple images of Ali. Middleweight Champion 1980-87. Signed by Ali in bold black ink A red Lonsdale boxing glove with his name alone across a individually signed by both clear area at the centre of the Hearns and Hagler, each with image. Also signed in pencil by their names alone in bold black the artist to the lower white inks. VG Hearns and Hagler border. Limited edition number fought each other for the World 378 of 850. About EX Middleweight Championship on Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 15th April 1985 in a bout (billed as 'The War') which is considered by many to be one of Lot: 11 the finest boxing matches in ALI MUHAMMAD: (1942- ) history, despite only lasting three American Boxer, World rounds. Hagler proved victorious Heavyweight Champion. Signed and the win cemented his legacy colour 15 x 23 print entitled as one of the greatest Muhammad Ali - The Peoples middleweights of all time. Champion by artist Paddy Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Monaghan. The image depicts Ali standing in a full length boxing pose, with a number of smaller images in the background. Limited edition number 635 of 850. Signed by both Ali ('Muhammad Ali') and Mongahan 2 of 128 International Autograph Auctions (IAA) (Autograph Auction) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 15 Signed by both with their names BOXING: Selection of signed alone in bold black ink to the postcard photographs and lower white border. EX slightly larger, a few 8 x 10s, by Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00 various boxers including Henry Cooper (3), Terry Downes, Dave 'Boy' Green, Frank Bruno, Max Lot: 19 Schmeling, Kid Gavilan, Lennox BEST GEORGE: (1946-2005) Lewis etc. G to generally VG, 11 Northern Ireland & Manchester Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00 United Footballer. Signed colour 8 x 12 photograph of Best crouching in a full length pose Lot: 16 wearing his red and white MOORE BOBBY: (1941-1993) Manchester United football strip. English Footballer, Captain of the Signed in bold black ink with his England World Cup winning name alone to a light area at the team, 1966. Signed 5 x 7 centre of the image. Together photograph of Moore in a smiling with a signed 10 x 8 photograph head and shoulders pose. A by both Bobby and Jackie printed caption at the base of the Charlton individually, the image image states 'Follow the Blues depicting the two brothers with the Evening Echo'. Signed standing alongside each other in by Moore in blue ink to a light three quarter length poses, area at the centre of the image. wearing identical football strips, Some extremely minor, light and Bobby holding a football in creasing, otherwise VG one hand. Signed by each with Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 their names alone in blue and black inks to clear areas of the image. EX, 2 Lot: 17 Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00 MOORE BOBBY: (1941-1993) English Footballer, Captain of the England World Cup winning Lot: 20 team, 1966. Signed 6 x 8 BECKHAM DAVID: (1975- ) photograph of Moore in a half English Footballer. Signed colour length pose kissing the Jules 11.5 x 8 photograph of Beckham Rimet trophy following England's in a full length action pose victory in the 1966 World Cup alongside Diego Placente during finals. Signed in black ink to the England's match against image. Together with a signed Argentina at the World Cup 2002. colour 8 x 6 photograph by both Signed by Beckham in bold black Geoff Hurst and Martin Peters ink to a clear area of the image, individually, the image depicting adding his squad number 7 the England football team in a beneath his signature. EX celebratory mood following their Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00 victory in the 1966 World Cup finals. Signed by both in black inks with their names alone to Lot: 21 light areas of the image (very BECKHAM DAVID: (1975- ) minor smudge to Hurst's English Footballer. Signed colour signature). Some very slight 8 x 12 photograph of Beckham corner creasing, VG, 2 crouched in a full length pose Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 wearing his Real Madrid football kit.