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Sporting Memorabilia Monday 04 November 2013 14:00 Graham Budd Auctions Ltd Sotheby's 34-35 New Bond Street London W1A 2AA Graham Budd Auctions Ltd ( Sporting Memorabilia) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 1 A French spelter figure of a boxer in training circa 1920s, Frank Duffett's extensive collection of boxing programmes signed to the base H. FUGERE, height 34cm., 13 1/2in. mostly dating from the 1950s, international fights, Harry Levine Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00 & Jack Solomons promotions, also a good number of regional British promotions, plus some amateur and overseas content (a qty. in two cartons) Lot: 9 Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 A silver-mounted ebonised walking stick associated with the bare knuckle prize fighter Jem Smith, hallmarked London, 1887, the handle end inscribed PRESENTED TO J. HARPER, Lot: 2 BY J. ARCHBELL & J. EMLER ESQRES., OF THE JACK OF Selected volumes from Frank Duffett's boxing library, Vincent NEWBURY FOR SERVICES RENDERED TO JEM SMITH IN George Dowling's Fistiana or The Oracle of the Ring 1841; THE INTERNATIONAL FIGHT FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF Bells Life's Fights For The Championship and Celebration Prize THE WORLD 1887 The inscription refers to the $10,000 bare Battles 1855; Pierce Egan's Boxiana in 5 vols, undated; Henry knuckle fight on 19th December 1887 between England's Jem Downes Miles's Pugilistica in 3 vols 1906; Bohun Lynch's The Smith and the NY born American Jake Kilrain that took place at Prize Ring 1925; and four of Balliere's Popular Atlas of the Isle de Souverains in France. The bout was abandoned as a Anatomy and Physiology of the Male and Female Body (15) draw after 106 rounds which lasted 2 1/2 hours due to the fall of Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 darkness. The recipient of the stick, Jack Harper, was a second in Smith's corner at the fight. Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 Lot: 3 Frank Duffett's library of boxing books, a large quantity of 20th century publications (qty. in 4 cartons) Lot: 10 Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 An Elgin National Watch Co. gold-plated size 16 open faced boxing pocket watch with an engraving on the back plate reading "Welterweight Championship '05", Class 110, 15 jewels pendent wind and set, grade 313, Movement Serial number Lot: 4 15178020., Nickel plated damaskeened movement, movement Frank Duffett's extensive collection of boxing running, needs cleaning, case number 6400039 (front and back annuals/yearbooks, with examples from the pre-war era, plus plates removed anti-clockwise), three small chips to outer rim of continental publications, also magazines and a bound volume face of Boxing News from 1909-10, bindings in need of repair (a qty. Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 in two cartons) Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 Lot: 11 Italian movie poster for the film 'The Greatest' featuring Lot: 5 Muhammad Ali, 'io sono il piu grande', published in Rome, Frank Duffett's index of fighters and their records, a wooden 1977, 70 by 33cm.,27 1/2 by 13in. box containing index cards of boxer held alphabetically, with Estimate: £120.00 - £180.00 details in manuscript of the boxer's name, salary, opponents, results and purses, invaluable for research purposes Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Lot: 12 A rare Muhammad Ali signing of the movie poster for Will Smith's "Ali", signature in gold marker pen, COA attached to the Lot: 6 reverse relating to the signing for The Food Bank of Indiana, Nine antiquarian boxing prints, comprising: portraits of Dutch mounted and framed under Perspex, 102 by 72.5cm., 40 by 28 Sam, Thomas Spring, Jack Randall, Edward Stockman plus 1/2in. fight scenes for Thomas Johnson v Isaac Perrins, Molineux v Estimate: £500.00 - £800.00 Cribb, Mendoza v Humphreys, one titled "Prize Fight", and vignettes featuring Thomas Sayers, all framed, various sizes, typically 56 by 43cm., 22 by 17in; sold together with a framed Vanity Fair print "Hard Hitter" (10) Lot: 13 Estimate: £250.00 - £350.00 A signed Muhammad Ali boxing gloves presentation, a pair of Everlast boxing gloves, the right hand glove signed in black marker pen. housed upright in a perspex display case, the base set with a title plaque, 34 by 40cm., 13 1/2 by 15 3/4in. Lot: 7 Estimate: £200.00 - £250.00 A collection of 20 small antiquarian boxing prints, including fight scenes and venues and portraits of pugilists, the lot including a printed poem "Tom Sayers and Benicia Boy" and a printed illustrated report "Undeniable Mill Between Gammon and Lot: 14 Dandy The Black", mostly framed; together with a small qty. of 'Champions Forever' multi-signed photographic boxing print, photographs of 20th century boxers, a couple bearing signed by all the subjects, comprising Muhammad Ali, Ken autographs (a qty.) Norton, George Foreman, Larry Holmes & Joe Frazier, framed Estimate: £200.00 - £250.00 & glazed, 54 by 42cm., 21 1/4 by 16 1/2in. Estimate: £500.00 - £700.00 Lot: 8 Lot: 15 1 of 28 Graham Budd Auctions Ltd ( Sporting Memorabilia) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com 'Champions Forever' multi-signed photographic boxing print, including the boxers Ronnie James, Arthur Danahar, Mark Hart, signed by all the subjects in gold marker pen, comprising Bob Ramsey, Gwyn Williams & Norman Lewis, second Muhammad Ali, Ken Norton, George Foreman, Larry Holmes & impression, published 1942, with d/j not illustrated Joe Frazier, COA taped to the reverse, mounted, framed & Estimate: £20.00 - £30.00 glazed, 71 by 58cm., 28 by 23in. Estimate: £400.00 - £600.00 Lot: 23 A very rare programme for the first ever boxing event held at Lot: 16 Wembley Stadium, Tom Gibbons (USA) v Jack Bloomfield A signed "Iron" Mike Tyson framed display, a 16 by 12in. colour (England) Great International Heavy-Weight Contest 9th August photograph signed by Tyson in black marker pen, mounted 1924, sold together with Tom Morgan's 'Wembley Presents 25 above a replica WBC World Championship medallion, framed & Years of Sport' carrying a report on p.9 and explaining that the glazed, 97 by 67cm., 38 by 26 1/2in., dealer's COA taped to the attendance was so disappointingly poor that Gibbons refused to backboard go into the ring until 'he had seen the colour of the cash,' hence Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 this programme is a rarity (2) Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 Lot: 17 A Mike Tyson/Frank Bruno signed boxing gloves presentation, Lot: 24 two red right-hand Everlast gloves, one signature per glove, Three Vanity Fair prints of sportsmen, comprising: the billiards mounted with a colour action photograph and contained within players John Roberts and W H Stevenson, both by Spy, and the frame by an unusual and creative domed perspex cover, 72 the boxer Captain Edgeworth Johnston, titled 'Hard Hitter', all by 92cm., 28 1/4 by 36in. unframed not illustrated Estimate: £140.00 - £180.00 Estimate: £60.00 - £80.00 Lot: 18 Lot: 25 A double-signed Evander Holyfield v Larry Holmes 1992 fight A signed W G Grace letter dated 31st May 1896, complete with poster, for the World Heavyweight Championship bout at original envelope and addressed to Mr Woodiwiss of Upminster Caesars Palace, 18th June, both signatures in black marker thanking him and his wife for "putting him up during the Surrey pen, framed & glazed, 79 by 63.5cm., 31 by 25in. match", on black edged note paper, sent from his Clifton Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 address; sold with a photocopy of a Country Life article from 1897 featuring Mr E S Woodiwiss and his dachshunds at Hill Place, Upminster (2) Lot: 19 Estimate: £150.00 - £250.00 Charles Griffin (born 1946) BOXING HEROES Barry McGuigan, Mike Tyson, Steve Collins, Chris Eubank, Frank Bruno, Lennox Lewis, Joe Louis, Henry Cooper, Muhammad Lot: 26 Ali, Joe Frazier, Rocky Marciano, George Foreman, Nigel An England v Australia 1926 Oval Test Match autographed Benn, Gene Tunney & Audley Harrison, outside of the ring can display, with a sheet signed in ink by the 11 England players be seen the commentator Harry Carpenter and the promoters Hobbs, Sutcliffe, Woolley, Hendren, Chapman, Stevens, Jack Solomons and Don King The auctioneer had been asked Rhodes, Geary, Tate, Larwood & Strudwick, and two others, to point out that this work is not offered with copyright. The mounted together with a postcard of the England captain A P F acclaimed British newspaper caricaturist Charles Griffin has Chapman, a scorecard, a Daily Sketch newspaper and title worked for many leading publications including Punch, Daily plaque, 63.5 by 107cm., 25 by 42in. The first four matches in Mirror, Observer, Times, Sunday People, Sun, Daily Express the 1926 Series had ended in draws. England thereby regained and Sunday Express. The Ashes by winning the Oval Test by 289 runs. Trailing after Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 the 1st innings, England openers took the game away from Australia by both scoring 2nd innings hundreds. Estimate: £300.00 - £500.00 Lot: 20 Souvenir mini boxing gloves and pin badges for the Randy Turpin v Sugar Ray Robinson World Middleweight Lot: 27 Championship fight in 1951 Autographed cricket memorabilia, comprising a framed official Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 autograph sheet for the 1961 Australians; three signed letters from the commentator Brian Johnston on BBC stationery addressed to a young boy by the same name; and an Lot: 21 autograph book with a selection of cricketers including Worrell, Souvenir mini boxing gloves and pin badges for the Ingemar Lindwall, Compton, Hassett, Evans etc., and other sportsmen Johansson v Floyd Patterson World Heavyweight including the Celtic & Scottish Youth football teams (3) not Championship fight in 1959 illustrated