Autograph Auction - Day 1 Saturday 15 February 2014 12:00
Autograph Auction - Day 1 Saturday 15 February 2014 12:00 International Autograph Auctions (IAA) Office address Foxhall Business Centre Foxhall Road NG7 6LH International Autograph Auctions (IAA) (Autograph Auction - Day 1) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 1 BOXING: Selection of vintage signed postcard photographs, ALI MUHAMMAD: (1942- ) American Boxer, World and a few smaller, by various boxers, mainly British and some Heavyweight Champion. Bold, dark vintage pencil signature of them champions, including Len Harvey, Jack Doyle, Freddie ('Cassius Clay') on a page contained in a small oblong 12mo Mills, Al Phillips, Len Bennett, Bobby Boland, Stan Hawthorne, autograph album. Beneath his signature Clay has added the Bert Hornby, Laurie Buxton, Frank Tierney, Johnny Williams, words Next World Champ in his hand. The autograph album Billy Thompson, Jimmy Wilde (magazine photograph, FR) etc. also includes twenty other signatures by a variety of different Each of the images depict the subjects in boxing poses. FR to famous individuals including Harold Macmillan and his wife G, 24 Dorothy, Eleanor Roosevelt, Adam Faith, Harry Secombe, Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00 Richard Beeching, members of the Bolshoi Ballet etc. Ali's signature is very slightly smudged. The album lacking the spine and back cover, about VG Each of the signatures were Lot: 6 obtained by the vendor's father who was the Banqueting BOXING: Selection of vintage signed postcard photographs, Manager of the Victoria Hotel in Nottingham. Ali was at the and a few smaller, by various boxers, mainly British and some Victoria Hotel in Nottingham on 28th May 1963 ahead of the of them champions, including Tommy Farr, Ken Shaw, Joe British Middleweight Championship fight between George Beckett, Ronnie Burr, Jock Taylor, Gwyn Williams, Chris Aldridge and Mick Leahy which also took place in Nottingham.
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