Specialist Autograph Auction Saturday 12 July 2014 11:00
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Specialist Autograph Auction Saturday 12 July 2014 11:00 International Autograph Auctions (IAA) Office address Foxhall Business Centre Foxhall Road NG7 6LH International Autograph Auctions (IAA) (Specialist Autograph Auction) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 1 Lot: 3 BOXING: A printed 8vo menu for ALI MUHAMMAD: (1942- ) a luncheon hosted by Jack American Boxer, World Solomons at Isow's Restaurant Heavyweight Champion. Signed and Jack of Clubs nightspot in 8 x 10 photograph, the image London in honour of the former depicting Ali standing in a full World Champion boxers Max length boxing pose in a Miami Baer, Henry Armstrong and Gus Beach gym. Signed in bold black Lesnevich, 29th October 1958, ink with his name alone to a clear signed to the inside by fifteen area of the image. Some very boxers including Max Baer light surface creasing, otherwise (World Heavyweight Champion VG 1934-35), Henry Armstrong Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00 (World Featherweight Champion 1937-38, World Welterweight Champion 1938-40 and World Lot: 4 Lightweight Champion 1938-39), ALI MUHAMMAD: (1942- ) Gus Lesnevich (World Light American Boxer, World Heavyweight Champion 1941- Heavyweight Champion. Black 48), Carlo Ortiz (World ink signature ('Muhammad Ali') Lightweight Champion 1962-65, on a United States of America 1965-68), Rinty Monaghan one dollar bank note, also signed (World Flyweight Champion 1947- in blue ink by Ali's third wife, 49), Terry Downes (World Veronica Porsche Ali (1955- ), Middleweight Champion 1961- with her name alone. 62), Bruce Woodcock (European Accompanied by four original Heavyweight Champion 1946- colour candid unsigned 4.5 x 3.5 49), Peter Waterman (European photographs, three depicting Welterweight Champion 1958), Muhammad Ali in different head Len Harvey (British Heavyweight and shoulders poses (one Champion 1938-42), Johnny showing him signing the bank Williams (British Heavyweight note) and one showing Veronica Champion 1952-53), Harry Mizler Porsche Ali seated in a car and (British Lightweight Champion with a pen in one hand. An 1934), Eric Boon (British additional note in the hand of a Lightweight Champion 1938-44), collector indicates that the Sammy McCarthy (British autographs were obtained in Featherweight Champion 1954- person on Rodeo Drive in 55), Pat Supple and one other. Beverly Hills in October 1980. All have signed in bold inks, most Some light overall creasing to the in fountain pen inks, to the inside. bank note, G to VG, 5 Some overall staining and age Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 wear, largely to the outer covers, about G Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 Lot: 5 ALI MUHAMMAD: (1942- ) American Boxer, World Lot: 2 Heavyweight Champion. Large MOORE ARCHIE: (1916-1998) signed colour 15 x 19 American Boxer, World Light photograph, an iconic image of Heavyweight Champion 1952-62. Ali in a full length pose in a Signed colour 8 x 10 photograph boxing ring, standing over Sonny of Moore standing in a full length Liston who lies on the canvas boxing pose. Signed in bold blue before him. Signed ('Muhammad ink with his name alone to a clear Ali aka Cassius Clay') in bold area at the base of the image. EX gold ink to a clear area of the Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 background. Double matted in blue and white and framed and glazed in a gold coloured frame to an overall size of 22.5 x 26.5. EX Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 1 of 173 International Autograph Auctions (IAA) (Specialist Autograph Auction) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 6 Paul Junior, Billy Backus, Kid FRAZIER JOE: (1944-2011) Marcel, Laurie Buxton, Joe American Boxer, World Hyman, Baby Day, Tippy Larkin, Heavyweight Champion 1970-73. Fritzie Zivic, Jackie Fields etc. Signed colour 8 x 10 photograph Most of the images depict the of Smokin' Joe standing in a full boxers in boxing poses. G to length boxing pose. Signed in generally VG, 27 bold green ink with his name Estimate: £150.00 - £200.00 alone to a light area of the image. EX Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00 Lot: 10 BOXING: Selection of signed 8 x 10 photographs and a few slightly Lot: 7 larger, by various boxers NORTON KEN: (1943-2013) including Dave Boy Green, Ryan American Boxer, WBC Rhodes, Michael Gomez, Tony Heavyweight Champion March- Sibson, Silky Jones, Johnny June 1978. Signed colour 8 x 10 Nelson, etc. Also including a photograph of Norton standing in multiple signed 9 x 12 a bare chested three quarter photograph by Alan Minter, Ken length pose wearing his Buchanan, Dave Boy Green, and Championship belt. Signed in Charlie Magri. Some duplication. bold blue ink to a clear area at Many images are colour, and the centre of the image, adding most show the boxers in action W. B. C. Champ in his hand poses. VG to EX, 20 beneath his signature. EX Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00 Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00 Lot: 11 Lot: 8 BOXING: Three red Everlast BOXING: A printed 4to brochure, boxing gloves of different sizes, being the International Boxing individually signed by the World Hall of Fame's official press kit Champion boxers Jake LaMotta for the sixth annual Induction (adding Raging Bull beneath his weekend, 8th - 11th June 1995, signature), Nigel Benn and signed in bold black inks to the Manny Pacquiao. All have signed front cover by the boxers in bold black inks. VG to EX, 3 Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Ken Estimate: £80.00 - £120.00 Norton, Leon Spinks and Floyd Patterson. All have signed with their names alone to clear areas. Lot: 12 About EX MR. UNIVERSE: A printed 8vo Estimate: £200.00 - £300.00 menu for a luncheon to commemorate the first British Empire Weight-Lifting Lot: 9 Championships and 'Mr. BOXING: Selection of signed Universe' Contest at Holborn postcard photographs and Restaurant, London, 13th August slightly larger, some 8 x 10s etc., 1948, individually signed to the most vintage, by various verso by eleven weight-lifters and Heavyweight, Bantamweight and bodybuilders (some of them Welterweight Boxers, some of Olympic medallists) including them World or British George Hackenschmidt, Steve Champions, including Ingemar Reeves, John Grimek, Issy Johansson (World Heavyweight Bloomberg, James Halliday, Champion 1959-60), Phil Scott Julian Creus etc. Most of the (magazine photograph), Joe signatures are in bold pencil. Erskine, Henry Cooper, Jack Together with an unsigned Gardner, Richard Dunn, Len printed 8vo official programme for Harvey, Jack Bodell, Joe Bugner, the event held at the Scala Robert Cohen (World Theatre, London. Some light Bantamweight Champion 1954- staining and age wear, G, 2 56), Theo Medina, Maurice Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00 Sandeyron, Bunty Doran and Joe Burman (World Bantamweight Champion for one day in 1923), 2 of 173 International Autograph Auctions (IAA) (Specialist Autograph Auction) Catalogue - Downloaded from UKAuctioneers.com Lot: 13 Shaddick etc.). The album bears WOODFULL WILLIAM: (1897- the ownership signature of the 1965) Australian Cricketer of the South African bowler Vivian Ian 1920s and 30s. Vintage signed Smith. Together with a second postcard photograph of Woodfull autograph album containing nine in a head and shoulders pose signatures including Hedley wearing his cricket cap. Signed Verity, Norman Yardley, Bill ('W M Woodfull') in fountain pen Edrich, Len Hutton, tennis ink with his name alone to a light players Eric Sturgess and Nigel area of the image. VG Cockburn etc., the album also Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 including an official facsimile team sheet of the MCC Tour to South Africa 1938-39 and various ink drawings and verses etc. by Lot: 14 family and friends of the collector. BRADMAN DON: (1908-2001) Some light age wear and minor Australian Cricketer. Book foxing to the second album. G to signed, a hardback edition of VG, 2 Farewell to Cricket, First Edition Estimate: £100.00 - £150.00 published by Hodder & Stoughton, London, May 1950. Signed by Bradman in blue fountain pen ink with his name Lot: 16 alone beneath his frontispiece CRICKET: Selection of signed portrait. Accompanied by the dust colour 8 x 10 photographs and jacket (some tears and areas of slightly larger by various paper loss). Together with a cricketers including Andrew small hardback edition of The Flintof, Kevin Pietersen, Alistair Observer's Book of Cricket by Cook, Joe Root, Stuart Broad, Peter Smith, published by James Anderson, Jonathan Trott, Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., Andrew Strauss, Michael London, 1976 (revised edition), Vaughan, David Gower, Jason signed and inscribed by Denis Gillespie, Matthew Hoggard, Compton to an inside photo Ryan Sidebottom etc. Each of the page. Accompanied by the dust images show the subjects in jacket. G to VG, 2 cricket related poses and all are Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00 boldly signed to clear areas. VG to EX, 16 Estimate: £80.00 - £100.00 Lot: 15 CRICKET: An autograph album containing several multiple Lot: 17 signed pages by various cricket CRICKET: A good selection of teams of the late 1940s colour 9 x 13 printed caricatures comprising England 1947 (12 by the artist John Ireland, each signatures including Len Hutton, individually signed by various Norman Yardley, Godfrey Evans, cricketers including Phil Bill Edrich, Alec Bedser, Denis Edmonds, Dean Jones, Bob Compton, Cyril Washbrook etc.), Willis, Richie Benaud, Geoff a further MCC team of the same Boycott, Mohammed Azharuddin, era (17 signatures including Richard Hadlee, Graham Gooch, Denis Compton, Godfrey Evans, Mike Gatting, Malcolm Marshall, Frank Mann, Len Hutton, Reg Derek Randall, Lance Cairns etc. Simpson, Cyril Washbrook, All are boldly signed to clear Maurice Tremlett, Cliff Gladwin areas and none are inscribed. etc.), Natal (11 signatures Generally VG, 16 including Jackie McGlew, Dudley Estimate: £100.00 - £120.00 Nourse, Hugh Tayfield etc.), Worcestershire CCC (13 signatures including R.