Let's See Some Awesome Boxing Cards!

[D. Bergin]

Hmmm, here's a Kid Francis and Young Perez from the French c. 1935-36 Nestle set, which interestingly seems to be full of boxers whom the Germans had deemed "enemies".

[D. Bergin]

Here's another one from the same set who was able to flee in time. A Polish-Jewish boxer who got stripped of his German Titles in 1933....Fled to France, then England, and finally to the U.S., where he settled, just before things got really bad in Europe. Married Greta Meinstein, who was a track star barred from the 1936 Olympics by Germany.

Also showing a German Boxing Card of Seelig.

Erich Seelig

[Exhibitman]

Seelig publicity photo:



Card O The Day:



2014 IBHOF inductee Ledoux, from the H.B. series, hand-colored

[Jerry G]

Thank you, Adam and Dave for sharing those very touching and disturbing cards. An unfortunate, but important history lesson.

...I have always liked this Campioni della Sport Sonny Liston.

[Exhibitman]

Liston was a scary dude, in and out of the ring. I like this one:



it is from the last printing of the Kid Herman set. Here is his paper handout 'CDV':

[herbc]

[G1911]

I'll add one of my favorites for the day. I like the old-man Donovan image for some reason, (62 according to the card back but he had to have turned 63 before it was issued, based on his birthdate, the text on the Joe Gans card, and the ledger) and he is, I think, one of the more interesting 19th century fighters. Also the only boxer to get 2 solo cards in the T220 issue. His 'Print Group 1' card is here in most of its guises.

Donovan was included with the Silver's and quickly pulled from some reason (You'd think a problem with the plate would be corrected or the card just pulled and left out, but they went ahead and repainted the entire background for some reason between the card's removal and the issue of the T220-2 White Border print run). His Mecca 30 and Mecca 649 backs are next to it from the White Border run.

Below it are 3 oddities I have alongside my near-master set but aren't actual variations. At left is one without red ink or faded (I am always suspicious of red-to-orange 'errors' nowadays; they are easily faked, easily happen naturally with aging and sun, and commonly faked for issues people care about, like T206). Second is a miscut (hard to see in photo at the resolution Net54 allows) showing the card above him on the sheet was also Mike Donovan of-today for at least part of the way up the column, as expected for American Lithographic cards. Last is the yellow smear, whether this was accidental defect was printed early on and fixed or happened part way through I don't know, but it seems to only come with the F649 reverse, which indicate it may have been an early recurring issue at the very beginning.

At bottom is the T223 Dixie Queen version of the same card, which uses the same artwork and so was presumably done with American Lithography, though I suspect and can not prove it was put out several years after the T220's were in early 1911 (possibly very late in 1910). The Tolstoi T220 is missing, one of 3 Tolstoi's I am still looking for. A shameless plug that I would like to buy one goes here.