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[G1911]

4 more premium Mayo's, getting close to a 70 card full set of the 2 main types.

Corbett is one of the better cards in the set, and cool because he dates the set to c. 1894-1895. No other card has a copyright line. SGC is able to read that copyright line and use it to date the card, but they are unable to extrapolate the seemingly obvious that all of the other cards don't predate Corbett by 4 years. Dixon was the featherweight champion of the world when this set was issued, and the only card in the series showing gloves (32 of the cards feature a fighter with his fists up facing the same direction, 3 have an arms crossed pose). Kilrain is famous for his fight with Sullivan and carries a modest premium. It is a shame there are so few boxing sets from the 19th century that are realistically completable for most collectors; Mayo's are pretty much the only one with more than a handful of cards in the set that are a realistic goal.

The Dixon seems to clearly be in worse shape than the 1.5 Corbett Name at Bottom, but this is why I'm not a professional grader.

[Exhibitman]

This one hurt to sell, but it wasn't in my future collection plans, so off it went to REA for the current auction.

[G1911]

4 T219's, all with the green Honest Long Cut backs. This puts me at 48/50 on that back, and at 157/200 for the true T219 Master Set.

[Jewish-collector]

I can't figure out how the hell the bidding on Adam's Joe Chonskia SGC EX+ 70 is so low.

[G1911]

My favorite boxing card, probably for the last time I'll get to post one in a pickup thread. Mike is propped up on my desk for awhile. The odds I will secure another copy are probably very low as the known copies have consolidated. This is my pinnacle of boxing SP's since Graziano is out of my league.

P.S. - I am still looking for a picture of, or proof that, the James J. Corbett T220 Silver slabbed PSA 2 is real and exists and is not a labelling error of the Young Corbett.

[G1911]

3 more silvers. The Randall/Belasco is one of the cards with a thin layer of the silver over the caption. It has proven awfully confusing to me how the names were actually printed in this series. Some cards they are printed as one might expect, a single printing of the name on top of the silver (though all other black on the card was printed only BEFORE the silver application). It is not particularly rare to find cards like this though, where there is definitely a thin layer of the silver over the name. If they ran the sheet, applied the silver metallic layer, then printed the captions on top, I would expect that we would find a not insignificant amount of cards showing a shifted caption from the sheet not being 100% perfectly centered every time they ran it. Yet, I've never found even 1 card like that.

The Dempsey is the closest I have come to a miscut T220 Silver; the back inner frame is tough the border, just a quarter mm from showing the adjacent card.

The Burke is just a Burke, but it's a great picture so I got him too.

[G1911]

Last of the Mayo's for awhile, I expect. After cracking these out and closely examining, I still cannot find a mark on Hall that PSA notated. Not that it matters much in this grade, but I was curious. Usually with the right angle you can make a subtle mark appear clearly present, but I came up empty. The damage between his legs is paper loss, not a mark.

McAuliffe was a great lightweight world champion. Hall was an excellent fighter who was a rival of Fitzsimmons and tried and failed to take Dempsey's MW crown after their bout was cancelled because Hall got into a fight and was stabbed. Daly was a decent fighter who was a sparring partner for Corbett and Jeffries later in his career, and also wrestled.