Latest Pickups

[chalupacollects]

Picked up Iron Mike auto on commemorative coin -1995IMG_5948.jpg


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[G1911]

Stretching the definition of a recent pick-up, but I bought these months ago and had COMC finally ship them not too long ago and finally got around to sorting everything into my collection. When I see old boxing for .50 to $1, I tend to just buy it even if I don't know much of anything about it, that's a fun price to just accumulate old stuff of champions.

[D. Bergin]

LOL, nice Ingemar's.

Thanks to about a 5 year span in Sweden and some of it's neighboring countries, and taking Muhammad Ali and modern rainbow variations out of the mix...Ingemar Johansson probably had more different cards produced of him than any other boxer in the hobby.

Floyd Patterson might be in 2nd place...just because of his affiliation with Johansson.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

LOL, nice Ingemar's.

Thanks to about a 5 year span in Sweden and some of it's neighboring countries, and taking Muhammad Ali and modern rainbow variations out of the mix...Ingemar Johansson probably had more different cards produced of him than any other boxer in the hobby.

Floyd Patterson might be in 2nd place...just because of his affiliation with Johansson.

After seeing just how many different Ingemar photos there are from just Dutch Gum alone, I am not surprised to learn this lol

[G1911]

And an 1889 N269 card from Lorillard's, with the Ballin & Liebler credit that I got this week. Personally, I think Mr. Pendergast's sweet mustache is more impressive than any won/loss record in the boxing ring.

[Exhibitman]

Yeah, the guys in that era had some serious face furniture. You could do a collection of them. Actually I did...

John C Heenan:



Paddy Ryan:



Joe Goss:



George Godfrey:



The Great John L.



Richard K. Fox:



IMHO Goss wins that contest. I don't even know how you eat with a crumb catcher like that over your mouth.

[G1911]

Now those are some 'staches. It's just not the same these days when our champions don't have extravagant facial hair