Catalogue Click for Auction info Sports Online (#17OL) 12/06/2016 11:30 AM ACDT - 12/16/2016 3:30 PM ACDT Closed Auction Info Lot 41"Pugilistica - The History of British Boxing" by Henry Downes Miles in 3 volumes [Edinburgh, 1906]. Fair/Good condition. Click image to enlarge PreviousNext Lot closed - Price Realized:$70 Request Condition Report Sports Online (#17OL) 12/06/2016 11:30 AM ACDT - 12/16/2016 3:30 PM ACDT Closed Auction Info Description Description: "Pugilistica - The History of British Boxing" by Henry Downes Miles in 3 volumes [Edinburgh, 1906]. Fair/Good condition. Categories: Terms and conditions Please note: This auction was held by Mossgreen and is shown on the Leski Auctions website for reference only. Other lots in this sale << < LOT 39 YOUNG GRIFFO, 2 ounce boxing gloves worn by "Griffo" (Albert Griffiths) when he met "Torpedo" (Billy Murphy) in a bout for the World Featherweight Championship in Sydney on 22nd July 1891. These gloves were owned by W.McFayden of Sydney, and sold on behlf of 'Boys Town' Memorial Hospital during a radio broadcast on 2UE Sydney in 1943. {Young Griffo (1871-1927) was Australia's first world boxing champion}. LOT 40 BOB FITZSIMMONS, hand-made horse-shoe, stamped at top "Bob Fitzsimmons", and impressed with 15 stars; together with book "The Fighting Blacksmith - The Story of Bob Fitzsimmons" by Odd [London, 1976]. {Bob Fitzsimmons (1863-1917, born in Helston, Cornwall, lived in Timaru NZ 1872-83, before moving on to Australia & USA. He made boxing history as the sport's first three-division world champion, and World Heavyweight Champion 1897-99. One of the hardest punchers in boxing history. LOT 42 BOXING & SPORTS ANNUALS: "T.S.Andrews' World Sporting Annual Record Book" [Milwauke] for 1910, 1912, 1914, 1915 (2), 1916, 1922, 1923 & 1929; "Police Gazette Sporting Annual" [New York] for 1912, 1914, 1915 & 1916; "Everlast Boxing Record" [New York] for 1932, 1933 & 1937; "Post Boxing Record & Sports Annual" [New York] for 1934; "Boxing News Record" [New York] for 1937, 1938 & 1939; Two bound volumes, containing True's "Boxing Yearbook" [Greenwich, USA] for 1957-66 & 1970-75. Poor/Fair conditio LOT 43 BOXING SCRAPBOOKS (6), ex Jack Ryder collection, noted Muhammad Ali signature on "Vacation Hotels NZ" tourist brochure; Muhammad Ali signature on fight flyer (laminated); signed photographs of Johnny Summers, Gus Venn, Petey Sarron & Eddie Cotton; 1926 Dempsey v Tunney postcard; Tony Mundine fight poster. Inspection will reward. > >>
