Offered is a nice group of memorabilia, principally photographs, covering the intersecting careers of Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney, best known for their title fights in 1926 and 1927. The lot includes an original official promotional photo from Dempsey-Tunney II featuring the two champs and HOF promoter Tex Rickard superimposed over Soldier Field in Chicago, original movie stills from the film “The Prizefighter and the Lady,” in which Dempsey served as a "referee," a complete set of German-made Dempsey-Tunney II transfer stamps depicting the Long Count bout, a rare 1924 Universal Film Exchanges promotional letterhead for Dempsey’s Fight and Win movie serial, original photographs of Dempsey by Apeda and Paul Thompson, and much more. A full list is posted on our website.

1921 Dempsey portrait by Paul Thompson

1920s Apeda double-weight Dempsey portrait with Apeda price list on back

1920s Apeda double-weight Dempsey portrait

1920s Gus Wilson training facility promotional photo of Dempsey with Belgian fighter Pierre Charles

1920s 5 x 7 Jack Dempsey movie studio mail reply photo

1924 Universal Film Exchanges promotional letterhead for Dempsey’s Fight and Win movie serial

1925 Gene Tunney 5 x 7 fighter issued promotional photo

1926 Gene Tunney training photo

1926 movie lobby card of Gene Tunney in “The Fighting Marine”

1927 German transfer stamps complete sheet/set Dempsey-Tunney II

1933 movie stills from The Prizefighter and the Lady (2) w/Dempsey, Baer, Carnera, Jeffries, Willard

1935 Brown & Bigelow blotter Dempsey-Tunney II

1936 Rippled Wheat 4 x 5 Jack Dempsey photo premium

1945 snapshot of Jack Dempsey and Jim Jeffries w/notes and signature on back by Bill Aiton (fmr. MLB Player)

1920s still of Dempsey and his second wife Estelle Taylor

1939 news photo of Hannah Dempsey visiting Jack in hospital