Addendum (11/23 - 3:44 pm): We have briefly edited the original description based upon new information provided to us by an eminent boxing historian. The changes deal strictly with a few minor historical inaccuracies relating to the boxer or boxers referenced here. All our original information pertaining to the item (or items) offered in the lot (condition, provenance, dimensions, etc.) remains unchanged and is accurate. 

Pair of leather training gloves used by former nineteenth-century undefeated World Lightweight Champion Jack McAuliffe, "The Napoleon of the Ring." Each of the skin-tight fingerless gloves bears a handwritten notation in black ink on one side. The right-hand glove has the notation on the palm and reads "Skin Gloves Used In Training By Jack McAuliffe." The other glove has the notation on the back: "Skin Tight Gloves Used By Jack McAuliffe." These gloves come with the special provenance of having once resided in the famed boxing collection of Stanley Weston and are accompanied by a signed letter from Weston's daughter attesting to their provenance. According to the Weston family, McAuliffe originally presented these gloves to Nat Fleischer, founder of The Ring magazine, in 1935. (Fleischer was also McAuliffe's biographer.) Fleischer, in turn, gave them to Weston, who was Fleischer's neighbor and later worked for Fleischer at The Ring magazine for 14 years. 'Fighting in the last two decades of the 19^th century, McAuliffe was a renowned lightweight title-holder and one of only a few boxing champions to retire undefeated. He was inducted into The Ring Boxing Hall of Fame in 1954 and the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1995. Each glove is well worn, with a few small tears, but the leather remains supple.