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Lot # 1971: Archie Moore Boxing License and Presentational Book Inscribed by Jack Dempsey

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Item was in Auction "December 2002",
which ran from 12/5/2002 12:00 AM to
12/31/2002 9:00 PM



Book with cover made from rabbit fur, adorned with colorful badge, contains a page of signatures, one from another heavyweight champ, Jack Dempsey. With inscription, it reads “To Archie Moore the uncrowned champ in memory of a great great day at Huck with a great man… Good Luck Archie Your Pal Jack Dempsey 9/16/54”. Also contains a superb pencil sketch of Archie Moore and printed dinner menu for “Al Muerzo” (a dinner function dated Sept. 16, 1954 with special guests Jack Dempsey, Luis Angel Firpo, Archie Moore, & Ismael C. Pace). Boxing license (8.5x13”) is signed in blue ink. License has small 1” tear which protrudes the signature twice and a 1” tear on right side, o/w EX.

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