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