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Lot # 544: John L. Sullivan 19th Century Scrapbook (2)

Category: John L. Sullivan

Starting Bid: $300.00

Bids: 1 (Bid History)

Time Left: Auction closed

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Item was in Auction "December 2003",
which ran from 11/5/2003 12:00 AM to
12/4/2003 9:00 PM



One of the finest scrapbooks you will ever see. 15x12” behemoth is a couple of hundred pages in length and filled with hindered of clippings of the Great John L. as well as all the other great fighters of the era. There are Police Gazette engraving from such bouts as Sullivan-Kilrain, Sullivan-Muldoon (wrestling), Sullivan-Mitchell, Dixon-McGovern. Fitzsimmons-Dempsey, Corbett-Mitchell, Corbett-Fitzsimmons, and more. Also, Billy Mitchell’s supplements and several full page homages to John L. Bad binding and coverless o/w Good. Also, matching 1920s-30s entertainment scrapbook. Wonderful movie mag clips from Lon Chaney to the Barrymore's.

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