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Lot # 737: 1940 Bill Cooper Boxing Scrapbook (90+ pieces)

Starting Bid: $100.00

Bids: 2 (Bid History)

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Item was in Auction "June 2009 Catalogue",
which ran from 5/2/2009 12:00 AM to
5/31/2009 9:00 PM



This affectionate scrapbook, “Bill Cooper - Boxing Record,” is filled with a personal history that reflects the sport’s history, with (80+) photographs (sizes ranging from 35mm contact sheet frames to 8x10’s), newspaper clippings, passes, tickets, meal tickets, membership cards, and (remnants of) cardboard broadsides. One page in has Cooper’s record from 1938 to 1944, and what follows is a visual feast of the era, including exquisite 3x5’s with Pedro Cavello, contact-sheet prints of Cooper knocking out Luke Hogan, 1938 membership cards to New Main St. Boxing Arena, contestant ticket to Golden Boxing Tournament, festive 8x10 of Cooper and his Maritime mates surrounding actress Susan Hayworth, 8x10 with Bob Olin, group shot (1944) at Camp Shanks with Mickey Walker-Benny Leonard-Bob Olin-Gus Lesnivich, a Bob Olin restaurant menu signed by Olin-Cooper-Lou Zara and 30+ others, and a signed Homer Patrick 5x7 photo, to name just a few.

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