Set Reminder2024-03-07 12:00:002024-03-07 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Ephemera, Americana, & Historical Memorabilia https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/ephemera-americana-historical-memorabilia-21911 We are pleased to announce our March 2024 Ephemera auction, featuring the collection of Mark Rucker. Photographs, trade cards, souvenir advertising fans, baseball memorabilia, and a kaleidoscopic range of printed paper ephemera of all kinds will cross the auction block.
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[CIGARETTE CARDS]. A Complete Set of All 50 ?Champion Athlete and Prize Fighter Series? Cards that Feature Boxers by Mecca Cigarettes. [New York: Mecca Cigarettes, ca. 1910]. Cards with color portraits of athletes on fronts, descriptive text on versos. Approximately 2 ? x 2 ??. Some rubbing, occasional light wear or scuffing, occasional creasing, a few short tears, soiling. Very good (all ungraded). Some boxers include: John L. Sullivan and Jake Kilrain fighting, John L. Sullivan (solo), Joe Gans (African-American World Champion) George Dixon (African-American World Champion), Peter Jackson (African-American), Jack Dempsey (World?s Champion), Jack Goodman, Frankie Madden, Charlie Mitchell (World?s Champion - card quite creased), Johnny Frayne, Fight Between James L. Jeffries and Tom Sharkey, Bob Fitzsimmons (World?s Champion), John C. Heenan (World?s Champion), Billy Edwards (World?s Champion) and many more.