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THB[CIGARETTE CARDS]. JOHNSON, Jack (1878-1946). A Pair of Rar...
Lot 617
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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. Prices Realized Potter & Potter Auctions info@potterauctions.com
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. Prices Realized Potter & Potter Auctions info@potterauctions.com
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[CIGARETTE CARDS]. JOHNSON, Jack (1878-1946). A Pair of Rare Cigarette Cards Featuring Heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson. [New York: Mecca Cigarettes and Hassan Cork Tip Cigarettes, ca. 1910]. Cards with color portraits of Johnson on the front (two different action poses), with descriptive text on versos. Both approximately 2 ? x 3?. Some mild rubbing, Hassan card with faint creasing to upper right corner. Excellent and rare (ungraded). Johnson, nicknamed ?The Galveston Giant,? was a legendary boxer and the first African-American to claim the Heavyweight Championship. He had a total of 95 fights, with 72 wins (38 by K.O.), 11 losses, and 11 draws. He famously beat former champion James J. Jeffries (1875-1953) in the racially-charged ?Fight of the Century? in Reno, NV (Jeffries, ?The Great White Hope,? initiated the fight in order to prove the so-called superiority of the ?White Race;? Johnson beat him so badly, that even Jeffries acknowledged the prowess and power of Johnson).
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