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Lot 19
[AFRICAN AMERICANA] -- [SPORTS]. Jeffries Championship Souvenir Playing Cards. Los Angeles, CA: W.P. Jeffries Co., 1909. 
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$400 - 600
Price Realized
$563
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Lot Description
[AFRICAN AMERICANA] -- [SPORTS]. Jeffries Championship Souvenir Playing Cards. Los Angeles, CA: W.P. Jeffries Co., 1909. 

Complete set of Jeffries Championship Souvenir Playing Cards with printed boxing images housed in original box (cards with soiling and wear to edges and corners; all but front panel of exterior box missing, inner box present). 

Each card verso bears the bust portrait of James J. Jeffries. Card rectos feature portraits of boxers and boxing scenes captioned beneath images, including "Johnson - Mc.Vey, 'Fighting Tar Babies;'" "Nelson - Gans, 'The Golfield Argument;'" "Neil - Tenny, 'Ended in a Tragedy;'" "Welsh - Attell, 'The Battle of the Champions;'" and "Mc.Farland - Britt, 'Defeat for the Native Son,'" and many more. Boxer portraits include Stanley Ketchel, John L. Sullivan, Jack Dempsey, Abe Attell, Tommy Burns, James J. Corbett, and others. 

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