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27 Autographs of Boxers, Wrestlers and Related Personalities Including Schmeling.
Lot 252. 27 Autographs of Boxers, Wrestlers and Related Personalities Including Schmeling. Max Schmeling signed an 8” x 10” b&w photo, as did Carmen Basilio (personalized), Joey Giardello (pers.), Peter McNelly, Armando Muniz (2), “Dangerous” Dana Rosenblatt (color) and Chuck Wepner. Eight more boxer autographs are on 3 ½” x 5” and 4” x 6” b&w photos: Basilio (4, all back signed), Emile Griffith, Thomas Hitman Hearns, Ernie Terrill (signed on the back of a photo that shows him covering up against Ali) and Wepner. Two more are on index cards, Sugar Ray Leonard and Gene Fullmer. These autographs are 9s and 10s. The other boxing-related autographs are by Ferdie Pacheco, known as the “Fight Doctor” (printed his name and traced over “Ferdie’). Ryan O’Neal posed as a boxer, and promoter Bob Arum (one pers., one not). In the personalized photo, Arum is with Ali. The Pecheco and O’Neal photos are 8” x 10”, and the others 4” x 6”. The O’Neal and Arum signatures grade 9s and 10s. The wrestling signatures on 8” x 10” color photos: Killer Kowalski, Ivan Koloff (pers. and traced over), Terri Runnels (2) and Lou Theoz. The Kowalski and Runnels signatures are 10s, and the Theoz signature in nm 7 to nm-m 8. Authenticated by Kevin Keating.
Winning Bid $60.
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