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Lot # 236: 1920's Gene Tunney, "Fighting Marine Hopes for a Title Shot" Huge Portrait Photo

Category: Boxing

Starting Bid: $25.00

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Item was in Auction "December Collectors Auction 2020",
which ran from 12/9/2020 3:00 PM to
12/26/2020 8:00 PM



Large die cut double weight portrait photograph of Heavyweight contender Gene Tunney as he hoped to get a shot from the champ, Jack Dempsey. Taken in the early 1920's, this work of newspaper art was executed and published around 1926-27. One of his largest and finest images on the planet and offered here for the first time ever, fresh out of a newspaper archive.

Size: 5.75x10.25
Designation: Vintage 1
Condition: 4.5/5
Quality: 5/5
Overall Grade: 9.5/10

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