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Lot 228

Sale 5024 - Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Jan 31, 2019 5:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$800 - 1,200
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$938
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[Boxing] Jeffries, James J., and Thomas Sharkey Signed contract (4)

November 15, 1900. 1 1/4 pp. on 2 folio sheets. Legal document contracting James J. Jeffries and Thomas Sharkey to engage in a contest for the heavyweight boxing championship of the world on or before July 1st, 1901. The document is also signed by Bernard Reich for Thomas Sharkey. The contest did not take place. This lot also contains 2 copies of a one page folio typed document of July 8, 1900, contracting Thomas Sharkey & H. Lundin to engage in a Wrestling Match, signed by representatives of Sharkey and Lundin. And the lot also contains a one page typed 4to document of July 20, 1901, contracting Tom Sharkey and Tom Jenkins to engage in a wrestling match unde the auspices of Thomas Scanlon. Signed by Scanlon and by the representatives of Sharkey and Jenkins.

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