"MAHER/FITZSIMMONS" CELLULOID COVERED RARE 1896 LAPEL STUD BY PETTIBONE, CINCINNATI.
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.75" with tin rim holding clear celluloid sheet over printed paper illustration of them in a boxing ring fighting bare-handed. Fitzsimmons won in round 1. This could be the first ever use of celluloid in the construction of a boxing event souvenir. The Fitzsimmons-Maher Prizefight (February 21, 1896), also considered, unofficially, as the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship. This famous match occurred on a sandbar in the Rio Grande River just far enough outside of Langtry, Texas, a state in which boxing was illegal, to be considered technically in the Mexican state of Coahuila de Zaragoza. There is a very shallow .25" hairline indent line on the cello surface that will catch reflected light but which is so tiny as to be near invisible. One seen. Exc. Paul Muchinsky Collection Book Example.
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