Raynor HCA 2014-01
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/30/2014
Original issue of Harper’s Weekly May 5, 1860, 16pp., 11” x 16,” complete, filled with news and wood-cut engravings. From the centerspread, “Bloody, Brutal, and Blackguard Prize-Fight in England, Between Heenan and Sayers, On April 17, 1860,” with an accompanying story. Disbound, VG. On April 17, 1860 an illegal bare-knuckle fight took place in a field at the back of the Ship Inn in Farnborough, Hampshire, on the Surrey-Hampshire border. Prize fighting at the time being illegal. The fight lasted two hours and 27 minutes, 42 rounds, resulting a draw.
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