Jack Dempsey
World Heavyweight Champion 1919-1926

 

 

WILLIAM HARRISON DEMPSEY
b. June 24, 1895
d. May 31, 1983

 
WON
61		 LOST
6		 DRAWS
8		 KO'S
50
 

World heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey has nicely signed and inscribed this vintage photo... The image is by Apeda and it shows a young Dempsey in the prime of his career... A perfectly clear photo vintage signed in dark blue fountain pen ink!!

measures: 7 x 9"
condition: photo appears to have been slightly trimmed, will mat nicely

sold

 

A FLAME OF PURE FIRE

    For seven years and two months in the days that followed World War I, Jack Dempsey, with his swarthy brow, his fierce good looks, and his matchless dedication to the kill, was heavyweight champion of the world. He was the wild and raucous champion of the wild and raucous 1920's, when Al Capone ran free, jazzmen trumpeted a new night music, women smoked cigarettes in public, and people talked about free love but couldn't buy a legal drink.


Roger Kahn
 
 
 

 

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