Lot 1232
Boxing - Collection of 4 Autographs, Max Baer (Written Note), Sugar Ray Leonard, Jake La Motta and Moon Mullins. Collection of 4 autographs of US boxers signed on a variety of items. Max Baer, a nicely inscribed note to "The little Champ sending loads of hugs and kisses and a thank you for a letter" signed "Max" on the inside blank page of a Christmas card which has printed under the holiday greeting, "Mary, Max and Max II", a nicely signed card by Sugar Ray Leonard, a signed 8" x 10" black and white photo while young of Jake La Motta, immortalized in the Martin Scorsese film Raging Bull signed "Jake La Motta Raging Bull" and finally a very unusual and rare original vintage photo 5" x 8" addressed to the actress Anne Rutherford (Gone With The Wind) by a boxer named Moon Mullins. Mullins, born Michael O'Connor co-opted the name Mullins for his boxing career which was short lived. Years later long after the boxing gig faded and assorted jobs, he turned to crime then murderered a man and found himself on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list and subsequently arrested in the early 1960's.
Estimated Value $250 - 400.
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