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Wrestling Card & Scrapbook Collection [Sport]

c1940s. Fifty (50) vintage silver gelatin photographs and two process screen prints, most in postcard format, laid down in a scrapbook, 31 of the photographs are autographed in ink by wrestlers, most annotated with their name by “Fred Phillips”, compiler of the scrapbook, 9.1 x 5.3cm to 22.8 x 18.1cm (photographs). Slight scuffing, silvering and creases overall.

Compiled in Australia, one of the scrapbooks contains photographs of International and Australian wrestlers, including Chief Little Wolf, Arjan Das, Dick Raines, Danny Dusek, Pat Fraley, Jack Claybourne, Leo Jensen, Pat Meehan, Ken Hawthorn, Dutch Hefner, Rudy La Llitze, Ray Murdoch, Peter Guion, Seelie Samara, Sammy Stein, Roy Heffernan, Al Costello, Sandor Szabo, Fred Atkins, Marvin James, George Pencheff, Tom Lurich and Gino Vagnone. A second scrapbook, containing newspaper clippings relating to wrestling, includes a typed and signed letter from Australian champion Roy Heffernan.

also includes an autograph book with eight autographs by wrestlers including Tom Lurich, Arjan Das, Leo Jensen, Al Costello and Dutch Hefner.

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Item #CL199-113

Price (AUD): $3,300.00  other currencies