Lot # 1420: 1934-2004 Boxing Legends Signed Check Collection (7) with Nat Fleischer

20th Century boxing greats are brought together, with this selection of (7) signed checks. Headliner Nat Fleischer (d.1972) is best known for founding The Ring magazine in 1922. Joining Fleischer in this offering are a quintet of popular champions, and a famous 1950s wife, who returned to prominence in 1981 after appearing in a Playboy spread at the age of 51. These vintage checks show light to moderate wear unless noted, and the signatures are all pleasing examples.

Featured are:

9/20/34 Nat Fleischer All-America Periodicals Inc. business check drawn on the Manufacturers Trust Company of New York, has a 1/4" square of loss on the top edge. Fleischer has signed at bottom-right on the front. He has made the check to himself, and he has also endorsed it on the back.

5/10/56 Jake LaMotta Inc. business check drawn on the Bank of Miami Beach, is signed by LaMotta on the front, and by the payee Harry Rogers on the back.

11/6/80 Carmen Basilio personal check drawn on the Key Bank of Central New York made to cash, is signed by Basilio on the front and back.

2/3/88 Vikki LaMotta personal check drawn on the Chemical Bank of New York, is signed by LaMotta on the front.

12/11/92 Lou Ambers personal check drawn on the Valley National Bank of America of Phoenix, is signed by Ambers on the front.

2/3/93 Billy Conn personal check drawn on the Pittsburgh National Bank, is signed by Conn on the front.

9/25/04 Emile Griffith personal check drawn on The Bank of New York, is signed by Griffith on the front, and by payee Dr. D. Selwyn on the back.

Auction LOA from James Spence/JSA.