[Pearlware jug decorated with transfer image of Tom Molineux and Tom Cribb facing each other in a boxing match, a verse to the other side.]

£2,750 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

A rare and attractive souvenir of a championship boxing match, considered to be one of the greatest sporting events of the nineteenth century, and the earliest recorded instance of an American boxer competing for an international title. The two challengers were Tom Cribb (1781-1848) a coal porter from Wapping, widely v

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