Printed in Stockholm, Sweden, this beautifully produced 9 ½ inch long by 7 ¼ inch wide album is on white card stock with a blue graphic of a boxer pictured on the front, and the words “Czeslaw Slania” across the top of the front cover drawing in gray, stylized letters. The bottom of the cover reads “World’s Heavyweight Boxing Champions” also in gray, stylized letters. The back cover has the words “Slania Graphic Box 40177 Stockholm 40 Sweden” in gray letters, all in caps, across the bottom.

     Inside the album across two pages in brown card stock are 23 colorful stamps of every heavyweight boxing champion from John L. Sullivan in 1889 through Cassius Clay in 1964. Each stamp features a different line drawing “head shot” of the boxer with his gloves raised (or in Sullivan’s case, just his hands!), and each stamp has a color tone over the image with a white border. Each boxer’s name is across the top of each stamp, while the year they won the title is across the bottom along with their country – for example, “Floyd Patterson, USA, 1960.” Each stamp is “pasted” inside a black line border, and there is a blank space with the number “24” left at the end of the album after Clay’s stamp. Beneath each stamp is printed each boxer’s date and place of birth, height, weight, how they won the title and who they beat. This item comes with a LOA from Jim Dundee.

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