Bareknucklefighters.com will show highlights from my collection (prizefighting from the early years to 1860) and offer for sale a host of items - including duplicates from my collection and items outside its scope, which I hope other collectors and fans of the prize ring will enjoy.
I hope you will be patient as we launch this site and allow for some teething problems!
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Product of the Fortnight:
The Milling Match Between Decks, 1812
by William Elmes,published by Thomas Tegg
hand-coloured etching and engraving 340 x 241mm
Two sailors are seated astride a long chest, inscribed 'Arm Chest GR.', to which they are lashed, with other sailors looking on. Behind the white pugilist stands a buxom woman clasping a bottle saying: 'Now Jack—Brail up his Peepers or Mungo —will tip you Yankey-dodle-do.' In the background a sailor dances with two women; he says: 'I love a bit of hop—Life is ne'ar the worse for it. When in my way do drop—a Fiddle—thats your sort.' Lettered with title and production details: 'Price one Shilling Coloured / London Pubd by Thos Tegg—111 Cheapside'.
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