The truth is within and only you can reveal it 04 May 2016 06:43:12pm
re: Who's Autograph
One has to wonder why in the world they would autograph a first day cover that was issued nearly 30 years before. Seems very unlikely that someone would be carrying that cover when they ran in to them. For the record, there was a boxer by the name of Nathan Rosenberg who died in 1906 after being knocked out in the ring.
Los Angeles Times, January 19, 1906. -- was a scheduled 3-rounder at George Macfadden's club. Rosenberg was hit hard over the heart, and carried to the dressing room. There, he was discovered to be dead, and the crowd (and [opponent] Kid Sis) promptly left.
It was in the 2nd round of Rosenberg's 1st fight of his career.
In 1975, I had dinner with Patterson. Even then, a little over 30 years before his death from Altzheimer's, he was not able to carry much of a conversation, and his memory was spotty.
I did a quick search through his online biography to see if the date on the cover had any significance, but could not find anything.
"I did a quick search through his online biography to see if the date on the cover had any significance, but could not find anything."
I tried to find some significance also. The closest I could come was the year 1952 being the year FP won the gold medal at the Olympics, but that occurred after June.
The only scenario I can work out is that a stamp collector who was also a boxing fan picked up that cover because of the name on it, even if it wasn't THAT NR, and thought it would be cool to add the boxers' signatures.
Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy.. 06 May 2016 12:12:19pm
re: Who's Autograph
That is like a cover I have addressed to Grace Kelly. No, not that Grace Kelly, it was to someplace in New Jersey or New York, but I couldn't let it slip past me.
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Re....Alan Minter.
FLoyd Patterson dated his autograph a month before Minter fought a title fight in Las Vegas, Nevada.
So Id speculate that he was training/acclimatising in USA when he signed the cover.
