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1910 T218 Jack Johnson 🥊 Front Facing & Side Facing Variations
Jack Johnson is one of the greatest World Heavyweight Champions of all-time and the first African-American to hold the title.
These cards are well over 100 years old and the artwork is amazing.
Jack Johnson had two cards in the iconic T218 Champions set, pictured here.
The front facing variation is significantly more scarce than the side facing variation.

1926 Exhibit, Harry Greb 🥊
I can't get enough of the historical aspects and the beautiful black & white portraits of boxings early heroes like this one of Harry Greb.
By the early 19th century, boxing had become one of, if not the most popular spectator sport, in America, especially in urban areas..

Boxing helped shape the professional sports model in America.

1921 Exhibits Boxing Cards, Joe Jeanette 🥊
Joe Jeanette was one of the greatest heavyweights never to hold a world title, renowned for his relentless toughness, iron chin, and technical skill.
Jeanette is a Hall of Famer and one of the boxers others avoided in the very best of boxing’s hardest era.

1910 T220, Champions, Joe Gans 🥊 World Lightweight Champion
Joe Gans was the first African-American to win a world boxing title in the 20th century. He held the World Lightweight Championship from 1902 to 1908 and was elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame.
Even 115 years later, this card is still visually striking, not dull or washed out.
1910 T220 boxing cards are particularly stunning because their rich lithography, vivid backgrounds, elegant portrait poses, and historically important fighters combine to create some of the most artistically beautiful early sports cards ever printed.
I prefer T220 Champions over most other tobacco boxing cards of that era.