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2024 SPRING PREMIER AUCTION

Wed, Mar 27, 2024 08:00PM EDT - Sun, Apr 14, 2024 07:50AM EDT
Lot 475

Scarce 1962 Cassius Clay Jr. & Cassius Clay Sr. Original Photograph PSA/DNA Type 1

Unsold

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Before he was Muhammad Ali, he was Cassius Clay, Jr. Clay Sr. was a sign painter and musician and sometime referred to by his son as “the best dancer in Louisville. It is sometimes opined that Alis trademark footwork was inherited from his father. Although Cassius Sr. lived until 1990, this is the only known period Type 1 photo of father and son together. The photo carries a date on the back of “12/6/62 which puts this just after Clays TKO defeat of Archie Moore. Now 16-0, Cassius Clay was the leading up and coming heavyweight in the world and just a little over a year away from beating Sonny Liston for the crown. This image depicts Clay and his father, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Sr., going through a pile of fan letters in his Louisville home. The photo shows some surface abrasions and a slight soft crease in the center of the bottom border. The reverse has the World Wide Photos stamp and the original caption slug affixed. A great early image of “The Greatestand his father, and the only Type 1 depicting the pair. The photograph measures 7 x 9 and has been encapsulated and graded a Type 1 by PSA.

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