Lot 301
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TONY MUNDINE 1973, Commonwealth Middle Weight Champioship Boxing trophy, won by the 22 - year old Mundine defending his title, double scroll handled cone-shaped silver plate vase knopped waist and spreading circular foot, engraved 'Commonwealth Middle Weight Championship held Festival Hall Brisbane 28.9.73 winner Tony Mundine, presented by Gazebo Terrace Hotel', height 31 cm, bakelite stand; Award presented to Tony Mundine 'in appreciation of his services to Australian Boxing, from the professional Boxing Association, Australia International, 11th November 1983', to the design of an engraved scroll within a display case surmounted by the gilt metallized figure of a boxer within four columns and a cup-shaped metallized finial, height 74cm
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TONY MUNDINE 1973, Commonwealth Middle Weight Champioship Boxing trophy, won by the 22 - year old Mundine defending his title, double scroll handled cone-shaped silver plate vase knopped waist and spreading circular foot, engraved 'Commonwealth Middle Weight Championship held Festival Hall Brisbane 28.9.73 winner Tony Mundine, presented by Gazebo Terrace Hotel', height 31 cm, bakelite stand; Award presented to Tony Mundine 'in appreciation of his services to Australian Boxing, from the professional Boxing Association, Australia International, 11th November 1983', to the design of an engraved scroll within a display case surmounted by the gilt metallized figure of a boxer within four columns and a cup-shaped metallized finial, height 74cm

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TONY MUNDINE 1973, Commonwealth Middle Weight Champioship Boxing trophy, won by the 22 - year old Mundine defending his title, double scroll handled cone-shaped silver plate vase knopped waist and spreading circular foot, engraved 'Commonwealth Middle Weight Championship held Festival Hall Brisbane 28.9.73 winner Tony Mundine, presented by Gazebo Terrace Hotel', height 31 cm, bakelite stand; Award presented to Tony Mundine 'in appreciation of his services to Australian Boxing, from the professional Boxing Association, Australia International, 11th November 1983', to the design of an engraved scroll within a display case surmounted by the gilt metallized figure of a boxer within four columns and a cup-shaped metallized finial, height 74cm

A hard-hitting aboriginal from Baryulgil near Grafton in northern New South Wales, Mundine won the Commonwealth Middle Weight championship in 1972 at the age of 21
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