BOXING -- A two-handled silver trophy cup by John Newton Mappin, inscribed: Amateur Boxing Association - Capt. W. Edgeworth-Johnstone - Heavy Weight Champion 1896, hallmarked London 1895, 11 in. high, 32.25 oz.; Hard Hitting (Captain Edgeworth-Johnstone), chromolithograph by Spy from Vanity Fair, 1896, (spotted, creased with small tear to image), 15½ x 10½in., framed and glazed. With a copy of W. Edgeworth-Johnstone's Boxing, [1906]. (3)

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BOXING -- A two-handled silver trophy cup by John Newton Mappin, inscribed: Amateur Boxing Association - Capt. W. Edgeworth-Johnstone - Heavy Weight Champion 1896, hallmarked London 1895, 11 in. high, 32.25 oz.; Hard Hitting (Captain Edgeworth-Johnstone), chromolithograph by Spy from Vanity Fair, 1896, (spotted, creased with small tear to image), 15½ x 10½in., framed and glazed. With a copy of W. Edgeworth-Johnstone's Boxing, [1906]. (3)

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Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Walter Edgeworth-Johnstone (1863-1936) was amateur heavy-weight champion of Ireland in 1885, heavy-weight champion of the Army in 1894 and amateur heavy-weight champion of England in 1895 and 1896.

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