Three promotional clay pipes for an unrealised fight between John Sullivan and Jem Smith, with moulded relief portraits of the boxers on the bowl, decorated with a vine motif, two with yellow stems and one with red stem, 13cm long, c. 1887. ***Although Sullivan had traveled from the US, in his own words he was 'blackguarded' out of the fight.Provenance:From the Boxing Collection of Pierre and Anna Spake.