Boxing broadsidesGreat fight between Tom Sayers and Benjamin! For the championship & £400, [Bod7157; Roud V9712], Bill Benjamin (aka William Bainge) fought Sayers as a relative novice and lost in only 3 rounds, large repaired tear affecting image, 25 x 19cm, printed and published at Such's Song Mart, [1858]; [with] ‘Costermonger’s many scenes. My Grandad was a boxer…’, Birmingham, Printed by T. King and sold by Mr Green, at his music stall, near the Turnpike, City Road, single sheet printed in two columns, 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾ inches), [1820s] (2)***Second item: recounts the life of a costermonger, with the opening scenes describing his father killing his grandfather in a boxing fight and being tried for murder, but having only to spend one year in hard labour at Newgate prison.Provenance:From the Boxing Collection of Pierre and Anna Spake.