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Etching Boxer E. Baldwin Rare 1829 #1816079

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Etching Boxer E. Baldwin  Rare 1829  #1816079
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Rare Sporting Picture 1829</em></td>
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This is a very rare and historical etching of the boxer Edwin Baldwin. Baldwin is very fit and quite muscular! He is dressed in boxing garb from the period with a decorative orange, green and yellow cloth belt. Below Baldwin it reads ? E. Baldwin known as White-headed Bob; born in 1800 at Ludlow in Shropshire - stands 5ft 1in weighs 13 stone. Pub April 1829 by S.W. Fores 41 Piccadilly. On the bottom left hand corner it is signed ? Tom Jones fec - with a side ways J. I found the following information on ?white-headed bob? - His name was Edwin Baldwin and he was a friend of the famous boxer Tom Spring (1795-1851). In some documentation on Spring I found that ? Tom Spring seconded a native of Ludlow, Edwin Baldwin, known as 'White Headed Bob' at his fight with teenage Ned Neale at Virginia Water, Surrey on October 19th 1824. Disappointingly for the men from the Marshes, victory was not with them that day. I was also able to find a poem by Richard Harris Barham entitled Black Mousquetaire: A Legend of France which was written in 1830. In the poem Barham mentions a boxer called ?White-Headed Bob.? An excerpt from that poem is as follows:

?Called 'White-headed Bob,'
Whom I once saw receive such a thump on the 'nob'
From a fist which might almost an elephant brain,
That I really believed, at the first, he was slain,
For he lay like a log on his back on the plain,
Till a gentleman present accustomed to train,
Drew out a small lancet, and open'd a vein
Just below his ...
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<tr><td>Condition:good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1829</td></tr>






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<tr><td>Location:Northport Maine 04849</td></tr>
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