Auction Date:2011 Feb 09 @ 19:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
DS, signed “Primo Carnera,” one page both sides, 8.5 x 13, January 3, 1957. Application form for the California State Athletic Commission for Carnera’s wrestling license, filled out in another hand, with the reverse bearing his immense left and right thumb prints along with a smudged example. Punch and staple holes to top edge, several notations and stamps, light creasing and wrinkling, and show-through from his frighteningly large fingerprint on the reverse, otherwise fine condition.
In 1957, the year of this application, Carnera beat King Kong to claim wrestling's world heavyweight championship and become the first—and thus far only man—to win both boxing's and wrestling's world heavyweight titles. Carnera, who stood 6-foot-5 and weighed 265 pounds, had hands that one observer, upon meeting the legend, said were like trying to hold a ham. His unforgettable grasp enveloped a man’s hand in the same manner that a ‘normal’ adult would hold an infant’s hand. A hint of those physical attributes are well pronounced via the rolled prints on this document from Carnera’s championship year.
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