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Randy Turpin

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Randy Turpin

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Auction Date:2011 Aug 10 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : 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
Troubled British boxer (1928-1966) who took the middleweight title from Sugar Ray Robinson in 1951 (then lost it two months later in a rematch). After a steady decline in his career and finances, Turpin shot his seventeen-month daughter, Carmen, and himself, in 1966. Carmen survived. Ballpoint signature, penned during his two month reign as champion, “Best wishes, yours in sport, Randy Turpin, 1951,” on an off-white 5.5 x 3.25 government postcard, postmarked August 30, 1951. In very good condition, with faint postal cancellations at upper portion, scattered light soiling and adhesive remnants, and light creasing from mounting.