New York boxer Valentine Braunheim (1891-1948) perhaps best known for his bouts with lightweight champion Ad Wolgast. Vintage pearl-finish 4.75 x 6.75 full-length photo of boxer Knockout Brown by the Apeda Studio of New York, signed and inscribed in the upper and lower borders in fountain pen, "K. O. Brown, to my pal, Ike Morgan.” In very good to fine condition, with faint silvering and creasing, and a short tear to the left edge.
According to Barry Deskins of the International Boxing Research Organization: ‘Knockout Brown was certainly a character to remember. He was short, pudgy, and pigeon-toed. Blond hair covered his head and he had a cowlick across his forehead, and supposedly he was cross-eyed. Fans and opponents alike would roar with laughter upon first glance, but after a bout had started cheers accompanied the laughter because Brown could really fight…well! His appearance may have boosted an opponent's confidence before the bell rang, but that confidence was often short-lived after they got a taste of the dynamite that Brown carried in either fist.’
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