bareknuckle

That's one hell of a belt. Awesome. I wonder where it is now...

Would someone want to see this if they were searching the tag - jewelry? Should a jewelry tag be added?

This belt is in a musuem in New York

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Wells_(boxer) If you read the belt it says "lightweight" champion, not welterweight. So this is 1911 NOT 1914. Twenty-round Fight. Matt Wells Lightweight Champion Of Great Britain. Montreal Gazette on Feb 28, 1911 London February Matt Wells won a twenty round fight tonight from Fred. Welsh for the lightweight championship of great Britain and the Lonsdale belt

More about one of Bostonian D. Deshler's boxing bouts here: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9900E3D71731E233A...

And more about one of Brooklyn's M. Baldwin's boxing bouts here: query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C00EFD61539E433A...

I like how a hundred years ago they were able to tag their photos with so much information. And you didn't need $1500 worth of computer gear to see it.

Well, these were "news" photos, so the photos were taken by photo journalists who understood the importance of documentation.

Great documentation.

Joe Mandot was a Los Angeles-based featherweight boxer in the 1910s and 1920s: www.boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=229207 &cat=boxer There are at least two other photos of Mandot in the collection so far.

I started a biography in Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Mandot

I found his World War I draft registration:

This is the New Orleans boxer. He was my great uncle and i have the original photos

Uncle Joe😌 from New Orleans not the one from Los Angelel.