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Caractacus wrote: the screen would turn blue
every two seconds and I would have to keep switching the channel
just trying to watch it and my wrist got so tired.

Yep, I get that problem watching the RedHot freeviews too

I remember the Craig Long post well. I posted about it on ESB.

evrenb wrote: ↑16 Apr 2015, 19:44

mikeycapp wrote:Hello Evren,

I am not sure how to get in contact with Fosco's family I heard this through another party, however I can bet they are at the same address which is where interested parties with the money to barter for the collection can probably get a list of what Fosco had. Supposedly they are asking $250,000 for the entire collection and I am told they will not sell peace meal it is the entire collection or nothing!
Sincerely

Mikey Capp

Thanks Mikey

What's the news with Sal??

Evren

Did the police Cappo sell the collection? I just realized this thread started years ago.

mikeycapp wrote: ↑17 Apr 2015, 22:11

mikeycapp wrote:Hello Evren,

I am not sure how to get in contact with Fosco's family I heard this through another party, however I can bet they are at the same address which is where interested parties with the money to barter for the collection can probably get a list of what Fosco had. Supposedly they are asking $250,000 for the entire collection and I am told they will not sell piece meal it is the entire collection or nothing!
Sincerely

Mikey Capp

Does anyone know what became of Tony's collection? He and I traded with each other in the early 1990s, when I was an avid collector.

Ah yes, the late captain Tony Fosco collection. Can someone post a list of what he had?

When I knew him in the early 1990s, the late Neil Terens, who died in February, was single and living in Brooklyn. Neil had a great collection of boxing films, with a focus on the 1950s and 1960s and obtained from Jim Jacobs, and some terrific VHS tapes, also from 1950s bouts, that he got through me via the late Philadelphia Eagle Pete Retzlaff, who, at the time, owned the Telesports Digest archive. Neil had some very rare stuff, Gene "Ace" Armstrong and Johnny Persol bouts, for example. Does anyone know what happened to Neil's collection?

pound per pound wrote: ↑02 May 2023, 15:16 Ah yes, the late captain Tony Fosco collection. Can someone post a list of what he had?

Tony collected everything that he could. He particularly liked films of boxing from the early 20th century, and he had material from bouts held in Chicago in the 1950s. When I knew him, he prioritized collecting films rather that videotapes, and he liked to get kinescopes, too. He was a very aggressive collector with a big range of contacts and had really a lot of material.

DavidKehler wrote: ↑03 May 2023, 04:04

pound per pound wrote: ↑02 May 2023, 15:16 Ah yes, the late captain Tony Fosco collection. Can someone post a list of what he had?

Tony collected everything that he could. He particularly liked films of boxing from the early 20th century, and he had material from bouts held in Chicago in the 1950s. When I knew him, he prioritized collecting films rather that videotapes, and he liked to get kinescopes, too. He was a very aggressive collector with a big range of contacts and had really a lot of material.

Thanks Dave. Can a list of the films that his family sold or that he owned be posted here. Who was the winning bid?

The late Luckett Davis who some know here left his entire collection to the public. It is massive! He was a chief research guy in boxing, maybe the best of his time.

Nick Beck, a childhood friend of Jim Jacobs, had a significant collection. He lived in Los Angeles, and he passed away in 2017. Does anyone know what became of his collection?

Steve Lott, who had a significant collection and had worked with Jim Jacobs, died in Las Vegas in 2021. Does anyone know what became of his collection? It is not at the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame, which he once led.

Shame that nobody has any info. I would love to know what these guys had.

J. J. Johnston, a major collector who lived in Chicago, died in November. Does anyone know what happened to his significant collection? He was a close pal of the late Tony Fosco's, and, in the early 1990s, I traded with both of them, working through Tony. Of particular significance was J. J.'s relationship with the UCLA archive. J. J. was an actor (he once appeared on Broadway in a two-man show with Al Pacino), and he was able to get copies of at least a few rarities from UCLA.

DavidKehler wrote: ↑18 Jul 2023, 12:22 J. J. Johnston, a major collector who lived in Chicago, died in November. Does anyone know what happened to his significant collection? He was a close pal of the late Tony Fosco's, and, in the early 1990s, I traded with both of them, working through Tony. Of particular significance was J. J.'s relationship with the UCLA archive. J. J. was an actor (he once appeared on Broadway in a two-man show with Al Pacino), and he was able to get copies of at least a few rarities from UCLA.

It sounds like a conspiracy of recently deceased old fight collectors. J.J Johnson is dead, Steve Compton is dead, and Tony Fusco dead.

Which leads me to the question, who is the greatest living fight collector?

I didnt know I was dead

klompton wrote: ↑20 Jul 2023, 08:29 I didnt know I was dead

Hilarious

Are any of the Zivic-Armstrong bouts on film ?