[Commemorative Boxing silk] Pedlar Palmer, who beat Billy Plimmer, at the National Sporting Club for the Bantam Weight Championship of the World and £800, Dec. 12th 1898

1898

Silk scarf, centred with a portrait of Pedlar Palmer and descriptive text, the corners with the flowers of Scotland, Ireland and Wales, with blue border.

850 by 850mm (33½ by 33½ inches).
NB. this item is Unframed - framed image shown in room setting is for reference only

Pedlar Palmer, born Thomas Palmer, [1876 – 13 February 1949]

On 1st May 1893, aged just 17, he took on Walter Croot at the National Sporting Club for the “100lb Championship of the World” and won with a knock out in the seventeenth round after outclassing his opponent. Four weeks later to the day he beat Mike Small in six rounds on points to retain that title. On the 15th October 1894 ‘Pedlar’ beat Ernie Stanton over twenty rounds in a fight billed as the “British 7st 10lbs Bantamweight title”.

A year later he retained that title by beating Billy Plimmer with a disqualification in the fourteenth found. ‘Pedlar’ Palmer became Bantamweight Champion of the World on 12th October 1896 when he beat Johnny Murphy over twenty rounds at the National Sporting Club in London’s Covent Garden. After successfully defending his World title against Ernie Stanton and the American Dave Sullivan in 1897, and Billy Plimmer in 1898, he went on to beat the American Billy Rotchford in April 1899.

Billy Plimmer, [1869-1929]

During his career, Plimmer won the Bantamweight Championship of the World, Great Britain and England: He defeated such men as George Dixon, Tommy ‘Spider’ Kelly, Johnny Murphy, Elwood McCloskey, Michael ‘Chappie’ Moran, John Van Heest, Charley Kelly, George Corfield, Billy Willis, Arthur Westley, Jem Stevens, Joe McGrath and Maxie Haugh.

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