Joe Lewis vs Max Schmeling Boxing, “The Champion” Tin Toy *SOLD*

Joe Lewis vs Max Schmeling Boxing “The Champion” Tin Toy For Sale

Goso
Germany
1930’s
Cable Operated

8″ L x 3.5″ W x 5.75″ H

Our historic tin lithograph toy works great by using thumb control pressure. These toys fight!

Note that both figures are articulated at the feet, waist, arms and heads!  Kids could actually knock an opponent over with a well placed punch to the head!

This was produced after either the historic and famous 1936 or the 1938 World Heavyweight Championship Boxing fight between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling!

Louis vs Schmeling

Yankee Stadium, Bronx, NY, USA
Date June 19, 1936 and June 22, 1938

Title(s) on the line World Heavyweight Championship (2nd fight)

United States- Joe Louis

Nickname Brown Bomber

27–1 (23 KOs)

Germany- Max Schmeling

Black Uhlan of the Rhine 48–7–4 (34 KOs)

Hometown Detroit, Michigan Klein Luckow, Brandenburg

Wiki–“Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling refers to two separate fights between the two which are among boxing’s most talked about bouts. Schmeling won the first match by a knockout in round twelve, but in the second match, Louis won through a knockout in the first round. Although the two champions met to create a pugilistic spectacle remarkable on its own terms, the two fights came to embody the broader political and social conflict of the times. As the most significant African American athlete of his age and the most significant African-American boxer since Jack Johnson, Louis was a focal point for African American pride in the 1930s. Moreover, as a contest between representatives of the United States and Nazi Germany during the 1930s, the fights came to symbolize the struggle between democracy and nazism. Louis’ performance in the bouts made him one of the first true African American national heroes in the United States.”

FYI, the owners of Goso are Christian Gotz and Konrad Sohn– GoSo of Germany.