Great Lion Show Product:Fine art poster c1482-1486

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British Heavyweight Champion Joe Bugner seen here outside the Las Vegas Convention Centre where he will fight Muhammad Ali

preceded by Edward Thurlow

Princess Swan

2nd January 1961

Great Lion Show Product:Fine art poster c1482-1486'Great Lion Show', 1868. Sir Robert Napier is shown standing on the right of this cartoon. He had recently fought a victorious campaign in Abyssinia against King Theodore which had resulted in the British captives held by the King being freed. The decisive battle had been fought at Magdala and, upon his return home, Sir Robert was created Lord Napier of Magdala and given a pension of two thousand pounds per annum. The one shilling must be a reference