Vintage Posters

c.1950 Small sports poster with photograph of light heavyweight champion Joey Maxim eating a watermelon. "Giuseppe Antonio Berardinelli (March 28, 1922 – June 2, 2001) was an American professional boxer. He was a World Light Heavyweight Champion. He took the ring-name Joey Maxim from the Maxim gun, the world's first self-acting machine gun, based on his ability to rapidly throw a large number of left jabs."(Wikipedia) Founded in 1913, Illustrated Current News was a company from Connecticut that made pictorial news posters and distributed them to shops as a marketing tool