Coat of arms of Tom Cribb, English bare-knuckle boxer 1781-1848. The supporters are Tom Cribb in laurel crown and vanquished boxer ex-slave Tom Molyneux kneeling. The crest is the arms of Bristol, the four quarters show the British lion, the boxing bout, a coal-barge and a beaver with the American flag. Copperplate engraving after a design by Covent Garden comedian John Emery from The Sporting Magazine, or Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of the Turf and the Chace, John Wheble, London, 1812.

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