A prize-fighter’s belt with Australian associations was recently discovered in London. The imposing silver-gilt belt had been presented to the Englishman, James Mace (1831 – 1910), often called ‘the father of boxing’. The Australian associations, as initially shown by the belt’s inscriptions, were that the Englishman, ‘Jem’ Mace, the world champion, was presented with the belt ‘by his Australian friends and admirers’ in September 1881.

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