A Victorian boxing lithograph promoting Jem Mace's £1,000 challenge to John Heenan & Tom Sayers at Owen Swifts, London, 13th April 1862, published by W.E. Wright & Sons, London, 36 by 28.5cm., 14 by 11 1/2in., in a modern frame, glazed It would appear that the challenge of Mace, who was crowned champion in 1861, was not taken up by either Sayers or the American Champion Heenan who had fought out a famous 42 round bare knuckle heavyweight world championship stalemate in 1860.