Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction February 2025
Vintage puck enthusiasts will be tempted by this scarce Art Ross Tyer puck with "Andover, Mass." printed on the bottom of its round rubberized orange logo. The earliest NHL Art Ross game pucks had the Andover notation on their octagonal logos and "Andover" was replaced by "Buffalo NY USA" in the 1940s. This puck, however, has the patent number, unlike the earlier Andover octagonal crest puck. These "Andover" round crest pucks were used as an NHL practice puck in the late-1950s and early-1960s while the Eastern Professional Hockey League used it as its game puck during that era. The puck has a number of chips on the edges, numerous cuts and scratches and some wear to the logo with all text on it remaining easily legible. Hailing from the personal collection of Frank Brown, a Classic Auctions LOA will accompany the piece.
Publishing his first paid hockey article in a New York Rangers game program in 1970 that earned him a total of fifty ($50) dollars, from there, Frank Brown began his career as a journalist for The Associated Press, typically covering the Montreal Canadiens. Under the leadership of Stan Fischler, Brown stated he learned the "courage of my convictions" after being handed Gordie Howe's phone number. Moving on to the New York Daily News in 1980, where he would remain until 1998, when he joined the National Hockey League as a communication executive, a position he would hold with the league until his retirement in 2018. He was awarded the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award by the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2019.
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