Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction February 2025
Madison Square Garden has existed in different iterations and at different locations in Manhattan. While the current MSG sits atop Penn Station not far from the Empire State Building, its predecessor, the third Madison Square Garden, was located uptown, west of Eighth Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets. This trio of items nicely spans its existence and features a Rangers program from their 1926-27 inaugural season, a slab from a wood chair from the old Madison Square Garden, which opened in 1925 to host the NHL’s New York Americans, and closed in 1968, as witnessed by the holder of the February 11 ticket stub from the Rangers last game there. The 14” x 2 ½” wood seat slat is a shade under 1” thick and has “Madison Square Garden 12/15/25 to 2/11/68” roughly etched on top. The bottom edge has chips missing surrounding the pre-existing holes where it was held in place where it sat in the grand old arena.The 1926-27 season Madison Square Garden NHL official program pictures the Americans logo and an Americans player on the cover but a Rangers team picture, home and road schedules and player bios are featured inside along with the Americans team picture, schedules and bios. The centerfold page featuring two ads is loose but present, and the program exhibits handling and creases not unexpected from a document nearly a century old. Rounding out this grouping is a roughly 2” x 2” ticket stub from the Rangers final game at the old Madison Square Garden, with torn edges, lots of aging and wear, that displays the date of the game.
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