Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction Spring 2025
Playing in over 1,750 NHL games throughout his Hall of Fame career, Mark Messier spent 838 regular season and 166 playoff games in an Edmonton Oilers sweater. An NHL All-Star in 8 of his dozen seasons in Alberta, The Moose best exemplified the combination of rugged physical play with finesse goal scoring. From his final season representing the mighty oil drop, where he scored 64 points in 53 games, we offer a photo-matched pair of gloves worn by Messier in 1990-91 (just the left glove is photo-matched).
CCM Pro-Gard M-HG115 models in Edmonton colour scheme, with slightly differing "Supra" logos on each glove, embroidered Oilers crests have been sewn to each wrist cuff. Both gloves sport reinforced Jofa leather palms, with the right glove having circular leather repairs to the palm of the glove which is consistent with team repairs done to game-used gloves in that era by the Oilers. A small "II" is handwritten on the palm of the left glove, while the right glove has a similar but not quite decipherable, handwritten "II" or large "I" on the palm of the glove in the same area as it is placed on the left glove. Game-wear includes rubbing, marks and surface wear to the leather components and cloth material, with a few dark marks also present on the wrist guards. There is a small hole beneath the middle finger on the palm of the left glove, and larger holes between the pinky, ring and middle fingers on the right glove as well as a hole on the thumb.
As mentioned, all of the photo-matches are to the left glove, and we should note that in three of the five photo-matches you can clearly see that Messier is NOT wearing the right glove included in this pair. Although the gloves are somewhat of a mismatched pair with the aforementioned "Supra" logos differing from one another on the wrist guards of the gloves, it is possible they were worn together at some point as evidenced by the photo-match images which are clearly showing Messier using mismatched gloves together. Getty Images #483836502 (January 15th 1991) and #148419750 (January 17th 1991) have both been matched to the long black mark through the CCM logo on the cuff (Messier is not wearing the same right glove in these images). Additionally, Getty Image #1796916062 (January 12th 1991) has been matched to the long black mark through the CCM logo on the cuff (we do not see the other glove in this image). Lastly, two additional photo-matches from 1990-91, with digital images to be included, have been matched to the long black mark through the CCM logo on the cuff (Messier is not wearing the same right glove in one image, while we cannot see the glove in the other image). An LOA from MeiGray will accompany along with a COR.
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