The Elmer Lach Auction - October 2006
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/24/2006
Neat lot featuring Hall of Fame player, coach, manager and innovator Art Ross is highlighted by an August 8, 1947 letter on cool Boston Bruins letterhead, informing one Lloyd Durham of Port Arthur on the procedures to take to report to training camp in St. Catharines. Signed nicely in fine fountain pen, the letter, with its original mailing envelope, is joined by Durham’s birth certificate and an agreement he signed in 1944 with the AHL St. Louis Flyers. A photo of Ross with Lynn Patrick and a 1940 wire photo of Ross checking out a skate with steel mesh protection, designed by Ross to curb the wave of foot and ankle injuries but which obviously didn’t “catch on”, complete the lot. After an exceptional life in hockey, Ross left us in 1964.
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