A Century of Memories Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/8/2009
Twenty-nine years before Bobby Orr soared through the air after clinching the Stanley Cup for the Boston Bruins, another young defenceman was famously captured in full flight on film in the act of delivering a Cup-winning overtime goal. Bill Barilko scored on Montreal's Gerry McNeil in the fifth game of the 1951 Stanley Cup final to give the Toronto Maple Leafs their fifth Cup in seven years. This fantastic framed display features individual autographs of all of the principals pictured in the historic photograph of the goal, including one from the ill-fated Barilko, whose plane went missing on a fishing trip that summer. A four-time Stanley Cup champion at the age of 24, Barilko was presumed dead, a fate that was only confirmed after his body was found when the plane's wreckage was finally discovered in 1962. Barilko's autograph appears in pencil on a yellowed piece of cut paper displayed in one of seven 1 1/2" x 3" openings in the textured white matte that anchors individual signatures from all of the Canadiens and Maple Leafs players that appear in the iconic photo: Maurice Richard, Howie Meeker, Tom Johnson, McNeil, Butch Bouchard and Cal Gardner. Also included in the display are the Parkhurst card of the goal from the seminal 1951 set, and a color illustration of the goal that mirrors the photo. This remarkable display is tastefully presented in a 21" x 17" simple wood frame.
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