A Century of Memories Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/8/2009
Remembered as a Toronto Maple Leafs legend, Frank "King" Clancy left quite a legacy in Ottawa as a member of the original edition of the Senators. This framed display features an original Clancy autograph mounted in a 21" x 17" plain wood frame and presented beneath his original 1930 La Presse newspaper color picture. The Hall of Fame defenceman is pictured in his Ottawa Senators uniform featuring alternating red, black and white hoops on the distinctive "barber pole" jersey and socks. Clancy, who was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1958, had already won two Stanley Cups with the Senators when this color picture appeared in the January 11, 1930 edition of La Presse as part of the French language Montreal daily's ongoing series of premium hockey star photos published in the late 1920s and early 1930s. This fully intact original Clancy La Presse photo is displayed within a white matte. Clancy's original blank ink signature is presented as a cut autograph in small cutout beneath the vintage picture. Loaned to Toronto when the Senators suspended operations for the 1931-32 season, Clancy added another Cup to his collection that season beginning a bond with the Maple Leafs organization that would endure through his death in 1986 and continues to this day.
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