Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction March 2010
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/16/2010
The Parkhurst company's follow-up to its inaugural and landmark 1951-52 hockey card release, this particular '52-53 issue is from the original owner, who placed his boyhood treasures in the "Parkies Photo Folio" album that he had sent away for. We were tempted to leave it in "found" condition but knew you would want to know about the grades of the key cards in the set, so we've removed them to get a better look. Most have at least a corner or other crease from having been placed in the album, with at times a faint outline or two at the corner(s) from the pages that held them. Gordie Howe is "Good", with #1-Maurice Richard nicely centered and one of the nicer cards at VG or close to it (one corner "back" crease & indentations). Sawchuk is G-VG (one horizontal crease, back stain), with Horton RC at G-VG (three light creases only visible on the back), Armstrong RC, Geoffrion (miscut) and Harvey VG or close, and Moore RC F-G. We suspect the majority of the remaining cards to mirror the aforementioned group, although we can spot many nice crease-free, clean surfaces. It'll be your decision to remove the cards or not from their pages and some may prefer to simply leave them the way they are. Kind of neat the thought of being only the second owner of them! The original owner's name is penned to the album's cover and he also colored-in part of the Maple Leaf player. Neat!
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