Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction March 2010
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/16/2010
We've handled some mighty interesting Lord Stanley pieces in the past, but this one tickles our fancy to new heights! Penned way back in 1873, some 15 years before Stanley arrived in Canada as the Dominion's Governor General, the January 24th one-page note reads "Dear Mr. Hardy, I shall take much pleasure in accepting your kind invitation to dinner on the 5th of February. I have been away from home, & your note was here, so ? forgive me for not having answered sooner. Yours very truly, Fred Stanley." Wow - not only a handwritten letter, but with a signature that can be considered right up there as the rarest of Stanley sigs. Measuring approximately 4-1/2" by 7", the ancient letterhead has red letters up by the date that read "Witherslack, Grange over Sands, Lancashire." The eventual donator of hockey's most coveted award, Stanley would have been in his early thirties at the time and a Conservative Member of the British Parliament (1865-1886). Outstanding!
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