Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Fall 2013
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/5/2013
The original signatures of deceased HOFers Aurele Joliat, Toe Blake and Maurice Richard are featured on detached pages from this Montreal Canadiens 75th anniversary Dream Team program. Joliat placed a huge ballpoint signature below his illustration on a page with Guy Lafleur's original signature. The Rocket signed his portrait page in black ink and Blake signed his in blue ballpoint. Beliveau has signed in blue ink on his portrait page on the front of a detached four-page section. Henri Richard, Cournoyer and Laperriere are among 10 signatures inside the front cover of the program which is not complete and exhibits plenty of handling. Maurice Richard has dedicated his signature “to Gilles” in French on one of four snapshots included on a black scrapbook album page included.
11-time Stanley Cup champion Henri Richard placed a big black ink autograph among the 10 signatures inside the front cover. Fellow HOFers Jacques Laperriere and Yvan Cournoyer have signed in blue ballpoint along with Dollard St-Laurent, Claude Ruel, Phil Goyette, Rejean Houle, Pierre Mondou, Chris Nilan and Mario Tremblay.
Canadiens president Ronald Corey signed on the reverse of the Joliat-Lafleur signed page.
There is a snapshot attached to the reverse of the signed Blake page.
A Montreal Forum private box ticket to the Canadiens’ 1975 New Year’s Eve game against the Red Army team is covered with clear tape strips that attach it to one of the detached program pages. There are various “L’Association des amis de Sylvie et Pierre” stickers applied to the program, including three on the cover and tape remants throughout the program and detached pages.
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