Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Winter 2021
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/24/2021
Profiling the international game where a number of countries have traditionally battled for hockey supremacy against the mighty Canadian juggernaut including Sweden, Finland, Russia, Czechoslovakia, the US and others, we offer a diverse and rarely-seen collection of vintage postcards featuring the World Championships and others events. Included, we have approx 65 postcards of various hockey nations from assorted tournaments, spanning from the 1930s to 1970s, with 6 from the 1938 World Championships including Czechoslovakia, 8 from the 1947 World Championships including the US, Czechoslovakia and Sweden, 1 from the 1932 Olympics in Lake Placid, 3 from the 1936 Olympics, 9 postcards from 1964 including Sweden and Team USA, 3 Praha player postcards, 3 different Czech postcards, 7 different Polish, and others. Also included, we have 48 misc postcards from a number of nations, a set of 21 Russian postcards featuring assorted athletes from the late-1970s in it’s original sleeve, 5 Jaapalloilu hockey player cards, 11 Czechoslovakian mini hockey stickers from the 1930s, a 1983-84 USSR National Team photo set of 24 including Tretiak with the original sleeve (6” x 7 ½”), a “Vista Screen” 3D viewer with the original box and hockey image, three different Heineken hockey coaster sets (two are complete at 10, one has 5), 12 first-day covers for a number of European hockey events including the 1979 World Championships, 1972 Sapparo Olympics, 1979 and 1984 Izvestia tournaments and more. The majority of the postcards show moderate handing wear, with some heavier wear to the earlier specimens.
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