Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Spring 2019
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/18/2019
Intriguing encapsulated group featuring Canada's ball teams is led chronologically by a first-year Expos 1969 Topps card of Rusty Staub, graded NM-MT 8 by PSA, the firm responsible for examining the entire stash. Staub and Claude Raymond Topps cards from 1970 also merited NM-MT 8 status, while early Expos' star Coco Laboy looks fabulous on a GEM MT 10 Kellogg's 3-D card from the same year. Also cool are slabbed Expos team cards, most of them Topps issues and including '70 #509 (NM-MT 8), '71 #674 (NM-MT 8) and '76 #216 (NM-MT+ 8.5), while a '78 O-Pee-Chee #207 entry is a MINT 9, the same as '80 and '81 Topps versions. Two Topps cards from 1972 are NM-MT 8s; 11-Ron Hunt and 134-Carl Morton, with 58-Ernie McAnally at NM 7 (ST). An O-Pee-Chee rep from 1976 is 571-Don Demola at NM-MT+ 8.5, followed by MINT 9 '77 OPCs of 90-Jose Morales, 153-Steve Rogers and 252-Earl Williams. Completing the Expos lineup is an '80 OPC 347-Staub card at MINT 9. .....The Blue Jays' contingent boasts nine MINT 9 individual cards; '78 OPC 85-Dave Lemanczyk and then all Topps. From '78 are 144-Jesse Jefferson, 196-Bob Bailor, 241-Pete Vukovich and 498-Jim Clancy RC, followed by '79 36-Alan Ashby and 380-John Mayberry, '81 467-Dave Stieb and '85 193-Jimmy Key RC. Topps Blue Jays team cards are also present and include '79 #282 at NM-MT 8 and then MINT 9 copies from '80 and '81. Nifty stuff, with all PSA holders well cared for and without any condition issues.
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