Historical Hockey Memorabilia Auction Winter 2020
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/26/2020
Absolutely mammoth in size and ready to provide one lucky collector with HOURS of amusement, this huge Wayne Gretzky lot features endless reading material, with a few rarely seen specimens present and accounted for. With the collection housed in 10 large boxes, first, we have approx 80 misc. publications including magazines and hobby guides, with titles such as Sport, Macleans, Beckett, Inside Sports and others, with a number of classic Sports Illustrated covers included, highlighted by copies of The Stanley Cup – 100 Years of Hockey (still sealed with Stanley Cup centennial patch), a 1987 Ontario TV guide with Gretzky 1987 Canada Cup colour cover (rarely seen), Alberta Report magazine from May 28, 1984 with Wayne and the Oilers hoisting the Cup, and others. This is followed by 27 guides and record books including NHL guides for 1984-85, 1985-86, 1987-88 and 1988-89 and Hockey News Yearbooks for 1981, 1983, 1984 and 1987. Approx 70 hard and soft cover books are next, with highlights to include The Hockey News’ Total Gretzky, Wayne Gretzky: Countdown to Immortality, Gretzky – An Autobiography with Rick Reilly and others. Rounding out the lot, we have approx 76 newsprint publications/newspapers including examples from The Hockey News, Sporting News, SCD and others, 6 sticker albums including 1982 OPC complete (heavy wear), 6 misc. calendars, approx 50 single page ads culled from magazines including for Mr Big, 7-Up, Titan and others. Additional highlights within this huge lot include 2 different menus for Wayne’s Toronto restaurant, 8 4” x 6” photos that appear to show Wayne and Janet exiting the church after their marriage ceremony in 1988, and copies of Playboy magazine from April, 1985 (Gretzky interview) and March, 1987 (Janet Jones cover/posing). The majority of the items in this lot show light to moderate wear from handling and use, with the odd specimen in low grade. We should also note that due to the size and weight of the lot, shipping may be substantial.
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