Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction Winter 2023
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/28/2023
Produced and released in an era when cards containing pieces of memorabilia worn or used by the featured player were becoming the ultimate chase cards among collectors, those picturing the game’s biggest stars desired coveted that much more. Offered here, is this collection of six (6) cards released as part of Be A Player’s 2001-02 Ultimate Memorabilia release, all featuring Wayne Gretzky and all having been graded by Beckett. All sporting swatches of jerseys previously worn by the game’s greatest played embedded into each card bringing you that much closer to the history of the sport, one of the included examples also features Gretzky’s only true comparable, Mario Lemieux, alongside him with a piece of his jersey also observed. Made up of two different versions of Nameplates releases numbered out of “50/50” and “1/40” respectively, examples for the Goal Scoring Leaders (“19/40”), Stanley Cup Winners (“12/50”), All-Star History (“29/40”) and Retro-Active Trophies (“18/25”) make up the rest of the group. All having been inspected and encapsulated by Beckett, four of the six cards sport marks of MINT 9 with the other two a NM-MT+ 8.5 and NM-MT 8 respectively. The subgrades, centering, edges, corners and surface are also all displayed on the label with grades ranging between 8 and 9.5. All the holders remain in good condition with just a small handful of scratches and scuffs seen over both sides of each holder.
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