Historical Hockey and Sports Memorabilia Auction June 2023
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/27/2023
Hailing from years that saw the Chicago Black Hawks win the only Stanley Cup of the Original Six era that wasn’t captured by Toronto, Montreal or Detroit and the first of three straight Stanley Cup championships for the Toronto Maple Leafs, offered here are these starter sets of 1960-61 and 1961-62 Topps hockey cards. Totalling 104 cards in total, the 1960-61 release includes 43 of the 66 cards that make up the set while the 1961-62 set is found to include 61 of the set’s 66 cards and are the nicer offerings out of the two sets condition wise. Though appearing to have most of the cards in the 1961-62 set in a grade range of VG to VG-EX with the 1960-61’s worse off at mostly F to GD, the cards all fall to a low-grade range because of the fact that they all have glue or glue/paper residue on the reverses while some also show tape marks and small stains as well as surface wear and creases that are commonly seen throughout the 1960-61 specimens. Despite the low-grades that are observed, the lot does include key cards of 2-Green, 4-Smith, 8-Bucyk, 18-Stapleton, 29-Hull, 32-Hall, 36-Mikita, 45-Harvey, 50-Worsley, 60-Ratelle, 62-Gilbert and 66-Checklist from the 1961-62 set and 1-Patrick, 7-Shack, 11-Bucyk, 19-Vezina, 20-Shore, 25-Hall, 32-Gardiner, 36-Worsley, 45-Bathgate, 46-Taylor, 47-Clancy and 58-Hull from the 1960-61 set. For the rest of the cards, the 1961-62 set is missing just those of 2-Cahan, 54-Prentice, 59-Hampson, 61-LeBrun and 63-NY Rangers while the 1960-61 assembly lacks cards 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 14-Mikita RC, 15, 23, 27, 29, 33, 35, 37, 38, 42, 44, 48, 50, 51, 53, 54, 59 and 60. Cool vintage carboard from the NHL’s golden era of the Original Six.
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